A Christmas Card For Donna

I made this Christmas card for my good friend Donna from Smiley Crafter, but as it had to make it's way overseas to the UK, I didn't want to post on here until after she had received it. Hope you all like it. :D

A Christmas Card For Donna

I used white card as my base card, which I covered with a holly patterned card. I then attached a green satin ribbon down the right side of the card, and a red satin ribbon along the bottom.

I coloured in a Willow Design's "A Spot Of Gardening" Digi in Photoshop, printed it on white card and trimmed around it. I then used red polka dot paper to paper piece her skirt and red paper for her boots. I glued pieces of fluffy white fibre to the bottom edge of her skirt, and to the top of her boots. Next I cut a heart out of a free green swirl patterned paper from Free Digital Scrapbooking and a slightly smaller heart out of pastel green card. I attached the green swirl heart to the pastel heart with double sided foam tape. I then glued the digi in the center of the heart, and glued the heart to the card.

I then made a ribbon circle sentiment. Please see my tutorial on how to make these for more info. And glued it to the bottom corner of the card where the red and green ribbons meet.

I then glued a green pastel paper square to the inside of my card. I made and printed a "May your Christmas be merry and bright" sentiment in Photoshop and glued it to the center of the green square. Lastly I cut the back off a Christmas tree brad and glued it to the bottom right corner.

Snowman "Gift Card" Card

I made this card last night to hold a gift card that we got my Uncle for Christmas. I am also entering it in this week's Willow Sketchie Challenge. Hope you all like it. :D

Snowman "Gift Card" Card

I used a white card as my base card, which I glued a slightly smaller square of free green swirl patterned paper from Free Digital Scrapbooking to. I coloured in a Free Sliekje Snowman Digi Stamp in Photoshop, printed it on white card and cut it into a rectangle. I then matted it onto a red polka dot paper and glued it to the left side of my card. I then made and printed out a "Christmas Wishes" sentiment in Photoshop onto white card, cut it out and glued it to the right of the digi.

Lastly I made and glued a red polka dot pocket to the inside of the card to hold the gift card.

This card was fun to make and I would like to thank Hazel from Willow Sketchie Challenge for a great sketch and recipe. Merry Christmas everyone :-* And good luck to all that enter :D

Reindeer "Gift Card" Card

I made this card last night to hold a gift card that we got my Dad for Christmas. I am also entering it in this week's Willow Sketchie Challenge. Hope you all like it. :D

Reindeer "Gift Card" Card

I used a white card as my base card, which I glued a slightly smaller square of red and white striped paper to. I coloured in my Free Reindeer Digi Stamp in Photoshop, printed it on white card and cut it into a rectangle. I then matted it onto a free green swirl patterned paper from Free Digital Scrapbooking and glued it to the left side of my card. I then made and printed out a "Christmas Wishes" sentiment in Photoshop onto white card, cut it out and glued it to the right side of the digi.

Lastly I made and glued a red and white striped pocket to the inside of the card to hold the gift card.

This card was fun to make and I would like to thank Hazel from Willow Sketchie Challenge for a great sketch and recipe. Merry Christmas everyone :-* And good luck to all that enter :D 

Elf "Gift Card" Card

I made this card last night to hold a gift card that we got my Brother for Christmas. I am also entering it in this week's Willow Sketchie Challenge. Hope you all like it. :D

Elf "Gift Card" Card

I used a white card as my base card, which I glued a slightly smaller square of red polka dot paper to. I coloured in a Free Sliekje Santa's Helper Digi Stamp in Photoshop, printed it on white card and cut it into a rectangle. I then matted it onto a free green swirl patterned paper from Free Digital Scrapbooking and glued it to the top of my card. I then made and printed out a "Christmas Wishes" sentiment in Photoshop onto white card, cut it out and glued it underneath and to the left of the digi.

Lastly I made and glued a red polka dot pocket to the inside of the card to hold the gift card.

