Well It’s time I showed some of MY Christmas cards. I’ve been trawling the net for weeks looking at the creations of others and being truly inspired, now I had best show mine before Christmas is a distant memory!
This one I gave to a few special people who came to my classes during the year. I know you can’t tell by this photo, but the Xmas tree has been stamped with White craft ink and heat embossed with the new Iridescent Ice embossing powder. When you angle it in the light, you see all that sparkly goodness!
Here is the one that I sent to family and friends, a simple design where I just let the Stitched Stockings and matching builder punch be the star, adding family names just to personalise it a bit.
This year I treated myself to the Welcome Christmas stamp set, tried out a few different things and here is one of them. My frame has been punched out with the Scallop Trim Border and just for something different for the ladies in my class, it’s been applied around the outside. Not an easy feat round an oval!
I have long wanted to try one of these Festive doors since I saw one years ago in a card magazine. I think I just had to wait until I had a wreath stamp. Any way I quite like how it turned out.
Gone for Garden Green with this fairly simple but I hope effective design.
You can tell I’ve gotten a lot out of this set. This time the wreath and ‘Joy’ are heat embossed in white. I just love that effect on a darker colour especially at Christmas time. Also looks great with Cherry Cobbler if I do say so myself.
Some thing in Baja Breeze now. I think this colour and Dazzling Diamonds Glitter go really well together at Christmas time. Also love the new matching Seam Binding Ribbon.
Another stamp set I treated myself to this year was Jolly Bingo Bits.
I haven’t really had a good chance to play with this set, although most of the ideas in my head involve lots of fussy-cutting out the little images, hence I haven’t found the time. There is always next year for that.
I have seen other clever people using these images to create the words ‘JOY’ and ‘JOLLY’ so I thought I would have a go at that too and here is my creation.
Hope you have enjoyed seeing my Christmas cards. I enjoyed making them when I had the time.
Merry Christmas to you and a Happy New Year, thats when I’ll be back. Till then,
Jen
