Glittery tree

You've probably realised by now that I like quick, easy to make cards.  I will take my time and really craft some cards, but on the whole I like an easy life.

Today's card is probably one of the easiest ever!

I took the inner portion of the Christmas tree die from November's Hero Arts My Monthly Hero kit,  and cut it from white card.

I pulled up the branches for a little dimension then added loads of  Stickles in the colour tidings.  This is a gorgeous glittery gold.

Once dry I stamped and gold embossed a sentiment from the Festive Friend stamp set, which was free with a recent craft magazine.

I added the finished panel to a green card base to finish off.

I love how effective this is for such a simple idea.  Hope you do too.

TTFN Jude xx

Driving Home

Hello again.

I have another simple card to share today.

This uses the embossing folder, stamps and die from issue 181 of Simply Cards and Papercraft. 

I cut the truck from red card stock and the trees from a green shimmer card.

I then ran a piece of kraft card through the Big Shot using the embossing folder. 

 To give the trees more definition I coloured them with shades of green Copic markers.

I added a sentiment from the same set and adhered the truck with foam squares.

This was so quick but is really effective.

Hope you like it.

TTFN Jude xx

Foiled Christmas Cards

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good start to the week. I have a few cards for you today, but as I made all of them by printing text and images, and then foiling them, I thought I would put them all together in one blog post.

When I want a specific card, and don't have the stamps or dies, I always turn to my PC and use either SVG cut files or make something up on a word doc. Most of these cards are files that I have bought for my Silhouette Cameo machine, but as I rarely use it, I use them to print for foiling.

I take elements from different files and add them together to make the cards unique and mine, then I make sure everything is coloured black, with black lines and print them with the laser printer.

Then I can customise them using different colours, sentiments and embellishments.

Like this little reindeer, that I made a few cards with, but I did them all with different coloured foils and card.

I love this glitzy one, but foiled cards are very difficult to photograph due to shine, and shadows, so you don't really get how pretty it is in real life.

There are lots of images that can be used, and lots that you can write up yourself to make different designs, and I find it really fun.

I hope you like them, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Trees

Hello again.  

We're on the final countdown to Christmas and this week I have a few more cards to share with you.

This one is so simple!!

I started with a piece of green cardstock and inked the outer edges using black soot distress oxide, fading into evergreen bough towards the centre.

I took the outline Christmas tree from the Reindeer Games set by Mama Elephant and stamped all over the background using Versamark ink.  I then embossed with Hero Arts gold embossing powder.

The sentiment was cut from gold card stock and matted on to vellum.

I used the same gold card to layer the panel on to, then placed both on a dark green card base.

The finishing touch was some iridescent sequins from Lucy's cards.

Hope you like it.

TTFN Jude xx