Starting Early!!!!!!

Having spent the last couple of days doing birthday and anniversary cards, I thought today I would do something quick and easy. For me quick and easy is usually a card kit. So had a trawl through my stash and came across 4 Kanban kits of the same card that I had bought in my local craft shop back home in Fraserburgh.

I did two layouts - one landscape and one portrait - and adding a wee bit of glitter to the fur trim and bobble of teddy's hat.

That's 4 down, goodness know how many still to go. Thanks for popping by.

5 Cards, 1 image, 1 layout

One of the girls at work asked if I could some christmas cards to send to her family back home - 5 brothers, 1 sister and a Mum.

For the brothers I used the same image - Father Christmas from Digistamp Boutique - and which I coloured in with copics, adding stickles for the santa's hat, jackets and boots and watered down liquid pearls to the beard. To make it easier for me I decided that I would use the same layout for all the cards but use different cardstock to make each card individual.

Was also asked to do a card for her sister. My inspiration came from one of the cards I did recently for a challenge. Used the same basic elements but it has turned out totally different.

The final card was for her mum, all she said was that wanted it to express how much she missed her. Using my sizzix shadowbox dies cut out 2 m's and a u in co-ordinating card and for the sentiment adapted a birthday sentiment and added a bow as a finishing touch.

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My First Christmas Card

Yes, you've read the title right, I have mentioned the dreaded 'christmas' word.

Got the impetus to start when I received an email from Quick Cards letting me know what is in this month's issue. Top of the email was the 'Quick Cards Bonus Papers Challenge'. The challenge was to make a christmas card using the free downloadable bonus papers. I do love freebies, lol!

To make the card I printed off the bonus papers, took out my trusty 'Bug' and die cut some christmas trees from glitter foam, printed off a sentiment and added some gems and Voila!.

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Christmas in July

Summer's not hardly begun and some of us are thinking about Christmas already. How many of you are saying, 'AAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH, you've mentioned the dreaded word'. Well they are over at Stampin' For The Weekend - for theie current challenge you are provided with sketch and a theme - Christmas In July - to follow.

I don't really start thinking about christmas until after the summer but thought I would give it a go and see what I could come up. My stamped image is one that I have used a fair bit for christmas cards and fairly easy to colour in. I coloured the scarves, holly leaves and hat band with copic pens. For the mats I took out my nestabilities - rectangles and big scalloped rectangles. For the circles I used a couple of circle cuttlebug dies. The cardstock is a two-sided cardstock from Basic Grey called Eskimo Kisses Thin Ice. For the sentiment I used a peel-off.

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Final Batch of Friends Cards

Slowly but surely I am getting towards the end of the tunnel of christmas cardmaking. This batch is for my daughter's boyfriend and his family.

These two were made with bits and bots that I had lying about.

I did this one for a challenge way back in the summer.

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Final Batch For Today.

Here is the final batch for today, again using the freebie papers from Creative Cardmarking.

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Making Use of Free Papers

After finally deciding to subscribe to a couple of cardmaking magazines as I was beginning to grudge paying the price of them out here and realising it worked out cheaper over the year I plumped for Creative Cardmaking and Papercraft Essentials.

When I received Creative Cardmaking Issue 7, I loved the free set of papers that came along with that issue. I began by following the instructions for some of the cards in the magazine, as I inspiration had got up and gone, but as I began to work on the cards, it has gradually come back. This selection were done using only about half of the papers.

I have to say I have enjoyed doing this set of cards as it has given me a way to relax and forget about all the trials and tribulations that we have been having at school just now, but I have to admit that over the last couple of days things seem to be falling into place and I am not coming home as stressed as I have been over these last few weeks.

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Same ingredients, 3 results!!!!

Well at long last I have made a start on my christmas cards. For the first batch, I resorted to my trusty 'bug', embossing green cardstock with the snowflake embossing folder and using a variety of christmas card stock and the Sizzix Shadow Box Letters cut out the word 'Noel' which was mounted on the green embossed card with foam pads.

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