4 December Christmas cards

Triangles tree

Stick triangles to meet at corners, add red gem to each join. Stick inside message under shaped top layers. Stardust stickles to embossed layer.

Father Christmas

Santa, ribbon and candy cane berry red, faces satin, marsh green holly, Sleigh and teddy’s patches firewood or umber brown, Teddy and gloves sandstone. Bells, drum top, and doll’s trim sunflower yellow. Front pot lime green and sky blue. Drum heatwave (orange) puppet turquoise, parcel china blue. Sakura pen. Tiny red gems for holly berries. Foam pads under picture, frosted lace stickles.

Village houses

On white card place circle mask then apply sapphire distress ink then add faded jeans oxide, remove mask and add frosty sky ink. Stamp Father Christmas. Yellow card under each house. Tear waste card off bottom of each 2 smaller layers. Foam pads under houses of top and 2^nd layer. Stick just base of each layer. Trim to fit and frosted lace stickles.

Jumpers

Stick trim and snowflakes to jumpers, put foam pads under each. Stick it all together.

27 November Christmas

Silver tree on blue

Lightly apply some silver gilding polish to embossed layer. Fold each of the squares to make tree. Red gems to tree and clear gems to snowflake border. Foam pad under pot.

Gold stamped tree

Background candid apple, peeled paint, iced spruce and bundled sage oxide inks. Stencil leaves with stampin up green. Stamp fir cones with brown versafine. Edges any green ink. Stamp gold tree on background and white top layer. Foam pads under tree and sentiment.

Glittered poinsettia

Apply gold gilding wax to green leaves. Apply glitter to red leaves.

Poinsettia trio

Marsh green, berry red, sunflower for centre, sakura pen to berries and centres. Crystal stickles to snowflake borders.

6 November Christmas cards

Snowflakes

Stamp and emboss with totally teal on smooth side. Add glitter crystals to snowflake on circle. Edges broken china oxide ink. Foam pads under sentiment and circle.

Poinsettias

Stamp branch with brilliance pearl ivy ink, stamp on top with spikey greenery stamp and versafine Olympia green ink. Edges iced spruce oxide ink and gems to tag.

Fabric baubles

Mark on gold card position of baubles. Use template to cut out wadding and stick to gold card. Red liner tape around cut outs. Foam pads under sentiment and border. Peel off strip to border.

Nativity

Manger frame and hair burnt sienna. Halos mustard and sakura clear pen. Rays gold promarker and sakura clear pen. Background powder blue promarker.  Floor and seat grey squirrel. Skin satin, Joseph’s outer coat 7119 (blue) or twilight sky blue, under clothing polar blue. Mary outer clothing sugar plum(purple) under clothes bluebell.Baby’s wrap 8280 (green) Manger straw is sandstone (beige) Foam pads under picture.

30 October Christmas cards

Blue and silver tree

Through rectangle stencil apply blueprint sketch oxide ink. Stamp and emboss white snowflakes and silver tree. With a silver gel pen draw a wiggly line around blue area. Add gems and stars.

Greenery garland

Stamp and emboss swirl with gold. Pencil in a curvy line. Start at right hand end overlap greenery just sticking each at the base. Add mini red dots for berries.

Glittered Tree

Apply glue and green glitter then red then white. Just glue s few segments at a time. Holly leaves to edges. Gems to snowflake border. Tiny red gems as berries. Foam pads under sentiment.

Snow village

Marsh green trees. Church firewood or umber (brown) windows sunflower, chimneys and church door ice grey 2, houses cornflower blue, lime green and sleigh bell yellow. Doors berry red sky powder blue, sun canary yellow, quickie glue pen and glamour dust (glitter) to trees.  Frosted lace stickles to roof tops, snowflakes and snowy ground. Foam pads under sentiment.

16 October Christmas

Wise men

Left hand man sugar plum and lilac turban. Middle man Plum preserve and maroon. Right hand man lavender and 560 (mauve). Sakura clear pen to decorate.

Bauble

Stamp and emboss with silent night, cut out bauble add tiny red dots. Foam pads under top layer and bauble. Add stars and peel off hanger.

Poinsettia

Marsh green and berry red for corners plus sakura clear pen. Peel off dots to flower centre.

Snowman

Hat eyes and nose black, waistcoat pear green, mittens oasis, tie heatwave (orange). Silver peel off for hat band and buttons. Crystal stickles to borders and fluffy stuff to base of snowman.

9 October Christmas cards

Snowflake circle

Stamp and emboss snowflake on fluted white circle with frosty dawn. Add frosty sky colour cloud ink over stamping and blueprint sketch blue oxide ink to fluted edges.

Stencilled background

Peeled paint. Iced spruce, gathered twigs and candid apple oxide inks. Add berry red promarker to berries. Sakura clear pen to decorate some leaves and berries. Foam pads under sentiment.

Robin

Marsh green holly leaves, mistletoe forest green, pear green tiny leaves, berries berry red. Fir cones and feet henna. Black gem for eye. Satin to mistletoe berries. Sakura clear pen to some leaves. Robin satin and cocoa, branch firewood or umber.

