Holiday Inspiration, Purple Onion Designs

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!

I plan on hosting an online class in 2023 all about Distress Watercolor Pencils! If you want to be sure to be notified when registration opens, make sure you are signed up for my email newsletter! Subscribe 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