This card was fun to make and I would like to thank Hazel from Willow Sketchie Challenge for a great sketch and recipe. Merry Christmas everyone :-* And good luck to all that enter :D

2 Quick Christmas Cards

I made these 2 quick Christmas Cards today to give to 2 friends that I will be seeing tomorrow. Hope you all like them. :D

 2 Quick Christmas Cards

I made these cards small (12 x 8cm) so that I could fit them in pre bought envelopes to save me a bit of time making them. Each card has white card for a base card.

For this card I coloured in my free Elf Digi Stamp in Photoshop, printed it on white card and cut it into a rectangle. I then matted it onto a green paper rectangle. I also printed a "Merry Christmas" sentiment (which I had made previously in Photoshop) onto white card, trimmed round it and matted it to red paper which I then also trimmed around. I attached a red Christmas ribbon across the bottom before sticking the Digi and sentiment into place.

 

 

For this card I coloured in a free My Memories Of Days Gone By Santa Digi in Photoshop, printed it on white card and cut it into a rectangle. I then matted it onto a red paper rectangle. I also printed a "We wish you a Merry Christmas" sentiment (which I had made previously in Photoshop) onto white card, trimmed around it and matted it to red paper which I then also trimmed around. I attached a red Christmas ribbon across the bottom before sticking the Digi and sentiment into place.

 

Quick Reindeer Card

Here's my entry that I made tonight for this week's Willow Sketchie Challenge. It was a quick card as I was running out of time, plus my printer has decided to play up, and I couldn't print out any new digi's, papers or sentiments. :( Hope you all like it. :D

Quick Reindeer Card

I used white card for my base card. I then cut a large rectangle out of a free green swirl patterned paper from Free Digital Scrapbooking and glued it down the left side of my card. I cut a smaller rectangle out of red and white polka dot paper and glued lengthways towards the top right of my card. Next I cut a rectangle out of yellow card and glued it towards the bottom right of my card.

I then cut a rectangle with rounded corners out of white card. I cut and glued a "Merry Christmas" ribbon to the top and bottom of the white rectangle. I then glued my Free Reindeer Digi Stamp (that I had already printed and cut out a while ago ;) ) onto the middle of the white rectangle. I then glued the rectangle to the card. Lastly I cut the back off a gold star brad and glued it to the right of the top ribbon.

Although this was a super quick card, it was still fun to make and would like to thank Anne-Marie from Willow Sketchie Challenge for a fantastic sketch. Good luck to all that enter. :D

5 Quick Christmas Cards

I made these 5 quick Christmas Cards today to give to a group of friends that I will be seeing tomorrow. Hope you all like them. :D

5 Quick Christmas Cards

I made these cards small (12 x 8cm) so that I could fit them in pre bought envelopes to save me a bit of time making them. Each card has white card for a base card.

For this card I coloured in a Free Sliekje Christmas Tree Elephant Digi Stamp in Photoshop, printed it on white card and cut it into a rectangle. I then matted it onto a green paper rectangle. I attached a red satin ribbon down the side, and a green bow to the ribbon.

For this card I coloured in a Free Sliekje Santa's Helper Digi Stamp in Photoshop, printed it on white card and cut it into a rectangle. I then matted it onto a green paper rectangle. I attached 2 red satin ribbons criss crossing across the bottom, and a green bow to the ribbon.

For this card I coloured in a Free Sliekje Angel Of Love Digi Stamp in Photoshop, printed it on white card and cut it into a rectangle. I then matted it onto a blue paper rectangle. I used glitter glue on the snow. I attached a blue satin ribbon across the bottom, and a yellow bow to the ribbon.

 For this card I coloured in a Free Sliekje Snowman Digi Stamp in Photoshop, printed it on white card and cut it into a rectangle. I then matted it onto a red paper rectangle. I used glitter glue on the snow. I attached a red satin ribbon across the bottom, and a green bow to the ribbon.

