doCrafts Christmas

Been playing with the Christmas goody bag. Just simple cards, trying to ease my way into the Christmas onslaught!

More Pinks

I was on a roll with the new Goody Bag so borrowed the neighbour's Big Shot (thanks Elaine!) and made two cards. Stamped the name onto Shrink Plastic (great fun) and inked one of the chipboard flowers with ink from the Bag. Pink textured cardstock from the bag.

Pink Birthday

The July doCrafts Goody Bag contains luscious hot pinks and reds cardstock just asking to be torn. Layered here on top of a piece of butterfly themed 12 x 12 also in the Goody Bag. Added a punched butterfly, glittered butterfly trails, and inked the edges of a scalloped circle with pink inks which were in the bag.

Godson's Birthday

This was a quick enough card to make. A4 cardstock, quarter folded in, cut out some decoupage from C & C and stuck on with 3D foam pads. The matching paper was layered onto some orange cardstock (love that orange cardstock - I have used it so much!).

Not shown is the laminated business card size brag book of my Godson's cutest photos which pops into the pocket made by the 'Just for You' decoupage. Laminators are addictive. You have been warned.

Man's Birthday

Used an X-Cut crimper to corrugate some light brown cardstock, wrapped string around, distressed the edges of a brown cardstock layer, added brads, crimped some red cardstock and added a sentiment. Men are difficult to make cards for.

However I do like this colour combination and I think these colours would be nice on Christmas cards.

Teacher's Gifts

Made some gifts to match the thankyou cards for the teachers.

Made a box from orange cardstock and 6 notelet cards from scraps of Orange Capsule papers. Laminated a strip of Orange Capsule paper and used it to cover a post-it pad. Added a brad and gems.

I bought the laminator in Lidl's for Euros17.99 and it's a little bit addictive! First thing I made was a brag book with my Godson's photos.

I wanted to try the scratch-the-corners technique! Stamped Sheena Douglass Cottage Flowers with Worn Lipstick distress ink. Scraped the corners of the card with a craft knife then used cut n dry foam to colour the card with the same ink. The scratches hold onto the ink. Couldn't find a piece of ribbon in the right shade of pink so cut a length of white satin ribbon and went at it with the Worn Lipstick distress ink. It worked! I needed a pink layer so coloured some white card with the distress ink - these inks are really versatile.

13 distress ink colours collected so far ......