More Christmas card inspiration for 2014.

 

There's a lot of different manufacturers in these cards, some old, some new.  I have listed them below. I hope you like them.

 

Tip for today : If you don't have the right colour for your decorative gems try dripping alcohol ink over clear, white or a similar coloured gems (e.g. use a pink gem with dark red alcohol ink). I did this for the stags/deer eyes. I used brown alcohol ink on a clear gem. For the Holly berries I used cranberry alcohol ink on a pearl white gem.

The centres of the poinsettias are clear microbeads mixed with a yellow alcohol ink and allowed to dry before application.

 

Stag's head and leaping stag - Marianne dies
Greetings - frames from an old Anna Griffin CD rom and computer text.
Winter wishes - Tattered Lace.
Noel greetings -  designed & cut by me on the original Quickutz Silhouette machine
Pine branches - Chloe's stamps, Tattered lace and an old Judikins Christmas block.
3 Holly leaves - Judikins Christmas block.
Poinsettia - Spellbinders, Quickutz silhouette & Sizzix Bigz dies.
Flourishes - Spellbinders.
Gold Matts - Martha Stewart punch around the page & Tonic dies.
Holly sprig - Creative Expressions die
Wreath - Sweet Poppy stencil and my homemade stencilling paste (see earlier post)
Holly corner - I think is an old X cut punch.
Gold snowflake - Spellbinders.

Have fun!

Yve
 

Inexpensive Card Stand

Do you sell your cards?
Want to display them without spending a fortune on expensive dies or stands?

Well here's my version (with template & instructions). Feel free to copy & print the template. All I ask is that you point the credit back here and spread the word.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Take an A4 sheet of card.
(I used foiled but you could use plain and decorate it)

2. On the wrong side and measuring from the shorter edge measure & score at 1cm, 2.5cm & 4cm (ABC distances apart as shown).
     Draw a pencil line at 5cm. (the red line at 'D' on the template)

3. At the opposite end of the card measure and score at 1cm, 9cm & 17cm.  (EFG distances as shown)
     Draw a pencil line at 23cm. (the red line at 'H' on the template)

4. Cut the A4 sheet into 3 lengthways (the dotted green line). Each piece should be 7cm wide.

5. Between point 'A' and the edge of the card put extra strong double sided tape.
Fold to make a triangle align and stick to your pencil mark at 'D'.

6.  Between point 'E' and the edge of the card put extra strong double sided tape.
Fold to make a triangle align and stick to your pencil mark at 'H'.

7. Do this for each of your 3 pieces.

If you're not decorating - Job done.


Thanks for looking and happy crafting.

Yve

Rough few weeks !

First I have to apologise to apologise to the ladies booked on my 'mirror stamping' class. Unfortunately since I was off sick from my regular day job, I can't be seen to be working elsewhere (however much I want to be there for you). So I'm sorry I had to let you down. I will be doing classes again after the holidays so I hope you'll forgive me and join me then.

Personally I've had a rough few weeks culminating in the passing of a dear family pet who went over the rainbow bridge sometime overnight Thursday/Friday. Although his passing has been expected for the last year, I thought I was prepared for it. WRONG ! I spent all Friday night balling my eyes out. Welcome back those fatty bags under my eyes that I worked so hard on getting rid of last time I had a good boo ! Oh, well !

I haven't been lying about feeling sorry for myself all the time though as you've probably noticed from my last post (stencilling with this Sweet Poppy Stag being what I  hope to be doing as one of my classes soon). Once I'd made all these stags heads though they had to made into cards and here are some of the results (plus some other creations). Hope you like them. Only one of them is done with shop bought embossing paste.

 

 

Hopefully, with the arrival of a very lovely gift from Tonic studios (guess who jumps to the top of my favourite crafty stash list) on Saturday morning I can put all this bad luck behind me. I also got a £5 birthday voucher from Ideal World (which I hope includes C&C) and only this morning I got a £2 voucher for being overcharged at ASDA's  (including the amount I was overcharged). Not a huge amount granted, but when you live on a tight budget everything's welcome. The moral of the story is "always check your receipts before you leave the shop".

 

 

Anyway, enough for now. I'm Hank Marvin so I'm off  to see what I can rustle up for my tea.

 

 

Yve