21 October Fabric Christmas cards

General fabric instructions

Cut wadding to fit aperture, put double sided tape around the edges of aperture and on back of wadding and the outer edges. Use straight border peel off for bauble hangers.

Robin

Marsh green for holly leaves and trees, berry red for robin and berries, breast blush or sand dune, bird back and fence umber , legs henna, branch and bottom of fence posts caramel or cinnamon, windows sunflower or canary, path and sky is chalk, sakura clear pen to snowflakes in the sky, house and church walls anything pale, frosted lace stickles for snow on roofs and trees, bundles sage ink or chalk to robin frame, put 3d foam pads under the frame.

Mary and Joseph

Mary's dress cornflower, hands and faces satin, Mary's hair and Joseph s beard cocoa, baby's wrap china blue, Mary and Joseph's under garments red sweater, Joseph's outer clothing aubergine or sugar plum or plum preserve, building and babies hair pineapple crush or mustard,door is tawny owl ground tan,greenery marsh green, moon is sleigh bell or canary, clear sakura pen to stars on picture, edges black soot ink or chalk. Once coloured spray lightly with spray and sparkle.

14 October Christmas decorative double fold cards

Mary and Joseph

Cornflower blue to edges of clothing, faces and hands satin, beard sandstone, Mary's gown lavender, Joseph's coat pastel beige, baby shawl Capri blue, sakura clear pen to halos, edges frayed burlap ink or chalk. Once coloured spray lightly with spray and sparkle before sticking to card.

Red bauble

Iris folding using single layer of paper, straight border peel off to make hanging string.

Square Christmas Rose

Marsh green to fine greenery, holly leaves forest green AND marsh green, berries berry red, you have an extra printed flower from which you cut 3 flower heads to lay in top of the full base picture (use 3d foam pads) flowers primrose or eggnog. Red glaze pen to berries, sakura clear pen to flower centres, old paper ink or chalk to edges.

Paper strips tree

The longest strip of paper is 2” each subsequent strip of coloured paper is ¼” shorter than the one below. Frosted lace stickles to snowflakes.

Lamp post with tree

Marsh green to under edge of tree, wreath forest green, lamp bulb stars and ribbon on wreath

sunflower or canary, fence walnut or chestnut or burnt sienna, ground frosted leaf, lamp post frozen lake or pastel blue or icicle, sky is chalk sakura clear pen to falling snowflakes, lamp glass satin, frosted lace stickles as snow on tree.

7 October Christmas star fold cards

Green and red star

Tiny peel off star to paper star centre.

Blue and Silver star

Stardust stickles to snowflakes. Small peel off star to paper star centre

Bauble trio

The flourish is stamp embossed or use die cut flourish. Thread the thread to hang baubles through flourish, put 3d foam pads under baubles. Star peel off to bauble centres little gems red corner swirls and stamped flourish.

Heart tree

stick the brown square tree base to card then place 4 large hearts upside down in a row above tree base, then stick the remaining hearts upside down to create the tree shape. Barn door or festive berries ink to edges.

Holly and ribbon corner

General greenery marsh green, holly leaves holly, ribbon and berries berry red, red stickles to holly berries frosted lace stickles to snowflakes.