Yes, I'm still making Christmas cards and for this one I've used a lovely die set which has lots of small components to make either a gnome or Santa - you can see which I've chosen this time. I added a tree with star and arranged everything onto a stitched circle die cut with a scattering of snowflakes. The sentiment was stamped and fussy cut.
I have another of my scenic Christmas cards to share today even though with the sun shining it certainly doesn't look very Christmassy outside. Mind you it was very foggy earlier on this morning - very Autumnal and the evenings are drawing in too as this year just whizzes by. The snows-cape was die cut and the houses, car and trees were stamped, coloured using alcohol pens and die cut. The sentiment was taken from a book of stickers.
Sky - DSP from Stampin' Up
Houses, trees etc - also Stampin' Up Coming Home set (retired)
Words - sticker book by Clarity
I decided to make a floral card as a break from the Christmas flurry of late. The flowers have been stamped (two-step style) and die cut before arranging them onto an embossed and inked oval, backed with die cut shapes and a piece of patterned paper from my oddments box.
Dies and stamps from Colour and Contour set Stampin' Up
I treated myself to another class in the post from the lovely Jenny - see her blog HERE. I've made up the three cards and will probably put the gift box together later on. Two of the cards were only A6 size so I've adapted them slightly to make them a bit larger. Obviously we can't always purchase every new stamp and die set, tempting though they are, so having a class like this is an opportunity to use some lovely Stampin' Up products without adding even more products to the crafty stash. That's another three cards for the Christmas box.
Can't seem to get away from making Christmas cards and of course the tidy up hasn't really happened either 😉😉. A couple of penguins at play in the snow today.
I decided to have a bit of a tidy up and to take a break from making Christmas cards, at least for a short while, but you know how it is. I kept coming across bits and pieces which I'd maybe die cut and not used, papers and card just crying out to be used up and also stamps and/or dies which I'd taken out to use because there were ideas buzzing around in my head. The result is that I now have a few more Christmas cards to pop into my box and the desk remains in a state of 'Christmas Chaos'. Too hot for tidying today as the heatwave seems to have returned - any excuse
The die used on these two cards was one which I won in one of the grand Christmas prize draws on Pixie's Playground Challenge - must have been about three years ago I think and I'm ashamed to say when it arrived (just after Christmas) I put it away ready to use for the following year's cards but somehow that didn't happen. Shame really because it is a super one to use and quite fun - at least it has had two airings so far this year. It would be a good one to use for 'batch-baking' although that is something I very rarely do. More little white 'dots' saved from the first one (see my previous post) 🤣
There is another challenge this time in the Playground for Ruby's Memory - read all about it by following the link and maybe have a go to be in with a chance of winning some great Halloween goodies. I imagine pretty well every card maker will have a supply of 'snippets' to use - we can't bear to throw out even the smallest pieces!! For my card I've cut into a sheet of design paper for the main background and used a card blank but everything else came from my snippets mountain, even down to the tiny dots used as flower centres. I have some dies which cut out rows of tiny holes around shapes and I save all the tiny dots and store them in small zip-lock style polybags - sad or what but it is a sort of compulsion which some of you will understand😉😉. I promise you these are the smallest pieces which I 'save'!!The white circle was embossed with 'falling snow' before adding the wreath and the tiny flowers. Snippet of a different patterned paper was placed behind the circle and I've added a die cut bow and star. No greeting on the outside of this card because it says 'Christmas' I think.
Wreath - die from Tonic (just the leaves)
Flowers - Tiny flowers dies from John Next Door
Bow and Star - dies from a magazine freebie set (not recent)
Embossing - Falling Snow folder from Stampin' Up
