All White

My husband is the Chairman of our choir... the Portsmouth Choral Union. Each Christmas he likes to send Christmas greetings to the President and Vice-Presidents of the society and since his office began I have made the cards for these rather special people. 

This is my design for this year.

The challenge at AAA cards calls for mostly white... so apart from the message inside it is mostly white.

I'm nit sure of the origin of the snowflake die, it was a gift and I am delighted with it. However it is rather delicate and without the embossed image to follow I think it would have been quite difficult to arrange accurately on the card.

I have just had a try out of my Christmas nail colour... it's very red and very twinkly... maybe I'll get used to it!

Black & White Christmas

Here is a card using the sketch from CASe this Sketch

It's a really simple make using a Free stamp from a Magazine, a strip each of Washi tape and black card and a circular mount for the image.

I stamped the image in Versafine Black Onyx and then clear embossed it to give some shine. The dies used for the circles were Framelits and Spellbinders.

It's also for the CAS challenges at Addicted to Stamps and More

 & CAS on Friday Use Washi Tape

Reveal Wheel

The challenge at the Male Room this time is to have a moving part.

For my card I decided to make a Lawn Fawn Reveal Wheel type card. 

This one is for my Grandson. 

The penguin is from Poppy Stamps, the word Christmas was masked from a stamp from HLS and the rest is all Lawn Fawn.

The die which cuts the front panel of the card is designed for an American card size, so in order for it to fit on a half sheet of A4, tent fold card base, I elongated the front panel by using the die to cut part way from each end, aligning all the piercing marks. Cutting the second panel for the base layer to exactly the same dimensions is a little more tricky but using the waste from the first cut, made it a little easier. The piercing marks also help a lot.

I used four different sentiments for the speech bubble window, here is another of them!

These are really fun cards to make and I'm sure they are just as much fun for the recipient!

Twofer

Darnell's Twofer Challenge this time is for a wreath!

Here I used a die from Memory Box I believe, for a Christmas card and a card which might be suitable for a Wedding, Engagement or an Anniversary!

Here are the cards individually

The Noel on this one is from Sizzix, the leaves from Crafter's Companion and the bow from MFT. To make the depth of colour of the greens for the leaves I used some glossy photographic paper and daubed it with alcohol inks. When dry, the colours are rich and vibrant and after die-cutting look fab!

The silver base for this card was the cover from a menu at a meal we attended! The dove die was a freebie from a magazine, the Congrats is from Hero Arts, and I'm not really sure of the origin of the tiny leaf sprig.

This next one is for the challenge at AAA Cards where the theme is On the Move

For this one I used some old Stampin UP stamps, tree dies and sentiment from a Magazine freebie and the embossing folder from Sheena Douglass!

This is also for the challenge at The Card Concept where there is this inspiration photo!

   

Having done a count of my Christmas card makes, I realised that I'm still a few short, so I'l be turning my hand to a few swift makes in the very near future!