With Old Olive in the colour mix, it was hard to go past the Merriest Treest bundle for this colour combo for the #30DayChristmasCardmakingChallenge .
What I love with this bundle is that you can create trees of varying sizes so I was able to create a smaller one to fit in this frame.
The corners of the frame were punched out with the Very Best Trio punch. As this punch has the unusual corner, you need to turn your cardstock upside down for the opposite corners so that the pattern is symmetrical.
I used the Score Board to create a simple border around entire card. This creates such a classic and elegant look.
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With the theme of Heading Home. for this creation for the #30DayCardmakingChallenge I went straight for my trucking along bundle. It just had that going home feel and my hardest decision was whether to put a Christmas tree or presents atop the truck.
My card design has been inspired by the White Christmas theme at TGIF Challenges #tgifc451. The addition of blue and Kraft was in-keeping with my snowy look I had on the card.
I die cut a tag from the Kraft Note Cards and then added some Shimmery White Embossing Paste using the Abundant Beauty Decorative Masks. I love the texture that this gives and it creates a unique gift tag.
For the second tag. I tore a piece of paper and used it as a mask, blending Boho Blue and Starry Sky, graduating in darkness down the tag.
Finally, the truck was coloured with Stampin’ Blends. Now, if you don’t want to go through this process, you can use the two-step stamping method and stamp in the fill-in image to give you a quickly coloured truck.
I hope you’ve enjoyed this project and look forward to sharing my next project with you tomorrow. I’m heading home with this challenge and will be done before Christmas!
Today’s card started off as 2 separate elements which I chose to combine for Day 25 of the #30DayChristmasCardmakingChallenge theme of Christmas Cookies.
This gingerbread man is one of my favourites and he’s just such a happy chappy. I wanted the tag to have a vintage look so I watercoloured some Fluid 100 Cardstock to recreate this. Then I added some Gold heat embossing around some of the edges.
I die cut some leaves from the Christmas Pinecones dies in Early Espresso and Soft Sea Foam Cardstock and cut apart them to place around the gingerbread man and the sentiment.
For the background I used the Gorgeously Made stamp set and I blended Soft Sea Foam ink on Soft Sea Foam Cardstock to create a subtle variation in colour. Then I stamped the leaves in Old Olive ink. I added some liquid glue to the sections of leaves I wanted the embossing powder on. The Gold embossing powder was then poured over and heat embossed.
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Do you enjoy a fancy fold card? I’ve got a cute fancy fold for you which I shared on my 12 Weeks of Christmas series on Saturday.
This is a relatively quick fancy fold and is a twist on a gatefold card. I like that you can use leftover paper to decorate it. In my video I share a few examples which show that it will work with whatever products you have.
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I went with a classic colour palette for this card throwing green out the window for the Feeling Holly theme of the #30DayChristmasCardmakingChallenge. This was quite an unusual palette for me and I absolutely loved how it turned out. The black leaves from the Leaves of Holly stamp set (retired) looked so good that I will probably be doing that again!
I stamped the flowers from the Ringed with Nature stamp set in Poppy Parade ink and fussy cut them.
A silver trim adds the sparkly element to this card along with some silver Festive Pearls. This card is filled with texture and layers and shows that you don’t need a lot of colours to make a pretty card. I hope this has inspired you to give some alternate colours a go as you create your cards.
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