I hope you are all well. This has been a very busy week for me. Invigilating takes quite a bit of time. Then there is my weekly visit to Winchester. Today I am doing two sessions of invigilating then I am heading into Southampton to meet my husband. Then we will meet up with our daughter and son-in-law to have a meal. After that we are all going to the theatre to see American Idiot. I hope it will be a good show.
Last week when I had a bit of time, I had a bit of a tidy of my crafty stash and I found a lovely piece of paper that would make a wonderful snowy background for a Christmas card.
The backing paper came from an old edition of Making Cards Magazine. I did find that I had another sheet of the paper so I may well recreate this card to add to my stash. I extended the Branched Birch die from Sizzix. Once the trees were cut I inked them with Distress Inks. Behind the trees I added a silver circle to create the moon.
I cut the deer from the Winter Wonderland die set from Sizzix out of craft card and inked them with Distress ink. I removed the antlers from one of the adult deer to make a female.
This is a die from Creative Expressions. I cut it in gold and another in brown to make a shadow, I do find that adding a shadow helps the sentiment to show up against a busy background.
I think I have made over 30 Christmas cards so far this year. All of them are flat and will small enough to go on ordinary postage. I don't want to get caught out like I did last year.
I would like to enter the following challenges:
I would have like to enter this card into the Rudolph Days Challenge but there isn't one this month. The lovely Maureen who hosts the challenge is having some surgery and needs time to recover.
Have a great weekend.
Happy Crafting
Hugs Jackie
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