In the week before Christmas I was laid low with the horrible cold-flu thing that seems to have been doing the rounds recently; I rallied enough to enjoy Christmas dinner with the neighbours (just as well I didn’t have to cook that day), but I am still not one hundred per cent over it… All… Continue reading Christmas: One last yeti
I had intended to make more cards with this set, but I ended up not needing to. It will definitely get used for some birthday cards though (and there’s always next Christmas)… Last year my mum asked me to make a card for her to give to her brother — he always gets her cards… Continue reading Christmas: Candles over snow flurry
I try not to give cash for presents, but sometimes it’s unavoidable. This year for instance: my younger nephew was collecting cash for a new jacket and I topped up my older nephew’s gift with a “beer token”. For the first one, I created a Santa-style envelope, attaching it to the card base using the… Continue reading Christmas: Money cards
I originally coloured Unicorn Mae in October last year and she had been languishing in my stash before finally being put on a card as part of a brief blitz on my PHD (projects half done) box. Her red and blonde colouring suggested she’d fit nicely on a Christmas card, so I got out the… Continue reading Christmas: Unicorn Mae
I have to take a break from my Copic markers every now and again — just for a bit of variety — and I do enjoy playing with the Zig real brush markers, even if I do need way more practise with them. When I pulled the digi print from the stack I’d prepared for… Continue reading Christmas: Duck with presents
I love this gorgeous digi stamp from Polkadoodles; with the cute fox, the fur and the fabric, it provided the perfect opportunity to practise adding texture in my Copic colouring. I wasn’t sure what to do with the background at first, but then I started adding dots… and more dots… and different coloured dots… Challenges:… Continue reading Christmas: Octavia with fox
Not exactly a batch of cards — at least not in the sense of having identical designs — but they were made at the same time and with the intention of focussing more on creating with embellishments than with stamping or colouring. I've been meaning to make a card with buttons ever since I got… Continue reading Christmas: Small squares
Another small batch of cards made to fill out the Christmas cards stash; this time a more graphic style in red, grey, black and white. Once again I used the MISTI to make the stamping easier, and for a change, I even stamped the inside of the cards. Supplies: stamps: Create A Smile - snowflake whispers… Continue reading Christmas: Snowflakes on red and grey
Happy Christmas! This is pretty much the nearest I get to clean and simple card design: a single digital image and sentiment, coloured with Copic markers, on a white panel bordered with matte gold tape. Luckily these are such sweet images that they don’t need anything more. Supplies: digital stamps: Digistamp Boutique - cute nativity… Continue reading Christmas: Cute nativity
In an attempt (surprisingly successful this year) to avoid panic-making cards just before Christmas, I usually create a couple of small batches of cards; this was my first for this year. I keep the batches small and swap out the colours so that none of the cards created are identical. How: I cut some white… Continue reading Christmas: Snowflakes and tag
A friend of ours really doesn’t do Christmas, but I hate to leave him off the Christmas card list. This year I was inspired to make him a solstice card instead, as celebrating the passing of the shortest day of the year is far more appropriate. Supplies: stamps: Create A Smile - snowflake whispers Lawn… Continue reading Solstice card
This card was created on 28th November; day 28 of The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge. When I saw this stamp being used by a couple of other crafters, I knew I was going to have to get one for myself to make a Christmas card for my brother — he had a VW… Continue reading Christmas bug
I can’t decide whether I am going to finish decorating this card or not… I made it as an experiment prompted by the latest challenge from The East Wind; I could have got my trusty Copic markers out, but I wanted to do something completely different as a break from all the Christmas card stamping… Continue reading Meowy Christmas
These cards were created on 17th November; day 17 of The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge. Yes, even more yetis… The last ones for the moment, but I can’t promise I won’t be using them again 🙂 These were inspired by my other half suggesting that I should have a yeti peeking from behind… Continue reading Christmas: Peeking yetis
These cards were created on 11th November; day 11 of The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge. Yes, more yetis… They are a nice, fairly simple, shape which lent itself well to being used for testing a bunch of different ways of adding texture and sparkle, and it would be a shame to waste those… Continue reading Christmas: Yetis with trees
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