Christmas · Handmade

Tim Holtz 3D snowflake

Hello and welcome. This week's sketch challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown has a great focal point for a card ... I used a textured card base in white, cut down to a regular A6 size card, then added 2 squares of cardstock, one in melon mambo for a pop of colour, and one in… Continue reading Tim Holtz 3D snowflake

Christmas · Handmade

Christmas card with real stitching

Hello and welcome. I hope you're having a good day. I'm delighted to be joining the lovely design team over at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown again this week, for a wonderful challenge to use real stitching on a card... I started with this beautiful background paper by the Lovely Studio, adhered it to a piece… Continue reading Christmas card with real stitching

Christmas · Handmade

Stamp kissing

Hello and welcome. My challenge this week at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown, was inspired by the Christmas tradition of kissing under the mistletoe, and is a technique called stamp kissing.  This involves touching one stamp against another, or "kissing", before stamping down onto the cardstock.  It can give some wonderful patterns and fun results, and… Continue reading Stamp kissing

Christmas · Handmade

Christmas fairy lights card

Hi and welcome. It's theme week this week at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown challenge, and this time I chose "fairy lights" as they are one of my favourite things to decorate our home with at Christmas.  They can be called many different things around the world - twinkle lights, holiday lights, mini lights, etc -… Continue reading Christmas fairy lights card