 For this card I coloured in a Free Sliekje Singing Christmas Carols Digi Stamp in Photoshop, printed it on white card and cut it into a rectangle. I then matted it onto a red paper rectangle. I used glitter glue on the snow. I attached a red and a green satin ribbon down the side, and a yellow bow across both the ribbons.

Elf Money card

This is my second entry in this week's Willow Sketchie Challenge. Whilst there was no sketch or anything to follow this week, my Mum set me the challenge of making a money card for both my Nan and my Pop for Christmas. This one is for my Pop... I hope you all like it :D

Elf Money card

I used a white card as my base card. I then covered 2/3 of the card with a free green swirl patterned paper from Free Digital Scrapbooking. I then covered the remainder with a 20 x 20 sheet of striped patterned paper (leaving plenty of spare paper around the edges to make the money pocket, see tutorial below).

 

For a more detailed tutorial please see my: Reindeer Money card

1. After covering the remainder of the card with the green swirl paper, I then cut 2 slits up to the card at the top and bottom of the spare paper around the edge to create 4 flaps. I also trimmed the spare paper at the side of the card to 8cm.

2. This is what it should look like on the reverse side.

3. Next I folded over the 2 small flaps at the top and bottom. I then glued the 2 smaller flaps to the card. I then folded over the 2 larger flaps. Lastly I glued the 2 larger flaps down (put glue on the patterned side).

I then decorated the pocket with a ribbon, bow and stamped sentiment.

I then coloured in my free Elf Digi in Photoshop, printed it on white card and trimmed it into a circle. I then matted it to a circle of green paper and glued it to the center left of my card. Lastly I attached 2 "Merry Christmas" ribbons to the top and bottom of the swirl paper on the left of my card.

I had so much fun creating this card and would like to thank the DT at Willow Sketchie Challenge and my Mum for a great challenge. Good luck to all that enter. :D

Reindeer Money Card

This is my first entry in this week's Willow Sketchie Challenge. Whilst there was no sketch or anything to follow this week, my Mum set me the challenge of making a money card for both my Nan and my Pop for Christmas. This one is for my Nan... I hope you all like it :D

Reindeer Money Card

I used a white card as my base card. I then covered 2/3 of the card with a holly patterned paper. I then covered the remainder with a 20 x 20 sheet of free green swirl patterned paper from Free Digital Scrapbooking (leaving plenty of spare paper around the edges to make the money pocket, see tutorial below).

Sorry I got the order a bit mixed up in this pic, number 1 should really be number 4. :(

2. After covering the remainder of the card with the green swirl paper, I then turned it over and cut slits up to the card at the top and bottom of the spare paper around the edge to create 4 flaps. I also trimmed the spare paper at the side of the card to 8cm and cut a finger hole on the edge.

3. Next I folded over the 2 small flaps at the top and bottom. I then glued the 2 smaller flaps to the card.

4. I then folded over the 2 larger flaps.

1. This is what it should look like on the reverse side.

5. Lastly I glued the 2 larger flaps down (put glue on the patterned side).

I then decorated the pocket with a ribbon, bow and stamped image.

I then made the ribbon circle for the sentiment.

1. First I cut a small circle out of a piece of scrap white card.

2. I then cut 6 lengths of varying ribbons to the same length (mine were 12cm, so that my circle ended up 6cm). I then glued one end of one piece of ribbon from the center to the right of the white card circle.

3. I then repeated with the other end.

4. I then applied a dot of glue over the ribbon end join, and pressed the ribbon down onto it in the center.

5. Next select another piece of ribbon.

6. Repeat steps 2 to 4 making the ribbon crisscross over the first.

7. Repeat with all ribbons until you end up with something like this. Make sure you either use a peg, clip or put some weight on the circle to hold ribbons in place until it is dry (I used my glue bottle for this).

Next I made a "Merry Christmas" Sentiment in Photoshop, printed it on white card, cut it out, glued it to the ribbon circle and applied glitter glue to the text. I then coloured in a free reindeer Digi Stamp from Little Scraps Of Heaven Designs in Photoshop, printed it on white card and trimmed it into a square. I then matted it to a square of red paper and glued it to the top left of my card. I then attached 2 red ribbons to the bottom and right side of my card. Lastly I used double sided tape to attach my ribbon circle sentiment to the bottom right of my card.

