Christmas 2015

Every year I say I’m going to start making my Christmas cards in July, to avoid the inevitable last minute panic & that ‘I never want to see another Christmas card again’ feeling, & every year I never do it. As usual I vow not to buy any more Christmas stash but I always do & most of it lies unopened & unused. Maybe if I make a card a week then I’ll be organised by December, & I’ll have plenty time to try out different ideas.

My first card is an idea I have wanted to do for a while. I cut snowman shapes from old book pages & mounted them on a kraft card which had been randomly dotted with blobs of white acrylic paint. Simple but effective. I’ll definitely make more of these.

Bookpage snowman

The second card came about as I had a set of nesting holly leaf dies that I bought last Christmas & never used. I cut the leaves from tartan card, edged with gold, & sewed on a red button for the berry. The greeting is cut with my new Dreamweaver alphabet dies that I just had to try out. Again, simple but effective.

Happy Holly Days

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