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Sunday 30 August 2015

Christmas Penguins

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you are having a good weekend. Sadly my special plans did not work out so I have nothing exciting to share with you. So today I have been helping my daughter move out of her house in Winchester and into her boyfriend's house in Newbury. Unfortunately this has meant us having to store a lot of furniture at our house. We are still trying to think of the best way to fit it all in. I am sure there will be some trips to the tip. Tomorrow we are visiting a special friend who is not very well. So I will be making good use of the time I have gained.

I have been using Anita's Decoupage sheets again. They were in the bundle I received from Docrafts a few weeks ago. I think a lot of my Christmas cards will be coming from this bundle.


I forgot to take a picture of the sheet these two little sets came from. The penguins are very cute. Both cards are just under 6" x 6" this means they can be made from an A4 sheet. 


Here is a close up of the first card. I had some sparkle card left over from the 60th Anniversary cards I made recently and the backing paper I found in my snippet stash. The shiny blue card was in my Christmas snippets box. 


I used more of the glitter card it had been cut into squares that I just had to resize them for these cards. The backing paper was an off cut too. The decoupage for both cards I made up with a gel glue which is fine if they have time to dry if there isn't time there is always foam pads. 
  

That's another two cards for my stash. These will be ones that I hand out as they are a little to deep for posting. I make flatter cards for posting. 


Enjoy the rest of the weekend and the week ahead. I have quite a few 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

22 comments:

Dawn said...

Love your fun Christmas cards Jackie!
The images are so cute!
Hugs
Dawn xx

Laine said...

Such cute festive creations Jackie.
Laine
xx

Brawny x said...

Fabulous cards Jackie. X

Shabneez said...

Beautiful cards. Those penguins are so cute! Shabneez x

Sylvia said...

Love those cute penguines, great set of Christmas cards.

Sylv xx

karenlotty said...

Very cute I've been playing catch up over the last few days as ever I like what I see

pam said...

Two lovely Christmas cards Jackie, love these cute penguins.
Hugs Pam x

McCrafty's Cards said...

These are so gorgeous Jackie, the penguins are sweet
Kevin xx

Unknown said...

Hi Jackie two adorable cards. Such cute images and love the backing design. Hope you have a nice visit with your friend.hugs Jennifer xx

Jackie said...

A delightful pair of cards :o)
Jackie xx

Linda Simpson said...

These are gorgeous Jackie, I adore the cute penguins.
Hugs
Linda xx

Doreen said...

Two gorgeous Christmas cards Jackie.xxx

Di said...

These really are so cute Jackie! Love the decoupage of course and you made perfect backings for them too!

Hugs

Di xx

Unknown said...

Super cute cards Jackie. Love the backings you have used too.
Cathyxxx

Wheelie Crafty said...

Such lovely Christmas cards Jackie I am with you and that is not using traditional Christmas colours...

Hugs Sweetheart... xxx

Alison59 said...

Super cards :-)
Good luck with the move x

Holley (Tondre) Barnhart said...

Totally adorable penguins.

Carole Z said...

What lovely Christmas cards Jackie, love those penguins! am so sorry that my comments have been 'missing' lately: I've decided to write a post today and then I am taking a month off from blogging as I seriously need to 'recharge' my batteries, so apologies in advance for sporadic visits over the next month, I will be back! Hugs Carole Z X

KarinsArtScrap said...

these are super cute and very beautiful Jackie
Gr Karin

Barbara said...

Fab cards, Jackie.....really like them both xx

Carole Pollard said...

Just gorgeous love these toppers what great colours they look so lovely. Your designs are perfect. Hope you get your daughters furniture stored I still have stuff in our garage from when my son moved house 6 years ago beware !! Love and hugs Carole x

Andree said...

Both wonderful cards Jackie and great designs xx