I have some fun holiday inspiration for you with some of the latest Purple Onion Design/Stacey Yacula stamps. I adore these images and have so much fun coloring them, no matter what coloring medium I am using. I mentioned in my Get Cracking on Christmas post from October that I was hanging out with some crafty friends this fall and packed my Distress Watercolor Pencils, Distress Watercolor Cardstock, and these adorable Purple Onion Designs/Stacey Yacula images. I spent the weekend watercoloring away, and then came home and made them into cards. I haven’t had a chance to blog about them until now. Hope you enjoy these fun designs!
If you would like to see some more projects I have created with Distress Watercolor Pencils, you can here. I have an online class all about Distress Watercolor Pencils – see more details here.
For each of these cards, I colored the images on Distress Watercolor Cardstock with Distress Watercolor pencils. Stamping the images with Lawn Fawn Jet Black ink. Since these stamps are unmounted I use the Stamp Mount from Purple Onion Designs in a mini Misti to stamp the images.
I share how I use Purple Onion stamps, how I store them and some tips in this video here
When watercoloring with Distress Watercolor Pencils, I like to use a round paintbrush. Ranger Ink has a great paintbrush set that includes these, or I also like these two brushes from Blick Arts Round #2 and Round #4. I use a collapsable water cup to hold water and of course, a Flour Sack Cloth to dry my brush off, wipe my hands etc.
I fussy cut out all of the images, and my favorite scissors to do this with are Fiskars Spring Action Scissors. I have been using these since college and are my favorite!
As always when I use stencils I use the Make Art Stay-tion and whenever I am ink blending I love to use the Ink Stands to hold my ink pads,
I also glittered all the things on this card. All of them have Prisma Glitter that I added with a Quickie Glue pen. The other fun sparkly supplies I used I will explain per card below.
Very Merry Christmas
For this card, I masked the archway and stamped a snowy background using Lawn Fawn’s Window Scene: Winter stamp set and Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. Along the ground, I used Glossy Accents and sprinkled Distress Rock Candy Dry Glitter. I stamped the sentiment with Versafine Onyx Black ink.
Sweet Holiday Wishes
I was having TOO much fun creating this sweet little gingerbread scene. I lightly ink blended the background with Salvaged Patina and Spun Sugar Distress Ink. I then stenciled Lawn Fawn’s Snowy Sky with Salvaged Patina on the top and a heavier ink application. On the bottom, I stenciled Lawn Fawn’s Cloudy Stencil with a heavier ink application of Spun Sugar. I created the pathway up to the gingerbread house with Glossy Accents and Distress Rock Candy Dry Glitter. I created the snow along the ground with Distress Mica Flakes, and I used Distress Collage Medium for adhesive. For the sentiment, I ink blended a piece of cardstock with Kitsch Flamingo Distress Ink and stamped the sentiment with Versafine Onyx Black ink, I then cut it into word fetti. I ink-blended the edge of the card base with Festive Berries Distress Ink.
Pink Prancer
I pulled out all the pinks for this card! For the background, I used Spun Sugar Distress Oxide Ink and Lawn Fawn’s Snowflake Background Stencils. For the ground, I just ink-blended a solid color of Spun Sugar. When I ink blend with Distress Oxide Inks I like to use an ink blending tool and the domed foam because of their pigment properties.
I added a touch of Sakura Black Glaze pen to the nose of Prancer. I added Distress Mica Flakes to the ground with Distress Collage Medium. I ink-blended the edge of the card base with Picked Raspberry Distress Ink.
Winter Penguin
For this card, I ink blended a background lightly with Salvaged Patina and Wilted Violet Distress Ink, and then stenciled over that with Simon Says Stamps Peace Love Joy stencil with a darker ink application. I trimmed that down and added it to the bottom of the card. On the top, I stamped a few snowflakes from Lawn Fawn’s Penguin Party stamp set in Mermaid Lawn Fawn Ink. I stamped the sentiment on a sentiment banner with Versafine Onyx Black Ink.
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
For this card, I followed the same format as above, only this time I used Festive Berries Distress Ink and Hero Arts Poinsettia Stencil. For the sentiments, I stamped them with Lobster Lawn Fawn Ink.
Hope you love these cards as much as I do, and if you are already done with your holiday cards for this year, no reason why you can’t Get Cracking on Christmas for next year!
Supplies Used:
Supplies I used are linked below. Click on the picture and you will be taken to the product. I use affiliate links when available which means if you make a purchase I get a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you for your support!
