Christmas

Glitter & Snowflakes

Hello. Some more time in my craft room to create this card inspired by the current challenge at Festive Friday. You are given a list of items, and you have to use at least three form the list.

Here is their list:

Here is my card using Something glittery, detailed die cuts, jewels, and vellum:

I used a lot of the white glitter card from a local merchant – Pink Frog Crafts – as I love that this is low-shed – and I can colour it with my Copics….

I started by die cutting the snowflakes from The Greetery (Snipped Snowflakes) and from Pinkfresh Studio (Large Snowflakes) from the white glitter card, also die cutting one from Vellum.

One of the snowflakes I took a blue Copic marker and coloured it. I dabbed, more than swiped of brushed, to try and protect the nib.

The background panel was die cut out of the same glitter card and using Pinkfresh Studio ‘Snowflakes‘ cover plate. This was adhered directly onto a white card base.

The scalloped circle is from The Greetery ‘Shortbread Shapes: Scalloped Hearts‘ and die cut out of vellum.

I put this together by adding the snowflakes together, including the vellum one, then adding them using glue behind the large snowflake onto the vellum. This was then glued down onto the glittery panel on the card base.

I added gems around the edge of the scalloped circle, also adding a gem into the centre of the snowflakes.

The final touch was to add the silver foiled sentiment.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Festive Friday – pick at least three items from the list – vellum, detailed die cuts, jewels, something glittery

A Cut Above – anything goes with die cuts

Christmas Crafts All Year Round – Christmas with V &/or W – V is for Vellum

Have A Holly Jolly Christmas

Hello everyone, I have a card to share using products from the recent SCT Holiday 2026 event.

Firstly, this event was not purely for card making, but I was intrigued by the ‘Holiday Circle Album’ class by Virginia Nebel. This is meant to be a memory creation, adding photographs to certain parts of the album – which is something I never do. I do not create memory albums or scrapbooking pages, so this was really out of my comfort zone.

Here are pictures of the finished project – not my own design, not my own layouts – but the effect is quite sweet. This was my first attempt, and it requires a little tweaking – but I like how it turned out – I may even go so far as to print some photos and add them:

So the card I made was using some of the papers and ephemera from the kit – and just letting things flow:

As the album was created by cutting 10.25 inch circles from the 12×12 papers, I had some leftovers, and used some of them for the background, adding pieces and parts to cover the white card base.

I then chose some other items from the kit, including the red chip board frame, and the white circle sentiment added with 3D foam. The poinsettia is acetate, also from the kit and had a sticky back, and the enamel dots were added on the white sentiment.

I actually had fun putting the album together, then playing with the pieces – though there are absolutely loads more to be used. I have them out on my desk still, and may play a little more before putting them away…..

Lil Patch Of Crafty Friends – anything goes

Jingle Belles Rock – Christmas and leftovers

Love Those Pretty Papers – patterned papers, option of coffe/tea/drinks not taken

Merry Little Christmas Challenge – anything goes Christmas

Ho Ho Ho

I have a purely die cutting Christmas card to share following colour inspiration from Color Hues with red & green – certain neutrals are also allowed:

I started by creating the Santa from a Spellbinders die set ‘Big Jolly Santa‘. I chose to use white glitter card for the fluffy elements of his clothes, and set him aside to work on the background.

The panel behind the scene was created using a Spellbinders embossing folder, and adhered flat.

The trees and snowy slopes were created using die cuts from MFT ‘Snowy Scene Builder’, with the slopes die cut from the same white glitter card, and the trees die cut from two shades of green/ I did back each of the trees with another white layer as the card used was quite thin.

The three ‘Ho Ho Ho‘ die cuts were also from MFT from a set with that name, die cut from white glitter card, each one backed with a white layer.

To put everything together, I adhered the back snowy slope with 3D foam, added the top slope with glue and 3D foam, then attached Santa.

The three words were glued flat to the embossed panel, then the trees also added with glue.

The final step was to add black gems for the two buttons on his tunic, and a red gem to the centre of each word.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Color Hues – red & green

Craft Rocket – Christmas and/or Winter

Daisy Chain – Christmas and/or Winter

Dragonfly Dreams – embossing – wet or dry

Christmas Winter Scene

Hello. Another card I was able to put together over the past few days, even though it did take me quite a while, with a few techniques involved.

For this scene, I used a Hero Arts kit which has been sitting in my drawer for ages. The kit came with the dies for the scene, three layers to create the scene, as well as the three peeking animals you can see. I couldn’t decide which animal to use – so I used all three.

