This one was super easy and really relaxing. It’s also a great way to use up a lot of scraps. I have simply torn strips of pattern paper and then adhered them to the card, stacking them on top of each other. I added in the ‘ho, ho, ho’ in the center parts as the sentiment and didn’t use any stamps at all. The ho, ho, ho lettering is actually part of some pattern paper in the Basic Grey Evergreen collection.
This card design, I think I’ve done something similar last Christmas using the Basic Grey Evergreen papers and stamping the Penny Black Leaping Deer onto the yellow pattern paper. I don’t mind this card but I wasn’t completely satisfied with this one. I decided to gift this card to my mother as she loves me even though I’m not perfect, so I think it’ll be the same for the card. I’ll have to try and do something super creative with the deer stamp next year.
I used up some scraps of the Basic Grey Evergreen papers, in green, red and yellow. Adhering them on top of each other. I stamped HohoHo using the Penny Black Whoooos Wishing stamp set in green Memento ink. I wrapped some craft twine around the top of the card and tied a loop and I finished the card off by placing a red rhinestone on the deer’s nose to turn it into Rudolf.
This was a very simple card design that I’ve seen around on Pinterest and I wanted to give it a try myself and I thought it be a good way to use up some more scraps. I’m all about getting the most out of my supplies; waste not want not! (haha but I always want more supplies ^-^)
I’ve simply torn one red piece of paper for the trunk or pot and torn several pieces in varying lengths in green pattern paper. I’ve stamped ‘Merry Christmas’ using the Simon Says Stamps Christmas Sentiments set which is very affordable and is under $10. I stamped it using red Memento ink. And I topped the tree off with a gold star which is a left over embellishment from the very first set of christmas cards I made about… I think 4 years ago now. I adhered it using glossy accents as it was what I had available and it did the trick.
This Christmas card I made for my older brother so I didn’t want to make a card that was super cutesy. I stuck with the more traditional Christmas colours of green and red using Basic Grey’s Evergreen papers from a 6×6 paper pad. I divided them and added a bit of elegance with some gold washi tape and tied a gold bow over the washi tape. To finish it off I simply added the numbers 2 & 5 from the Basic Grey Evergreen letters & numbers pack to signify the 25th, Christmas Day. It was very easy and quick to put together but I think a great result.
This Christmas card is probably my favourite of the season and was the most enjoyable to make. I was so proud of it. I made it for a friend that has become very dear and who I share many similar interests with, such as card-making and jigsaw puzzling.
In the Lawn Fawn Snow Days 6×6 Paper Pack there is a pattern paper that has pattern stripes made up from the individual pattern papers. When I first saw it, I didn’t think I would actually use that paper for anything because it’s so busy but I found I liked the four stripes seen pictured and so I cut them from the other stripes to use as a border piece on the card.
I then found a coordinating pattern paper (also from the Snow Day paper pack) and I liked how it was the same jade green as the snow flake pattern stripe and has smaller snow dots on it. I think it makes it flow nicely.
So going with the snow flake theme of the card I die cut three snow flakes from white card stock using the Simon Says Stamp Kate Snow Flake Craft Die which is very affordable at only $6.99USD (I love cheap things). And it’s so cute! I think it’s very versatile. I guess I’m lucky living in Australia as Christmas time is actually summer, so I’ll be able to cheat and use these dies again for actual ‘winter wishes’ cards in June and July.
I only put foam squares on one of the snow flakes. I placed the other two (the top and the bottom one) directly onto the pattern paper. I tried to arrange them in a way that was pleasing to the eye. The striped pattern paper on the left side is also raised with foam squares so I was able to tuck the bottom snow flake partially under the paper.
I was really happy with the look of this and as it had such a pretty delicate look with the snow flakes on the right-hand side I didn’t want to cover it up with a sentiment too much. I wanted the sentiment to be mostly on the stripes.
With stripes and snow flakes being the continuing theme, I made a tag out of striped pattern paper from the Snow Day paper pack with the same coordinating colours. After punching holes at each corner using the Big Bite 2, I used the Lawn Fawn Peppermint cord to thread through the holes creating the tag handle.
I adhered it to the card askew and placed one of the arms of the raised snowflake over the top of the tag.
I love the ‘Ho ho Ho’ sentiment stamp from Penny Black’s Whoooo’s Wishing Stamp Set and I thought the delicate italic/cursive ‘ho’ would tie in nicely with the delicate snow flakes. I used the Memento Dew Drop inks ‘Lady Bug’, ‘Cottage Ivy’ and ‘Teal Zeal’ on white card stock to stamp the sentiment. I overlaid the ‘Teal Zeal’ and ‘Cottage Ivy’ to try and get a colour closer to the jade green of the pattern papers. Then I adhered that on top of the tag.
I was really happy with the final result and my friend was really pleased when I presented it to her. I enjoy the crafting get-togethers with my friend a lot and I hope to have another real soon in the new year.
This is another card I made before starting my blog so I don’t have the photos during construction.This one I made with my favourite uncle in mind. I really liked the ‘Holly Jolly’ print pattern paper in the Basic Grey Evergreen 6 x 6 paper pack and decided on using that.
Then I picked out some coordinating paper, a plain blue and an angled stripe pattern. All the colours go together perfectly. Basic Grey’s Evergreen series is obviously very well thought out with many combinations to use with all papers coordinating beautifully.
I decided early on to use the blue paper as a stripe to separate the bolder prints of the Holly Jolly and the stripes. It looked okay but I wanted to have a little more. So I stamped ‘Season’s Greetings’ either end of the blue stripe in red and green memento ink. There was enough of a gap in the middle of the two stamped sentiments to put a mistletoe stamp. The mistletoe stamp is a part of the Penny Black’s Whooo’s Wishing stamp set.
To stamp it, as the berries and leaves are one whole stamp, I had to first cover the berries with washi tape, then add the green ink to the leaves, then remove the washi tape and then finally stamp it down. I had to repeat this process with the berries. First covering the leaves with washi tape, then adding the red ink to the berries, then removing the washi tape, and then finally stamping it down. It took me a couple goes to get it right and I practiced first on a separate piece of scrap paper. I was happy with the results.
It still didn’t look completely finished. So I used some brown hemp cord to create a border top and bottom to the blue paper. And I finished with a little brown cord bow at the top corner with the scrap piece of cord I had left from the borders.
Overall, I was quite pleased with the results and process of making this card. This card has been posted to my uncle and I’m excited to hear from him to find how he liked the card.
I made this Christmas card before I started my blog so didn’t think to take pictures of it in progress. I made this and two others at a friend’s house. We got together to make a few Christmas cards together.
I made this one for my father.
I used the papers from the Basic Grey Evergreen 6 x 6 paper pack. I chose out the pretty pattern paper with the red birds and the leaves first. But I didn’t want to use it as the entire background. I wanted to try a vertical stripe effect so I chose the green pattern paper as the background with the bird pattern paper as a stripe in the middle on top.
Now I was at a loss. It took me quite a while to brainstorm that I would put a lighter pattern paper in the middle of the bird pattern paper with a sentiment. But it took me even longer to to think of using the ‘Ho ho Ho’ sentiment stamp from Penny Black’s Whoooo’s Wishing stamp set and to use it in an alternating pattern of red and green.
I was pleasantly surprised with the effect and the results. It was still missing a little something, so I finished it off with some hemp cord by tying a couple bows top and bottom of the sentiment piece.
I’m really happy with the result and it has since been posted to my father and I hope he enjoys the results as well!
I hope this Christmas card inspires you and has given you some ideas for card making of your own.
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