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Making Christmas cards

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The signs have been appearing all over the city; the trees, stores, windows and walls are all preparing for what is about to come. The increasing mountain of books next to my desk indicate the same. Exam season is approaching; Christmas is only a month away.

Because of this ridiculous amount of said books, I have already made a fair few Christmas cards. Pairs of Christmas cards, in fact. With limited time on my hand and many people I’d like to give cards to, the easiest way was to make two cards per card design. This is why each post leading up to Christmas will feature two cards; the matching pairs. Unless of course I miraculously get more time on my hands and make singles!

This post contains the first pair:

Christmas - Girl waiting for santa   Christmas - Teddy with presents

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Smell the flowers

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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.

smell the flowers

I reused some of the elements from the front and decorated the inside like this:

smell the flowers - inside

Autumn

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While searching for a tool to make tiny circles with I got somewhat side tracked and ended up purchasing not one, not two, but three floral punches! I’ve been looking at getting some since I started with scrapping, so as soon as the order arrived I started punching out flowers aimlessly. Today I’ve finally had a bit more time, and got some random inspiration to make a card. Last week I was on two smaller hiking trips and loved the colours surrounding me. That is where I’ve gotten the inspiration for this card.

Feeling completely zombied this morning I started colouring a stamp image, one of my favourite motives. The mouse on a daisy, a Tina Wenke image by Stampavie. Once that was done the rest went very quickly. I picked yellows and greens for the paper and added some orange with the punched flowers. Of course I had to use punched flowers on the first card!

autumn

I tried to get the inside to match the front somewhat, and I am really pleased with how the whole card turned out. This time I even remembered to take the photo before writing on it!

autumn, middle

It’s nearly a month and a half since I made the last (and first!) cards and I am surprised how easy it was to make this. Although, I am certain that purchasing the cutter, which cuts both straight and scalloped edges helped immensely!

Pink and flowery

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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.

girl with flowers

This is one of my favourite cards and I reckon I’ll make quite a few with similar style to this one.

Birthday card

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Autumn brings plenty of birthdays on my other half’s side of the family, so it is mostly them I have been making cards for thus far. The aim for this specific card was simple, but sweet. Pink then being the obvious choice of colour went well with my favourite of cream shades. (You will soon see I have a knack of using cream-like shades in most of my cards)

I was merely playing around when I made this, only using all the scrapping material laying about me on the table as inspiration. Although, I am certain various cards I have looked at during the weeks before making this had an impact also. The stamp I used here is by Tina Wenke, Mouse on Daisy, from Stampavie.

There is some design inside the card where the greeting is, but not enough that I felt it necessary to add a photo of it.