I had so much fun creating this card and would like to thank the DT at Willow Sketchie Challenge and my Mum for a great challenge. Good luck to all that enter. :D

Button Circles Christmas Card

Here's my second entry in this week's Willow Sketchie Challenge which I also made today. Had two ideas and couldn't decide between them, so made both. Hope you all like it. :D

Button Circles Christmas Card

I used a white card as my base card. I then stuck a red and a green ribbon across the bottom of the card. I then made a red and a green bow which I stuck to the alternate coloured ribbon. I then cut 4 circles out of white card (1 large, 1 slightly smaller, 1 small and one slightly smaller than that). I glued the 2 bigger ones together (smaller one on top) and the 2 smaller ones together (smaller one on top again). Next I overlapped the smaller circles onto the big ones and glued it into place.

I then glued red and green buttons all around the small circle (using the smaller circle which I glued to it as a guide), and then around the edge of the large circle (once again using the smaller circle which I glued to it as a guide). Next I coloured in a Free My Memories Of Days Gone By Santa Digi in Photoshop, printed it on white card, trimmed around it and glued it to the center of the larger circles. Lastly I made a "Merry Christmas" sentiment in Photoshop, printed it on white card, trimmed around it and glued it to the center of the smaller circles.

Had heaps of fun making this card, was good to get to use some of my buttons too. I would once again like to thank Clairebears from Willow Sketchie Challenge for a fantastic recipe and sketch. Good luck to all that enter. :D

2 Ribbons And A Button Christmas Card

This is the card that I made today as my first entry in this week's Willow Sketchie Challenge. The sketch came with a recipe this week "2 ribbons and a button". Hope you all like it. :D

2 Ribbons And A Button Christmas Card

I used a white card as my base card, which I covered in red and white polka dot paper. I glued a red 'Merry Christmas' ribbon across the bottom of the card (ribbon no 1). Next I cut out 1 large and 1 small circle out of green paper, and 2 slightly smaller circles out of white card. I then glued the white circles to the center of the green ones.

I then coloured in a Free Sliekje Christmas kitty Digi Stamp using Photoshop, printed it on white card, trimmed around it and glued it to the large circle. I also made a "Merry Christmas" sentiment in Photoshop, printed it on white card, trimmed around it and glued it to the smaller circle. I then glued both the circles on to the card. Lastly I threaded a green ribbon (ribbon no 2) through a red button (a button) and glued it to the bottom of the large circle.

I had fun making this card, and would like to thank Clairebears from Willow Sketchie Challenge for a great recipe and sketch. I would also like to say goodbye to Kate and Clairebears, I'll miss you girls, good luck in all your future crafting :-* Good luck to all that enter :D

Merry Christmas Reindeer Card

Cutting it very close for this entry I know, but I have been very sick with Tonsilitis and haven't been able to craft. :( Anyway finally got it done, so here's my entry in this week's The Crafty Bloggers Network sketch challenge. Hope you all like it. :D

Merry Christmas Reindeer Card

I used a white card as my base card. I then cut 2 squares (6.5 x 6.5cm) out of red and white polka dot paper and another 2 out of a free candy cane striped paper from Free Digital Scrapbooking. I then glued them to the middle of the card to form a square. Next I attached a red Christmas themed ribbon across the middle of the card. I then cut a square (11 x 11cm) out of a free green swirl paper from Free Digital Scrapbooking. I cut a slightly smaller square (10 x 10cm) out of white card and glued it to the green square. I then pierced all around the white card using my single Cutter Bee Bug and threaded thin silver cord through it. I then attached the squares to the card using double sided foam tape.