To being with, I created the background panel. This was a toner sheet, onto which I used an iridescent foil, and then ink blended a dark blue over the foiling.

Whilst this was drying, I die cut the layers for the scene out of dark blue, lighter blue, and a grey.

I die cut the layers again using a white glitter card, and inlaid all those itty bitty lines. I do like to make things difficult – I could have just backed each panel with the white glitter, but no – I went the hard way. Actually, this was quite therapeutic once I figured out how to do it…….behind each panel, I attached double sided sticky tape, then just placed all those lines. I even added some of the stars into the dark blue background layer….

The layers were glued together, and then the peeking animals were die cut from the same white glitter card, and attached as you see.

The sentiment is black foil, and then die cut and layered twice more, before adding.

I then added some black gems over the smaller gaps in the background which were too small for me to inlay.

I do like how this turned out, even though it was fiddly – my fault – and those peeking animals are just so cute.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Make My Monday – winter animals

Aud Sentiments – Stencils and/or Christmas and a sentiment (Christmas and a sentiment)

Crafty Animals – anything goes with an animal

A Cut Above – anything goes with die cuts

Unicorn Challenge – Christmas and/or Winter

Kitten’s First Christmas

Hello again. This card was inspired by my three new kittens, and the current challenge at 52CCT – for a Christmas mini scene with shaped dies:

For the scene itself, I used a Hero Arts Looking Glass die set ‘Holiday Kitten’. I did have to watch a video or two to remind me how to use and align these to create the scene.

I die cut the three layers from white card stock, into A2 panels, using the Hero Arts ‘alignment tool’ stencil. I also used this stencil to ink blend the dark blue at the back of the scene.

These layers were then coloured with my Zigs, and gold paint applied to the top of the baubles. The cat was ink blended in a light brown. All the layers were glued directly down.

The baubles and greenery were swiped over with a gold glitter pen. The top panel was die cut with the window, then run through with a Spellbinders embossing folder.

The next step was to create the gold frame, and for this I used another Hero Arts die set ‘Wood Frame Infinity’ but I had to use some partial die cutting to make it square, as the frames in this set are rectangular. It turned out to be quite effective.

The sentiment is from Spellbinders, the shadow layer die cut out of vellum, and the words out of the gold card stock to match the frame.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

52CCT – Christmas and mini scene with shaped dies

Crafty Animals – anything goes with an animal

Merry Little Christmas Challenge – anything goes Christmas

Christmas Easel Card

Hello. Having just adopted three 18 weeks old Kittens, my time has been taken up with them recently. Now they are settling in, and our other 11 years old cat is ‘tolerating’ them,I have been able to get back into my craft room.

I had a holly berry branch left over after playing with some products from The Greetery, and decided to change my usual style of card to an easel card:

As I already had the holly sprig created, I wanted to keep it as the centre of attention. When I put the piece together, I added some ink blending of a darker green towards the base of the holly leaves, and darker red to the berries.

I created the easel card base, then added gold glitter card stock for little bling effect.

The white pieces were run through with a Spellbinders embossing folder ‘Festive Greetings‘ which has Christmas sayings and words, picking where I wanted the main ‘Merry Christmas’ word to be embossed, which is quite easy when you have such a large embossing folder.

The white piece used as the stopper for the easel part is raised with 3D foam.

The view when the card is closed (but refuses to lay flat!):

I shall be entering the following challenges:

CYHTP – embossing folder, option of numbers not taken

Peace On Earth – anything goes Christmas

Unicorn Challenge – Christmas and/or Winter

Daisy Chain – Christmas and/or Winter

Purple Snowflakes

Hello everyone. It is time for the new challenge at ABC Christmas Challenge. We have reached the letters ‘U‘ & ‘V; and want to see your Christmas creations following one of both of the following themes:

U is for Unused Stash & V is for Violet (purple)

Here is my card:

I began by creating the background panel, as it needed to dry. Taking a Funky Fossil stencil, I spread some iridescent glitter paste through, then out it to one side.

The two large snowflakes are from a Bibi Cameron die set from several years ago, and using Concord & 9th card stock, then die cutting some smaller snowflakes in a silver glitter card.

The snowflakes were added as you see, and the final touch was to add the foiled sentiment.

I hope you can come and join us with your creations – they have to be Christmas themed, and they have to follow one or both of our chosen themes to be in with a chance of winning the prize -drawn randomly from the entries.

