Season's Greetings

I made 5 of these jolly christmas cards over the weekend. I started with two bits of white card which I ran through the Cuttlebug to create the snowflake background and the snowy words embossing. I inked the snowflakes with Cranberry, Stream and Stonewashed Adirondack inks using a sponge, spritzed it Bubblegum Pink, Sea Glass Glimmer Mists and dried it then drew around it roughly with a black pen. I did try adding Pearl Glimmer Mists but this made it too wishy washy and I was a bit lighter with the Glimmer than normal which looked better. The words are dabbed with the sponge with just the lighter Stonewashed and cranberry in a soft way.
Then I stamped, coloured and cut our these lovely snowmen and mounted them on to the words with large foam pads. A little Sparkles glitter glue polished them off nicely. I mounted the words on to black then silver matts, drew round the whole card (A5 in size) with a silver pen to create a frame, then mounted the snowmen and popped on the greeting with a black matt and a lovely flower in the corner. I really like these petals which I got, along with all the other materials from L B Crafts, as usual.

Thinking of You

This really quick card is made using Dovecraft fairy papers. I placed the Thinking of You sticker on a small acetate, secured it to the lovely pink papers with 4 brads, including the paper flowers on the left hand corner. I don't know why it always has to be the left hand corner? If I was doing this again, I wouldn't use the brads because the paper and acetate were "crunkled" by them and it would have been better to secure the acetate with glossy accents and put a small crystal over the top to hide it.

I found 3 pretty matching buttons, placed these on matching paper along with the shiny organza ribbon. This card is a little twee for me (and there is no paint in sight) but I was thinking it would be a good card to send someone who is having a hard time - not too over the top expensive looking...

Happy Holidays

This card is really quick to make. Its a tall black card which I ran through the Cuttlebug to emboss the snowflake design (any would do). I sanded that slightly then smoothed bright sliver brilliance ink pad over it to give the silvery sheen.

I used a small sizzlet die to cut the baubles out of card I had in my stash. The top one is pre-textured paper which I painted using pearly paints. I ran the other two baubles back throught the cuttlebug to create the embossed design. The one on the left is from the parcel set and has nice small snowflakes to it, the other is the larger swirl design. I sanded these and decided not to ink them to leave a more distressed impression.

I tied on the lovely organza blue ribbon so I could see where to lay the baubles out without interrupting it. I bought this ribbon from LB Crafts, my favorite craft store at http://www.lbcrafts.co.uk/

Then I found the organza ribbon. The baubles already have a nice opening so I threaded a piece of organza through this hole and secured it with tape, then ran the organza piece from the bauble over the top of the card. Lastly, I stamped my new happy holidays stamp on the bottom in silver brilliance ink and put in an insert to hide the ribbon inside.