For the flourishes I used a glitter sticker pack I found at a bargain store. I coloured in my Free Reindeer Digi Stamp using Photoshop, printed it on white card and trimmed around it. I then glued it to a die cut green star, and glued the star to the card as well. I then cut 2 medium stars out of silver foil card and glued them to the card on either side of the big green star. Next I stuck a green glitter star to the silver star on the left. Lastly I cut 2 pieces of Merry Christmas ribbon and glued them across the left side of the green and white square.

Apart from being sick I did enjoy making this card, and I would like to thank the DT at The Crafty Bloggers Network for another great challenge. Good luck to all that enter. :D

All I Want For Christmas Is You Card

Finally got round to finishing my entry for this week's Willow Sketchie Challenge. After much thought (and not much time to do it in, as has been a busy week again) I decided to make the 2 parallel rectangles that go down the card into a mirror and put a sexy Christmasy girl on the front, with an 'All I want for Christmas is you' sentiment, that way the recipient (my boyfriend) will see them self on the mirror card, and hence they become part of the card. ;) Hope you all like it. :D

All I Want For Christmas Is You Card

I used a white card as my base card and then covered the front with a free Candy Cane striped paper from Free Digital Scrapbooking. Next I cut my 2 mirrors out of silver mirror card and glued one each side of the card. I then stuck a red and white heart ribbon across the center of the card. I stuck a red glitter heart sticker to the top left and bottom right corners of my card.

I enlarged and printed a Popeye Wong image (won't post the link here, as some are for 18+ only) and printed it on white card. As she had a rather short skirt in the original image, I decided to make her a nice long flowing one, which I cut out of red and white polka dot paper. I then glued a piece of white fluffy fibre to the bottom of the skirt to give it a nice fluffy trimming. I made a red "All I want for Christmas is you" sentiment in Photoshop, printed it on white card and then trimmed around it. I then stamped the lips onto a piece of white card using red ink, and trimmed around it too. I cut a rectangle out of white card and glued the Popeye Wong image down the right side and the sentiment and lips down the left. Lastly I matted the white rectangle onto a piece of red foil card and then attached it to the card using double sided foam tape.

Although it was a relatively easy card to make, I had fun coming up with the idea of a way for the recipient to become a part of the card. I would like to thank Pauline from Willow Sketchie Challenge for a great sketch. Sorry I didn't have more time to make a big wow card Pauline, it's coming into that hectic Season again. ;) Good luck to all that enter :D

Reindeer Triptych Card

Here's the card I made today for my entry in The Crafty Bloggers Network 'All The Two's' challenge. I decided what better way to express the theme than a Triptych card. Hope you all like it. :D

Reindeer Triptych Card

For this card I used a piece of white card (30 x 15cm) as my base card, I then folded 7.5cm in on both sides. Next I covered both sides of the front of the card with a free red star Christmas Paper (which I printed on white card) from Free Digital Scrapbooking. I then coloured in a free reindeer Digi Stamp (x 2) from Little Scraps Of Heaven Designs using Photoshop, printed them on white card and trimmed them into a square. Next I glued the Digi's onto a free green swirl Christmas patterned paper (which I printed on white card) from Free Digital Scrapbooking. I then trimmed it into a square slightly larger than the Digi's. I then glued half of one Digi to the top of the right flap, and half of the other Digi to the bottom of the left flap. I made a 'Merry Christmas' Sentiment using Photoshop which I glued to the middle of each side. Lastly I cut the backs off 2 small Christmas tree brads, 2 large Christmas tree brads and 2 green circle brads and glued one of each to the bottom right and one of each to the top left.

I had fun making this card and trying a new technique, and I would like to thank the DT at The Crafty Bloggers Network for another fantastic challenge. Good luck to all that enter. :D

Santa In Chimney Shaker Card

I made this card tonight for my entry in this week's Willow Sketchie Challenge. As I had so much fun making last week's shaker card I decided to make another. Hope you all like it. :D

Santa In Chimney Shaker Card

I used a white card as my base card. I cut a rectangle out of blue and white polka dot paper and glued it to the center of my card. Next I cut a rectangle out of white pearl paper (for the house) and a trapezoid out of brown metallic paper (for the roof). I then cut 2 rectangles out of either side of the white pearl rectangle (for the windows) and one in the center at the bottom (for the door).

