What an absolute bumper year of big birthdays, I don’t think I’ve ever made this many before or will again for 10 years lol.
I had to finish on an old favourite although this is a new colour scheme for me, it’s the first time I’ve used navy and I really like it.
My cousin has two tone hair that’s why I’ve coloured it blond and dark in case you thought it was a hat lol.
This card was made the same time as yesterday’s so you will be able to see the theme lol. I think maybe three reindeer was excessive but I couldn’t help myself lol. Please let me know why I fussy cut these deer as I had the matching dies!
A completely different card than I was going for but I like it and it’s simple too. Sometimes over complicating things doesn’t make it better.
This is the final set of cards and they are an eclectic mix from lots of different companies, when I was making these ones I was looking for specific images or themes, this is definitely something I will do again although I might leave it a few years
Two cards from Stacey Yacula at MFT, these are an older set but this gives them a new lease of life.
Another day another set of striped cards, I think this might be my favourite set so far. Not sure why I didn’t think to do other colours of stripes but maybe soon lol.
This set is from Sugar Pea Designs and I really want to colour them now, there is another design but it was to fiddly to fussy cut so that is next year.
Yet another Mangocraft set and this time there are some circle sentiments, and before you guess yes I stamped them incorrectly and had to compromise and I really like it lol.
Another set of Mangocraft stamps and another fiddly design lol, I did use the sentiments from the stamp set this time as I have managed to loose the merry Christmas stamp
I really like the colours on this one, reminds me of denim. I did have fun creating these and now I suppose I need to start planning next year!!!
I discovered a stamp company called Mangocraft in the summer and I like their designs a lot but they are fiddly to colour so this design worked perfectly. I even had the dies for these designs, which is so unusual.
Now I know these cards don’t seem to be from the same stamp set and they aren’t lol but they are from the same company and I spotted them when putting away the penguin set. Both seemed perfect for the recipients and I hope they like them
As I was putting away the Santa stamp set I spotted this set of penguins by the same company so of course they needed a complete set of cards lol.
These images were in the same stamp set as the Santa so it seemed a shame to not use them as well, after making these few cards I went into full on batch mode and made all my posting cards using this design, I will be showing them over the next few days as they all look a little different.
I watched a video by Carissa Wiley and she made some cards using cardstock stripes and a black and white image and I thought they looked stunning, very elegant and understated.
If you’ve been here for a while you will know my penchant for stripes so it seemed like a match made in heaven lol.
I even had a similar stamp set to the one she used so I made these few cards and as you will see over the next several days I couldn’t stop making them lol.
Not much to say here except I ran out of red bases so decided to try the green and I really like it. This was one of the first designs I made this year and I might make more ready for next year as it was so effective.
I used the larger limetree cards again this time the red ones and made a few of this design, I am trying to only make smaller batches this year as I need to use some of the hundreds of christmas stamps and dies I own. Lets see if that is still the case at the end of december lol.
I used the hero arts wreath stencil, I was originally going to over stamp with the stamp set but decided it worked exactly as it is.
This card design used all stuff I could find after moving from my tiny craftroom to my new space and I am still trying to find my way around having twice as much space and wondering how I ever fitted into the previous room lol.
The die and papers were from Die Cutting essentials magazine and the card bases from limetree, they came together really quickly and I liked the larger size too.
My first Christmas card of 2024 and made in July.... I really wanted to make more but I ran out of steam and mojo lol.
This was such a simple design and quick too so hopefully I will have made a few more by now.
I can scarcely believe its december already, it was june yesterday or so it feels anyway, I am hoping that all of my cards are almost made and I can enjoy december without rushing around...who am i kidding lol