Bauble trio

Stick back holly leaves. Foam pads under baubles, peel off strings, red gems for berries.

2 October Christmas

Scrabble tree

Cut out letters and trim the width of letters in Christmas to fit. Space letters to make tree shape, use a ruler to get them straight. Edges of letters candid apple ink or berry red promarker. Enchanted gold gilding polish to red edges and black square. Bundled sage ink to white edges.

Nativity

Stamp and emboss with white embossing powder. Stardust stickles to snowflakes.

Wreath

Foam pads under poinsettias. Cut out fir cones. Cut up greenery and gold then slot in around the wreath.

Music baubles

Enchanted gold gilding polish to embossed layer, edges of red and bauble edges. Peel off red dots for berries.

25 September General cards

Silver tree

Apply ink through circle stencil with shaded lilac ink, leave the centre very pale. Stamp and emboss tree in silver.

Falling leaves

Ink smallest black die cut with versamark ink, apply Verdigris, gold and black embossing powder and heat on top, while still hot add more powder and heat again. Edges of black sentiment gold gilding wax. Tips of large leaf add one of the brown distress inks and  sakura clear pen.

Cream flower

Rub a white wax crayon over embossed layer, colour with frosty sky colour cloud and bundled sage oxide ink. Buff with kitchen roll to remove excess ink. Emboss veins on leaves. Edges of sentiment bundled sage distress ink. Foam pads under sentiment.

Window

Stamp leaves on window box, edges of window and brick wall antique linen ink. Stick acetate to window then blind and wallpaper. Boots cornflower and tulip promarkers. Peel off for dog lead.

18 September General cards

Fuchsia

Marsh green leaves, flowers maroon and lavender. Sakura pen to stamen, seedless preserve distress ink to edges. Peel off dots to white flowers.

Men’s Jacket

Edges of clothes gathered twigs or other brown ink. Stitch or glue buttons on. Foam pads under shirt collar, jacket, tie and bow ties.

Dress

Lay paper strips from outer edges and place middle one on top.

Hearts

Milled Lavender ink to edges of white layer. Stamp and emboss flowers with grape crush. Cut out and fix with brad.

11 September

Hexagonal flowers

Make sure the card will stand up before sticking it together!

Mustard flowers

Outer frame oasis promarker, tulip yellow on decorative bits, sakura clear pen to frame edges.

Hearts

Brayer cloudy blue Adirondack ink, foam pads under 2 largest hearts and sentiment.

Gold watch on blue

Sponge background of faded jeans, broken china, hickory smoke, peeled paint, bundled sage and fossilised amber oxide inks.

Stamp map and text 2^nd and 3^rd generation. Stamp and emboss VERY lightly the watch and emboss with gold. Edges of sentiment weathered wood distress ink.

19 June General cards

Born to shop

Edges of bags and letters red promarker or ink. Stick handles to inside and tissue.

Garden

Tree trunks, shed roof, door frame and shelves firewood or umber (brown). Leaves marsh green. Tool handles and roses berry red. Tool bases ice grey 2. Terracotta for flower pots, bird box and trellis. Flowers sunflower yellow, trick or treat pink, china blue and cardinal red. Lawn apple green. Path and pebbles grey squirrel, bird bath sandstone, glass panes icicle, watering can holly green, shed pastel beige. Birds cocoa or henna.

Silver roses

Stamp roses with bilbury crush embossing powder. Sentiment is sea turtle powder. Edges of card and sentiment iced spruce oxide

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Blue Flower

Using toilet roll apply white and pink acrylic paint, then add touches of faded jeans and peacock feathers oxide ink. Foam pads under centre.

12 June General Cards

Centre step

Marsh green leaves, maroon flowers and powder blue swirls. Apply glue with nib  to flower centres and dark glitter. Glue and light glitter to dots. Edge of picture maroon promarker.

Motorbike

Chalk to stamped image. Stick black motorbike then add blue and silver bits. Edges iced spruce oxide ink. Foam pads under sentiment.

Flower pots

Edges rusty hinge ink. Foam pads under centre of pots, watering can, flower heads and sentiment. Peel off dots to flowers.

Black and grey

Apply hickory smoke oxide through stencil, then stamp bubbles with black ink. Mask off and stamp black swirls, flowers with pearlescent ice blue ink. Stick random blobs. Stardust stickles to dots in centre and sakura pen to flowers. Edges berry red promarker , foam pads under sentiment.

5 June General Cards

Deep purple

Mix slap it on with silver mica and glitter apply through stencil to corner. Tips of flowers shaded lilac oxide ink.

                                                                 Coloured rectangles

Picked raspberry and faded jeans oxide inks through stencil. Stamp flowers then sakura clear pen to petals and star dust stickles flower centres. Edges Frosty sky colour cloud ink.

Heart

Ink heart with versamark and ultra-thick emboss  then add gold mica powder. Stamp corners with fossilised amber ink.

Tools

Ice grey 2, berry red, screws and text on glue tube sleigh bell yellow, hammer handle firewood or umber brown. Pencil and super glue pear green. Edges Gathered twigs ink or any brown. Hooks for hammer and saw are black gems.