Merry Christmas, everyone. As the season requires, I’ve been very busy. Thankfully I’ve managed to finish all my christmas cards in time, as well as two birthday cards. I plan to have all of these posted before the year is over. This post here will contain the pair of cards I made as a break from studying for my exams. A most welcomed break it was.
After 8 cards in green and red, I needed a change. The obvious choice was to make a sandy colour the main colour of these cards, as that’s a colour I’ve worked a fair bit previously. The sandy colour gives an old feeling to the cards, which work nicely at Christmas, I think.
Christmas is approaching fast.
The two cards featured in this post was also made about a month ago. Although I haven’t had much time to post the past month I’m sort of happy about that now when I have no time to make new cards. I guess it’s worked itself out, heh.
These two cards are both red and I have used Sarah Kay stamps by Stampavie for both. I have loved her stuff ever since discovering her stuff about ten years ago. So so cute!
Time sure does fly at this time of year. The card in this post was made at the start of the month and I have only just now had time to write this post. There are a few more card posts to follow next weeks also.
I had many flowers made up using the floral punches, so I wanted to make a card where I could use one. To keep with the flowery theme, I wanted to use a floral stamp as well. The obvious choice of stamp was the girl sat in a bed of flowers. It is a Sarah Kay stamp by Stampavie. As this is a stamp I’d recently coloured for a different card, I wanted to make this look different. The previous one was very colourful, so this time I tried to stick to only a few colour palettes. I’m very pleased with the result.
Additionally I wanted the card to be fairly plain and leave the stamp as the main design element. The greens and pinks were then obvious colour choices.
I reused some of the elements from the front and decorated the inside like this:
Although made around the same time as the cards posted thus far, this is the card I started on last. I wanted something plain, but still colourful and girly. The decision fell on pink and green patterned paper with some dark red to get some contrasts in.
The stamp was chosen first, because this was first stamp I chose when I purchased the first lot, and I hadn’t used it on anything yet! I love the Sarah Kay stamps and this one is called Juliet in the Field of Nasturtiums. Stampavie makes them. It did take a while to colour, but I’m very pleased with the end result.
It is only the front of the card that’s been decorated, the inside was slightly borded by flowers on the patterned paper so I decided to leave that as it was.
This is one of my favourite cards and I reckon I’ll make quite a few with similar style to this one.