Christmas · Handmade

Tim Holtz 3D Snowflake Christmas card

Hello and welcome. There's another fab challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown this week.  This time, the colour choices are green, white and gold... Looking through my paper collection, I thought these two patterned green papers looked lovely together... The striped paper is a retired Stampin Up design. I mat and layered the papers with… Continue reading Tim Holtz 3D Snowflake Christmas card

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