I then cut out the window frames and door out of brown metallic paper. I glued the door to another piece of brown metallic paper and left a 5mm flap down one side. I then pushed and glued the flap to the back of the left side of the doorway. Next I glued on the window frames. I then coloured in 2 free Sliekje Digi Stamps (the girl and the boy) and a free Little Scraps Of Heaven Designs Christmas Tree Digi Stamp using Photoshop. I printed them on white card and cut them out into rectangles big enough to fit behind the windows and door. I then glued them to the back of the house behind the windows and door. Next I glued the house and roof to my card.

For the shaker I cut an oval out of green and white polka dot card, and another oval out of the center of it. I then coloured in my free Santa In Chimney and Santa Sack Digi Stamps using Photoshop. I printed them on white card, trimmed around them and glued them onto the roof of the house. Next I glued plastic transparency to the back of the oval, and once dry trimmed around it. I then put double sided foam tape all around the back of my oval, and trimmed around the outside. Next I stuck the bottom half of the oval to the card, and filled it with the shaker ingredients (I used mini diamonte stars, diamontes, foil stars and glass bead balls) from the top of the oval. I then stuck down the top of the shaker. I cut the back off 3 silver star brads and glued them onto the oval. Lastly I made a "Santa is coming" sentiment, which I glued to the top left of the card.

This was another extremely fun card to make and I think I am hooked on shaker boxes... Lol. ;) I would like to say a massive thanks to Lisa from Willow Sketchie Challenge for another inspiring sketch. Good luck to all that enter. :D

Christmas Advent Shaker Card

Here's the card that I have been slowly making the past few days for my entry in this week's Willow Sketchie Challenge. I wanted to do something a bit out there and this week's sketch gave me the idea of a Christmas Advent style shaker card. Hope you all like it. :D

Christmas Advent Shaker Card

 

Advent Shaker Card Tutorial

1. I used an A4 sheet of white card to make the card itself. I drew a line 14cm from both top and bottom of the sheet, this created a strip down the middle for the card fold. I then also drew a line 14cm in from one side of sheet. I then cut the excess off.

2. I then folded along both lines either side of the card fold strip.

3. Next I turned the card over and drew up a grid for my advent windows (each window was 4 x 4cm).

4. I then cut the windows out using a craft knife and cutting mat. 

I then covered the front of the card with patterned paper (I chose red with white polka dots) and once it was stuck on I then cut the windows out of it as well. I glued a strip of metallic green handmade paper across the middle of the card. I then cut a circle out of white and green polka dot paper to put under the digi and glued it on, and once again cut the windows out of it.

5. I used the squares I cut out of the windows to make the doors. First I glued them onto a piece of metallic brown paper and then cut them out.

6. I then glued the reverse side to a piece of A4 computer paper.

7. I then cut them out again, leaving a 5mm flap on one side. I then sat them on top of the windows and pushed and glued the flaps to the inside of the card.

8. On a piece of white card I measured out the templates for the shaker boxes and cut them out (I made them in strips of 3 and cut them out individually before attaching them to the card, there were 6 boxes in total). I then cut tabs into the zig zag corners of each and glued them up into little boxes.

9. I then glued plastic transparency across the windows to the back of the card. Next I glued papers and embellishments to the inside of my boxes. Once dry I added my shaker ingredients (I used glitter, mini diamonte stars, diamontes, foil stars and glass bead balls). I then glued each box to the back of the card and glued scraps of paper over any gaps.

I used a hole punch to make the door handles out of gold paper. I then finished off my card by gluing 3 green star diamontes to the metallic green handmade paper strip, and my elf digi to the circle. The elf digi I made myself and is available here.

This is the funnest card I have ever made, and possibly one of the best and I would like to thank Kate from Willow Sketchie Challenge for a very inspiring sketch. :-* Good luck to all that enter. :D