Have A Holly Jolly Christmas ~ Spellbinders Holly Wreath Makey Bakey Mice Christmas

Hello bloggers I don't know about you but yesterday seemed to fly by so quickly I hardly achieved anything.  Today I have a decoupage card featuring a Christmas wreath.

This card began as a length of glossy card stock that I cut and scored to make card blank 13cm x13.5cm.  Next using several different green papers and card stocks from my scrap bin I die cut the wreaths with Spellbinders Die d-lites 'holly wreath' die set.    The different layers were then layered up off set with foam pads to give it height and dimension.  Next using some self made red foiled card stock I die cut the faux bow with the same die set as above.  This was then adhered to the bottom of the wreath.  The whole wreath was the adhered to the card.

Next I cut a 1" strip of white card stock to fit across the top of the card.  I stamped the sentiment using festive berries distress ink and Crafter's Companion  Makey Bakey Mice 'holly jolly Christmas' stamp set  The edges of the sentiment strip were inked with the same ink pad.  I die cut 6 of the faux bows from the same self made foiled card stock.  These were layered up into sets of 3 and one set was adhered at each end of the strip.  The sentiment strip was then adhered towards the top of the card.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

A Christmas Sleigh Ride ~ Easel card

Hello bloggers today I have a sweet sleigh ride easel card for you.

This card began as a white 5x7 card blank.  I scored the front in half vertically to make an easel card.  First I cut some panels of gold glitter card to cover the outside and inside of the card.  The panels were adhered into place making sure that the card was able to still fold where needed.   Next the topper was die cut using Spellbinders 'labels 17' die set and an old Christmas card that I wanted to recycle.  Using some red polka dot card stock I cut a mat for the topper using Spellbinders 'labels 20' die set.  The mat and topper were added to the bottom of the card front  to ensure that it was still able to fold.  Inside the card I needed to add a stopper for the card to sit in.  For this I used my sentiment which was stamped onto white card stock using festive berries distress ink and Crafter's Companion Makey Bakey Mice ' holly jolly Christmas' stamp set. once stamped it was die cut with Spellbinders 'labels 20' die set.  Once die cut the edges were inked with festive berries distress ink.  Next I cut a mat for the topper from some Christmas card stock and used Spellbinders 'labels 20' die set.  The mat was adhered to the card stock and then the topper was mounted onto using foam tape to give it a bit  more height in order to act as the stopper.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

Makey Bakey Mice Holly Jolly Christmas

Hello bloggers I hope you all had a lovely day yesterday, I spent the day at the allotment which was lovely.  Today's card is another card using the amazing Makey Bakey Mice stamps from Crafter's Companion.

This card began as a white A5 card blank.  First I cut down to size and adhered some polka dot backing paper that I printed off the Makey Bakey Mice CD-ROM.  Next I stamped the topper onto some white card stock using black soot distress ink and Crafter's Companion 'makey bakey mice holly jolly Christmas' stamp set.  I then coloured the image using ProMarkers.  It was then die cut using Spellbinders 'hexagons' die set.  After die cutting I inked the edges with a ProMarker.  Next I used some white card stock to die cut the snowflake using Spellbinders 'snowflake pendant 2010' die set.  Once die cut I stamped the 'deck the halls' sentiment into the center of the snowflake using black soot distress ink.  Next I die cut the holly embellishments using some green card stock and Spellbinders 'holly motifs' die set.  Once these were die cut I inked them with pine needles distress ink as I didn't have the correct shade of green card stock.   The holly corners were adhered to three corners of the card. Finally I stamped the sentiment onto white card stock using black soot distress ink.  It was then die cut using Spellbinders 'back to basic tags' die set.  I inked the edges with a ProMarker.  The four leafed holly embellishment was added to the tag with a metal snowflake brad.  The tag was then adhered to the card.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel