Patchwork Pals Christmas

These Christmas cards were also in my discovery Christmas box - see previous Christmas posts!  I think the Patchwork Pals Christmas artwork by Kanban is so cute, and easy to work with.

Choose a background and layer up the various die cut bits - brill!

Happy Crafting - Anna :o)

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Christmas Snowmen (& Dove!) - Stickers

More from my discovery box . . .  

I remember having some stickers left over from a previous year and wanting to use them up.  

Just like the stickers on my Purple Christmas - Sticker post, these stickers were small, under 1" and possibly 2 cm square from Docrafts.  Also, these may no longer be available?  

So, as with the Purple Christmas - Sticker post, I mounted them onto card.  This time, red proved to be the best colour for the mat underneath them.  

As the silver border of the sticker was etched, I didn't think that embossing the red mat with a QuicKutz Goosebumpz would work well, just too fussy? So I left it plain.

But, what to do with them now?  I only had a few stickers left and they were nearly all the same.

I had 5" x 5" white cards - the stickers were still small, even after matting them onto the red card and would be lost on the cards - it would help if they were larger.

Looking through my stash, I found a sheet of silver linen effect matt card, which looked like it would go nicely (matching the silver border on the stickers). Using a Nestabilities Square Scallop die, cut it out and used it for the base mat.

Finally, I adhered the layers onto the centre of the card.


All done!

Happy Crafting - Anna :o)

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Christmas Tree & Christmas Wreath

Another card from my Christmas discovery box!

This was really straight forward to make, although it did take time to colour in!

I used Sakura pens - metallic so there is a soft shimmer to the colours, which the photo hasn't really brought out :o(

A white 5" x 5" card - good quality which doesn't mind getting a bit wet, this one is from Kanban.




How I put it all together

I placed the white peel-off sticker down onto the card and started to colour it in by placing some of the ink on the edges of the peel-off.  While still wet, dragging the colour across with a damp paint brush.  So not too much ink was used.

I grounded the tree with black ink.

The trees baubles were given a 3D look with a dot of glitter glue on each one and glitter inside the star. (Suze Weinbergs Pure Glitz and Stickles).

Done!

See below a peel-off wreath completed in the same way.

Happy Crafting - Anna :o)

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Purple Christmas - Stickers

I feel I'm soooo late posting my Christmas cards to far away places this year, they're on their way now, so, I can relax, sit down, and add another post to my blog!  I made most of my Christmas cards earlier in the year, put them away and forgot about them.  So I was pleasantly surprised when I rediscovered them - and even more surprised when I remembered how I'd made them :o))

There is a purple and silver theme to this little set - all due to the stickers - from Docrafts, although I think they are no longer available?


Each sticker is small, under an inch square (possibly 2cm in metric), so they look really lost on a card.  So to help them become more, I decided to mat them onto card stock and  found a matching lilac card.

Some of the stickers have a clear background which meant the pretty image would be lost on the lilac card, so I placed these down on white card first and cut them out.

I cut the lilac card into strips and then into squares, placing a white paper backed sticker on one of them, thought they looked a bit plain, so using a QuicKutz Goosebumpz (GB-013), added the swirly texture - which is just the right scale for such a small sticker.

After lots of hand pressing with the QuicKutz hand press and the Goosebumpz textured plates, I adhered all the stickers in the centre of the embossed squares.

I had a few 3" x 8" cards and played about, laying the stickers out in different configurations until I settled on the ones you can see.  

On some I've added a silver peel-off line and on one used a snowflake border punch (with double sided tape on the inside edge, sprinkled with silver glitter).

Note to self - remember to use the above again for small stickers!




Happy Crafting - Anna :o)


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Cute Rabbit Holding a Daisy

I put this card together for a poorly friend using a little decoupage kit I'd had from Docrafts - it could have been included inside one of their goody bags?


The only thing I added was the card blank, glossy accents and glitter!


Materials and Tools:
Daisy & Dandelion Decoupage kit
5x5 inch white card blank
1mm deep sticky pads for the decoupage layers
Adhesive
Craft knife
Glossy Accents
Ice Stickles - Lemon Ice


How I put it all together:

1. Basically, I followed the layer guide from the decoupage sheet, using the 1mm high pads to layer the rabbit up.
2. From the matching papers, chose the daisy one and marked the size for this mat on the paper using the card blank as a guide - and cutting slightly smaller so I could cut around the pre printed daisy on the ribbon.
3. Placed the layers on the card and thought it looked a little too plain, so tried the matching stripy paper underneath.  I thought it looked much better, so glued the stripy paper down and cut away the excess with a craft knife.
4. Next glued the pretty daisy paper in place followed by the rabbit decoupage.
5. The card still needed something extra, so I used a similar glitter colour to the daisy centres - Ice Stickles (Lemon Ice) - in the centre of each of them
6. Finally, Glossy Accents over the rabbits nose and eyes - I put this on with a cocktail stick as they are so small and the drop of Glossy Accents was so too big!

Happy crafting , Anna :o)

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