Many years ago I was the lucky winner of a great scrapbooking kit full of fun papers from Bella Boulevard. They sat in my stash for quite some time since I no longer make scrapbooks. I decided to pull them out and make some Christmas cards after seeing this fun tutorial over on CARDS TV.
I altered the square into a diamond placement but I'm happy with how they turned out. This design was a great way to use up those papers. I added some tiny red gemstones on one, and green ones on the other.
This is what the inside looks like when the card is opened. The colors are non-traditional but they're fun. The little tree in the center was cut from one of the sheets of paper in the kit.
I will enter these into the CARDS TV ANYTHING GOES CHALLENGE #154
Here's another design I made using the same tutorial for the main image panel but making a standard A2 card with it. I used stitched squares to die cut the image panel and mat, adding 2 plastic snowflakes with a silver brad to the center. The sentiment needed some color to break up all the white, so I took a thin strip of matching dsp, cut it in half, and placed it on that panel. The background was done with a retired SU! snowburst ef.
I will enter this card into the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - A/G
This was made like the card above, only I used a SB poinsettia set of dies to create the flower from pastel green cardstock, adding highlights to the edges with a Copic marker, and a sparkly gem to the center. This embossing folder is (r) from SU! and I think it's called Petals A' Plenty .
For the last card, I found this "I Love Santa" topper in the set and thought it would make a cute card with a gnome. I used a SSS gnome die for this, adding some stenciled pink hearts with a Heidi Swapp stencil and covered his beard with clear Wink of Stella for some subtle shimmer.
It feels good to finally use that scrapbook kit after hanging onto it for so long! I'm finding that everything old is new again as I go through my stash trying to purge.
Thanks for stopping by and do have a great weekend!
Carol
17 comments:
So pretty my friend. Enjoy.
Congrats on your win and brilliant selection of cards love the designs and great use of papers
Carol x
Beautiful selection of cards, Carol. The papers are lovely and the little gnome is just adorable. xx
Love the selection of fabulous Christmas cards. x
A super collection of Christmas cards Carol, lovely, bright and cheerful designs.
Pauline - Crafting with Cotnob
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You've been on a roll, Carol! I love each & every card and the papers you used! The designs are super fun and I love that your using up your stash! Well done, my friend! Hope your having a nice weekend and staying warm! Those winds are crazy COLD!
These are all beautiful and a wonderful way to use the papers. I love the cheerful gnome.
These are so fun and cheery cards, love the bright colours Carol.
Faith x
Lovely collection of Christmas cards and like the fun fold!
Wow! You have been really busy and all your cards look so beautiful! Love the shape of the first two and the quilting design is just perfect for the diamond shape! Love so very much the two embossed cards with the dimensional centre, they look gorgeous! The last one is so cute, love that big sentiment topper and the little gnome!!
Sending you lot of hugs and love!
... And forgot to thank you for the video tutorial for making the quilt design, it's very fun and perfect to use scraps!
Love all these cards! And thanks for sharing that great video
Look at you using up your stash Carol! I love these fun and very festive cards!!! Such unique designs, really loving the papers, embossing and die cuts. You are just so clever my friend! Hugs, Brenda
Such fun patterns - I'm glad you pulled them out! I love the "quilted" cards - so warm and cozy for the season.
Nothing warmer than a quilt card and that gnome is the cutest ever ..........Lis
You've been busy, the top cards remind me of the old tea bag folding technique, blimey I remember when that was all the rage lol. I love the bright colours and that poinsettia in green, very nice!
Oh look at the gnome with that super cute sentiment, paired beautifully together and so sweet... my favourite 😍 x
Festively fantastic cards. I so adore that you added wee strips of patterned paper to the sentiment piece on the second to last greeting shown here.
That is such a clever, wonderful idea and way to use up even the smallest scraps of paper that so many of us lovingly hold onto in our stashes.
Autumn Zenith 🧡 Witchcrafted Life
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