I really love making Christmas cards and it doesn't matter how much Christmas stash I have I can't resist adding to my collection. All the stamps used to make this Christmas card were bought on the wonderful Facebook group Craft Declutter. In theory you clear out the stash you no longer want and gain some money. In practice you sell one or two things and actually buy loads, but it is fun.
Today's Christmas card is a gatefold one and it was quite hard to take a decent photo of as it just wouldn't lie flat. Here's another view of the card stood up...
I've even stamped the inner - getting really carried away these days.
Materials used...
- Black card and silver grey paper
- Indigo Blu snowflake border and sentiment stamp
- Wild Rose Studio clear snowflake stamp
- Snippets of black and silver mirri card for matting and layering
- Circle and scalloped edge die
- Clear gem stones
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Thank you so much for looking and commenting. It was fantastic to see two new followers. Welcome to you both. Hope you like today's crafting and I will be popping over to your blog to see what you have been creating too.
Ann xxx
This is the last of the cards made for my friends special birthday. This one is from me! It was started at a class I went to run by Mel Heaton - what a lovely lady - we had a great time creating with her.
There was a lot of measuring and matting and layering to do so a lot of the card had to be finished off at home, but I think it was well worth the extra time.
Pull the tag at the top and this is what happens...
Cool eh? I even added a back to the card so that the clever mechanism was covered up and also the card was able to be displayed standing up.
Just need to make a box now and jobs a good un!
Materials...
- mostly items used were provided by Mel Heaton at the class. The papers were absolutely gorgeous as were the butterfly stamps but I can't remember the make of either. I should have wrote things down, but I was too busy crafting.
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Have a fun day whatever you are up to.
Ann xxx
I can't take full credit for this design as I spotted the idea in this month's Simply Cards and Papercraft magazine. I just love the idea of the owl peeping out of the the hole in the tree. It's another card for my friend who is celebrating a special birthday this week. I always make the cards for my daughters to send as well as myself. This is the last owl card for a little while though.
Materials ...
- Owl stamp from a clear set of stamps by Woodware
- Sentiment by Hero Arts
- Letters and bunting - clear stamps by Inkydoodles
- Coloured using Promarkers
- Wood grain paper from stash - plus orange and brown card stock and scalloped edge A5 card blank
- old gold brads and gold twine to hang the buntin
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