Showing posts with label Creative Expressions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Creative Expressions. Show all posts

Sunday, 18 December 2022

Playday Jumpers

Every year I think I will go with a simple easy to produce design for the almost thirty playday cards I need to make and every year what is quick and easy on one certainly isn't on 30 lol.

I bought this set from Colorado Craft Company after seeing it in their "Christmas in July" release. I knew who I was going to use it for but not how until I saw a card made by the lady that owns "The Stamping Shed" and I thought I can adapt that lol.

I found a really old cable knit sweater embossing folder and it embossed the kraft card beautifully. Next of course it was the notched die and I wasn't going to have the white section too but the jumpers got lost in the background without it. The merry die is an old "papertrey Ink" one and didn't have the holes to poke the die out so they became a labour of love and took longer than all the other elements combined lol. And finally I was being tight and didn't buy the die as I thought its a simple image and easily fussy cut....after 30 I regretted that decision lol.

And finally I cheated with the christmas word, I couldn't face heat embossing 30 of them so I made them on my computer, printed them out and die cut them....cheating or what lol








Thursday, 15 December 2022

Paper-pieced Christmas Version 2

You didn't expect yesterdays card to be the only version I made did you lol. Whilst chatting with friends and showing them the die they noticed the packaging had the words cut in red, black and white and it was stunning. I of course wanted to use the kraft card bases I had left over so I thought why not ivory, cranberry and pine as a combo and it worked amazingly, also I got two for the price of one lol.




Wednesday, 14 December 2022

Paper-pieced Christmas

Can you believe I bought this die in the Country View Crafts advent sale in 2021 and cut all the pieces in January and only just assembled and made the cards. Of course in that time I have lost all the little inner bits but I still like it without them and the recipients aren't cardmakers so hopefully won't realise anything is missing. 

Its such a large image I really didn't add anything else to it.