 Purple Onion Designs Shop at: SSS | Misc |  Purple Onion Designs, Clear Mounting Stamp Shop at: SSS | Misc |  Lawn Fawn, Penguin Party Shop at: SSS | LF |  Lawn Fawn, Window Scene: Winter Shop at: SSS | LF |
 Lawn Fawn, Everyday Sentiment Banners Shop at: SSS | LF |  Hero Arts, Poinsettia 6×6 Stencil Shop at: HB |  Lawn Fawn, Snowy Sky Stencil Shop at: SSS | LF |  Lawn Fawn, Cloudy Stencil Shop at: SSS | LF |
 Simon Says Stamp, Peace Joy Hope Love Stencil Shop at: SSS |  Lawn Fawn, Snowflake Background Stencils Shop at: SSS | LF |  Lawn Fawn, Outside In Stitched Rectangle Stackables Shop at: SSS | LF |  Distress Watercolor Pencils Bundle Shop at: SSS | R |
 Distress Watercolor Pencils, set 3 Shop at: SSS | R |  Distress Watercolor Pencils, set 2 Shop at: SSS | R |  Distress Watercolor Pencils, set 1 Shop at: SSS | R |  Blick Arts, Master Synthetic Round #4 Shop at: BA |
 Blick Arts, Master Synthetic Round #2 Shop at: BA |  Ranger Paintbrush Set Shop at: SSS | R |  Tsukineko Versafine Onyx Black Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | shurkus |  Flour Sack Cloths Shop at: Misc |
 Faber-Castell, Collapsible Water Cup Shop at: SSS |  Tim Holtz/Tonic 8.5 Guillotine Paper Trimmer Shop at: SSS |  Fiskars Microtip Scissors Shop at: SSS | shurkus |  Ranger Glossy Accents Shop at: SSS | shurkus | R |
 Lawn Fawn Glue Tube Shop at: SSS | shurkus | LF |  Mint Glue Tube Holder Shop at: shurkus |  Scrapbook Adhesives, mixed white foam squares Shop at: shurkus |  Scrapbook Adhesives, White Foam Strips Shop at: shurkus |
 Misti 2.0 Shop at: SSS | LF | HB |  Mini Misti 2.0 Shop at: SSS | LF |  Lawn Fawn, 3.5″ round grip block with grid Shop at: SSS | shurkus | LF |  Wendy Vecchi, 7 inch Stay-tion Shop at: SSS | shurkus | R |
 Wendy Vecchi, Make Art Stay-tion Shop at: SSS | LF | R |  Sakura, Quickie Glue Pen Shop at: SSS | shurkus | LF |  Lawn Fawn Prisma Glitter Shop at: SSS | shurkus | LF |  Sakura Gelly Roll White Gel Pen 08, 3pk Shop at: shurkus |
 Sakura Gelly Roll White Gel Pen 08 Shop at: shurkus |  Sakura Black Glaze Gel Pens Pen 2 Pack 38495 Shop at: SSS | shurkus |  Tombow, Removable Adhesive Tape Runner Shop at: SSS | shurkus |  Therm o Web, Adhesive Eraser Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp, Blender Brushes Shop at: SSS |  Blender Brush Caddie Shop at: shurkus |  4″ Lazy Susan Shop at: Misc |  Scotch, Mounting Putty Shop at: Misc |
 Spellbinders, Best Ever Craft Tape Shop at: SSS | shurkus | Misc |  Trinity Stamps, Tidy Tray Shop at: SSS | TS |  Trinity Stamps, Pickup Stick Tool Shop at: SSS | TS |  The Ink Stand, square Shop at: shurkus |
 Tim Holtz, Spun Sugar Distress Oxide Shop at: SSS | LF | R |  Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Spun Sugar Shop at: SSS | HB | R |  Tim Holtz/Ranger Ink, Kitsch Flamingo Distress Ink Shop at: SSS | HB | R |  Tim Holtz, Picked Raspberry Distress Ink Shop at: SSS | R |
 Tim Holtz, Festive Berries Distress Ink Shop at: SSS | R |  Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Tumbled Glass Shop at: SSS | R |  Tim Holtz, Wilted Violet Distress Ink Shop at: SSS | R |  Distress White Heavystock Shop at: SSS | shurkus | R |
 Tim Holtz, Distress Watercolor Cardstock 8.5 x 11 Shop at: SSS | shurkus | R |  Lawn Fawn, Lobster Dye Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | LF |  Lawn Fawn, Mermaid Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | LF |  Ranger Ink, Mini Domed Ink Blending Foam Shop at: SSS | LF | R |
 Tim Holtz, Distress Glitter Dust Clear Rock Candy Shop at: SSS | shurkus | R |  Tim Holtz, Distress Mica Flakes Shop at: SSS |  Tim Holtz, Distress Collage Medium Shop at: SSS | shurkus | R |  Lawn Fawn Stamp Shammy Shop at: SSS | shurkus | LF |
 Mermaid Mint Shammy Case Shop at: shurkus |  Spellbinders Limited Edition Aqua Platinum Shop at: SB |  Spellbinders Platinum Shop at: SSS | SB |  Klutter Keeper Shop at: shurkus |
 ATG Gun Holster, Mint Shop at: shurkus |
I was so excited to see this line-up of cards with Stacey Yacula’s images from Purple Onion Designs. I love her critters. I’m looking forward to your class on the Distress Watercolor Pencils.
All of the cards are So so cute – will look forward to your class on Tim Holtz watercolor pencils
Thanks for all the inspiration !