Lets get festive..

Hi folks

 Time to seriously start thinking about the festive season and get crafting away on those special cards we will be sending out this year. Here's one from my spellbinders collections you may recognise some of the die cuts from previous cards.

The reindeer is part of the 'fanciful holidays set , this sits nicely on a two Persian motif dies cut in red and white and then on a fancy oval die. (spellbinders again) I kept the colours simple just red and black with a splash of silver and thinks this works well. I finished this off with a sentiment peel off and some holographic stars..

I will be entering some of these cards in  the Christmas Card weekly Challenge and Emmas Hints Anything goes Challenge wish me luck xx

The reindeer comes out every year and is an old favourite and so does the Tree stamp below




 This stamp is humongous and fills a 7'' x 5'' card easily You could simply stamp it on a card blank and emboss it and job done!!! but I've never been very good at doing that as I believe 'more is more' so this card has been blinged up with some silver mirror foil snow flakes cut from some Marianne designs dies and decorated with some red 'ruby' gems from my crafty stash. The corners were punched out using one of my woodware corner punches before the card was assembled and then mounted onto some silver mirror card. My entry in the C.R.A.F.T Challenge

The village stamp is new from the 'Stampendous' range  and if i say so myself makes a lovely greetings card for Christmas. I really enjoyed making these cards and think there are more to be had from this stamp . Apart from the obvious of just stamping and colouring there is an opportunity to decoupage and paper piece too, these are a few ideas for the future to try.

These two below have just been stamped and decorated in a basic way with embellishments and a frame and then matt and layered onto co-ordinating coloured card There's glitterly 'snow' on the roof tops but Alas my camera didn't pick this up very well.

The card below was done with a light brown / beige colour ink pad and has a softer feel to it
also my entry to the Crafty mess Challenge hope they like it.

Just to show I can do simple if I have to,
 here's a card in with a different look

Simple but festive without the over the top bling element , I took my inspiration from a card made by Sue Wilson the Spellbinder Queen

 

My favourite of the bunch is this little card made from craft card , this medium has a 'old package/brown paper parcel 'feel to it and so I used a brown parcel label for the main topper and added the reindeer and sleigh which I cut using my Cricut machine. I try not to use this too much as I feel it takes away from the 'hand crafted' element when electric machines are involved, but in this case I didn't have a die I could use for the sleigh and the sentiment wouldn't have looked right unless it was cut from the same craft card.