Card Making

Christmas is here!!!

Finally we enter December and I am officially permitted to sing Christmas songs, write Christmas cards and say Merry Christmas to everyone i meet! And guess what…wE HaVE SnOW!! yeay!! Although I am under strict instructions that Pregnant ladies are NOT allowed to have fun in the snow, so I just have to enjoy the snow by looking longingly through a window. Anyway, we are FAR too busy to worry about the snow. The final countdown has begun as we should be moving into our new house next week. Of course, this means that my life has been filled with the dreaded boxes! Just look at my poor craft room….

But never fear, I have a project to share today: some fun Christmas cards to share with you. Well, really they are more like gift cards, because they are dinky and small. I’ve made a set of 8, because I had a selection of stamps that would work well with the design and plus you always need gift cards don’t ya!

The cards themselves I made using my scalloped rectangle nestabilities, by folding a piece of card, then laying the fold just within the die so some of the fold remained in tact. It’s not as noticable because I have covered the front with patterned paper which overhangs the folded edge a fraction to complete the scalloped edge. So theres a little tip on how to make your own scalloped edge folded cards. 🙂

For the papers I actually used the Lil’ Man collection from Cosmo Cricket, and although these aren’t Christmas themed, I thought they worked really well as they kinda have a festive colour theme.

After stamping and colouring the festive images, I decided that I wanted to make the topper into little baubles, so I used some silver cord from meiflower and punched a flower from silver paper using a punch. I cut the flower in half and folded it to make a triangular shape to ressemble the silver fixture on a bauble. I love the finished look!

Here’s some more photos for you to enjoy!

But before you rush off, don’t forget that our competition sponsored by Craftwork Cards closes tonight at midnight! That means you still have a chance to be in with a win. You can win up to £100 worth of craft goodies, and there will be three winners in total – check out the details here or click on picture below to go to the post! Competition is now closed – thanks for entering!

I’m so excited to pick the winners, it’ll be like Christmas has come early to a lucky few!! I also want to say a HUGE thank you to Craftwork cards for sponsoring this giveaway, you guys are awesome! Oh, and be sure to check out the Craftwork Cards blog for Daily December Deals – you’ll be sure to pick up a few bargains!

Aren’t mittens awesome! And I especially love it when I see a little kid with a pair of mittens that has the string that goes up one coat sleeve and down the other- i can’t wait until our little one is big enough to have mittens!

So it was no surprise that I fell in love with this mittens stamp from my October Unity Kit of the Month. So very cute! I stamped and embossed the image onto a piece of white card, and ran it through the cuttlebug with my nesties to create a circular topper, and then used the scalloped circle to mount this onto the front flap of the card, which I had trimmed down a little. I did this because I wanted the inside to have some colour, so I have used a piece of paper from the Cosmo Cricket Lil Man collection to add some festive stripes!

Because I wanted a warm feel to the card, I lightly added some tea dye distress inks to the background of the circle, and then as an after thought stamped a music background stamp over the top very lightly. You can hardly see it, its quite subtle in the photograph, but I think it made a big difference to the card in real life.

Instead of just colouring in the mittens, I embossed another set of mittens onto pattern paper and layered these on top, and the colour contrast really made the mittens pop! I wish I had mittens this colour!!

To finish the card, all that I needed to do was emboss a greeting onto the pattern paper, and for this I chose to use white embossing powder, and thankfully it looks great especially as it coordinates with the white stitching.

I reckon I need to go buy myself some mittens now! I guess Unity has inspired me in more ways than one yet again!

Thanks for stopping by

Also, I wanted to say a HUGE congratulations to Elizabeth Kartchner and Stephanie Howell who between them have blessed our world with three little angels! Lola Marie, Lucy and Cate – we can’t wait to see you on many a scrapbook layout to come!