Christmas & New Year

Hello once again. I have a card to share as Guest Designer for 52CCT. The new Christmas theme is:

Here is my card:

Now, this theme stumped me for a few days. How to get those numbers onto a Christmas card…….I tried a couple of ways, but finished with this one – I did have to check with the 52CCT design team if it was ok……..I obviously needed some reassurance….

I began by stenciling the background panel. This is from a layering stencil set by Kristina Werner called ‘Holiday Icons‘. I used the same light blue/teal colour for the different layers, not using all of them, and then on one layer I used Tim Holtz Distress sparkle paste.

This was set aside to dry, then I concentrated on die cutting the other elements.

The holly and Berry sprigs are from The Greetery, and the numbers are cut from gold glitter card using a Tim Holtz/Sizzix set, cut a couple more times out of white to layer them up.

Now to arrange…..I gold foiled the sentiment and used a circle die. This would enable me to arrange and tuck the holly sprigs. I stuck this down with a piece of 3D foam in the centre, and arranged the holly around it, adding glue to the bases, and then glued down the numbers.

I hope you can come and join the team for this theme – I am interested in how this is interpreted. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Stencil Fun – use stencils, option of mainly yellow not taken

Addicted To Stamps & More – make your mark

Craft Rocket – use dies

Merry Little Christmas Challenge – anything goes Christmas

Snowmen & Transport

Hello again. We have a new challenge starting at ABC Christmas Challenge. Or Christmas themes this time are:

S is for Snowmen

T is for Transport

Here are my cards:

For my snowmen card, I used a die and embossing folder set from Simon Says Stamp. The images were die cut, coloured with Copics, ink blended round the edge of each snowman, then ran each through the embossing folder.

The background panel is white glitter card – the oval die cut from the centre before adding the patterned paper – covered up the oval missing piece nicely – oval added, then the snowmen added with 3D foam.

The sentiment was stamped then die cut.

For my second card – very die cut heavy – I used a Spellbinders die set from their ‘All Aboard’ kit from several years ago.

All the elements were die cut and assembled – took quite a while – all those itty bitty pieces – then put to one side whilst I thought about the background

I chose a couple of pieces of patterned paper – cream and a lilac shade -ran through with a Spellbinders embossing folder, cut down to 5×7 inch landscape, adding a strip of gold glitter card.

The train was added with 3D foam – this too was a little fiddly to get everything as lined up as I could, then the glitter words and stars added. These were die cut sticky glitter.

I hope you can come and join us with your Christmas creations following one of both of our themes. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Snowman card:

Peace On Earth – Anything goes Christmas

Christmas Crafts All Year Round – Christmas with R & S – snowman

Merry Little Christmas Challenge – anything goes Christmas

Train card:

Addicted To Stamps & More – dies cuts and/or stencils

Daisy Chain Challenge – transportation

Craft Rocket – use dies

Mix It Up – anything goes, option of embossing taken

Jolly Greetings

Hello again. I may not have posted for a few days, but I have been playing in my craft room. I thought it was time to play with my Spellbinders BetterPress system again, and created a lot of backgrounds and sentiments – all ready to go for future cards.

Whilst playing, I found the package from recent ‘Oh! What Fun‘ event, so decided to use some of the rub-ons and ephemera in the kit to enter the current challenge at 52CCT, which is a sketch challenge.

Here is the sketch:

and here is my card:

The two rectangles and the two squares were die cut with Gina K Designs Master Series dies which gave a stitched edge

Once cut, I then used rub-on images for the squares, adding a rub-on sentiment too. I then chose two ephemera pieces from that kit – larger and longer – more suited to the size of the rectangles.

Before adding the ephemera, I used a Spellbinders embossing folder on a white 7×5 inch panel, and ran a small light blue ink cube over the embossed panel to highlight some of the detail.

I ink blended the same blue along the bottom of each square and rectangle, then ran those pieces through the same embossing folder.

The ephemera were added to the rectangles, and all four pieces adhered to the background embossed panel. The final touch being the sentiment.

As an aside, I am going to join the Mona Toth online class this weekend to teach me how to take better photos of my cards – I really struggle with lighting – so hopefully these will be better once I have completed the class.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

52CCT – sketch

CYHTP – embossing folder, option of bees not taken

Peace On Earth – anything goes Christmas

Christmas Cards All Year Round – Christmas with R & S – rub-ons & snowflakes