Christmas cards 13 December

 

Baubles

Stamp with gold embossing powder 2 large green and 1 small red baubles then cut out. Colour holly leaves with holly green, small leaves apple cider. Berries and decoration berry red. Foam pads under baubles add peel off for hangers and stick bows.

Wise men

Crowns sunflower yellow, gifts olive green Beards and hair and shoe firewood or umber brown. Faces and hands satin (cream). Middle king pear green and heatwave (orange). King on right Prussian blue and sunflower. King to left marine and sleigh bell yellow.

Poinsettia

Put alternate strips left to right using 1” pencil marks as a guide. The top strips are left to right matching green to green and red to red. Peel off dots to centre of poinsettia.

Snowy cottage

Mask off a circle and add speckled egg ink around the edges. Mask off across the cirle and add more ink to mark the ground. Remove mask and stamp border with black ink. Red glaze pen to berries. Cabin colour firewood or umber brown, windows sunflower, door berry red. Add dots with quickie glue pen to add glitter. Frosted lace stickles to roof and snow.

Christmas cards 29 November

 

Snowflakes

Stamp snowflakes onto small blue piece of card with frosty dawn. Stamp the sentiment with blue embossing powder or use a peel off. You will need to trim the silver banner.

Christmas Tree iris folding

The paper strips are a variety of sizes as the segments vary in width the small rectangle is for the middle.

Merry Christmas Wreath

Poinsettia berry red and marsh green, centre is sunflower yellow. spikey greenery is marsh green. Mistletoe apple cider green. Holly leaves holly green and berry red. Rosehips burnt sienna brown. Fir cone firewood or umber. Bundled sage ink to edges of embossed layer.

O little town of Bethlehem

Dark green is winter spruce and marsh green, beige areas are grey squirrel, light pink is red sweater. Dark red roof red sweater and firewood or umber. Dotted areas pastel beige or sandstone. Bluish building is twilight sky and firewood or umber roof. Lilac building is greyish lavender (copic pen). Palm tree is sandstone and marsh green. Sakura pen to black dots.