World Of Michael Trent: 2025 Card 4 | Woodblock Wednesday | Use Your Stash

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

2025 Card 4 | Woodblock Wednesday | Use Your Stash | Christmas Card Idea

Hello everyone and welcome to my first Woodblock Wednesday post of 2025. This is the day of the week in which we try to set aside some time during the day to use some woodblock stamps that may not have been used in some time or, maybe, have never been used.

For today's card, I pulled 2 VERY old woodblock stamps out of my stash: a snowy branch with a world ornament hanging off it - from Viva Las Vegas Stamps. I searched high and low on their site for the stamp but could not find it. I assume it's been retired.

The other stamp is called Peace Bird (1697-H) from Rubber Soul - from 2008 and also long retired. I remember buying both of these stamps from The Ink Pad in NYC (closed) just to make today's card. It only took me 17 years.

I started by stamping the snowy branch with the ornament on a piece of white cardstock using Onyx Black Versafine Ink and Mermaid Lagoon from Ranger. White the inks were still wet I used clear embossing powder to emboss the image.

Next, I stamped Peace Bird using the Onyx Black Versafine ink and embossed that with clear embossing powder. Then I colored in the image where needed, die-cut it using a stitched rectangle die, and added some glitter glue for the snow, and set it aside to dry.

While that was drying, I made a top-folding A2 card base using red cardstock. I embossed it with the Cross Waves 3D embossing folder from Altenew, and I adhered a piece of stitched white cardstock to the inside.

Once the piece above was dry, I adhered a piece of fun foam to the back, then to the card front. To finish the card off, I printed the "Peace on Earth" sentiment from a Christmas Sentiments digital stamp set I bought from Scrap Flower eStudio on Etsy, layered it on a piece of red cardstock, and then to the card front.