Sunday, January 18, 2015

Christmas in January

Last year, I had a plan to make at least 1 Christmas card each month so I didn't have a mad December rush. I think I managed about 3 months before it went pear shaped! Maybe this year will work better!

Here is my January Christmas card-



This card was really simple to make and uses some old stash and some new goodies too. I started with a 6x6 white blank card and added a Dovecraft patterned paper to the bottom half. The paper is from a monochrome set that included papers, ribbons buttons etc. from The Range and was a great deal. The snowflake dies are also new but the mirror card I used to cut them out of has been in my stash for years(no exaggeration!)

Before attaching the die cut snowflakes, I used double sided tape and glitter to add an extra sparkle to the join between the card base and the paper. I attached the snowflakes and then used a fine black pen to draw on the strings. I finished the card with a really simple peel-off greeting.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-
Crafty Hazlenut's Extra 'xmas'- 31.1
Country View 'use something new'- 31.1
Crafty Cardmakers 'old and new'- 25.1
Love to Create 'snowflakes'- 18.1
Papertake Weekly 'all new'- 20.1
Penny's 'anything goes'- 20.1
Paper Shelter 'punches and/or dies'- 20.1
Creative Inspirations 'anything goes'- 20.1
CRAFT 'Xmas'- 21.1
Creatalicious 'winter'- 14.2
Crafty Catz 'new beginnings'- 22.1

13 comments:

  1. Beautiful card, I love snowflakes and the touch of glitter! Thanks so much for joining us at Creatalicious this month!
    Tammy x

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  2. I bet this is even more beautiful in real life! You're off to a very good start! Thanks so much for sharing with us at CRAFT Challenge!

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  3. your first xmas card is done...............hopefully you have less xmas card making stress this year
    thanks for playing with us at creatalicious

    Hugs Debby

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  4. Very elegant, thanks for playing along at The Paper Shelter Dies and/or punches challenge this week, good luck, hugs, Colette xx

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  5. lovely card like you I am trying to get a head of Christmas and have made a start thanks for sharring with creatalicious Rachel dt

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  6. Lovely card, I like the snowflake colours. Thank you for joining us at CHNC Extra.

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  7. Clean and simple, beautiful !! Love it ..

    Thank you for playing with us this week at the Paper Shelter Challenge !!
    Good Luck !!

    Hug Lena

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  8. Beautiful - very elegant.

    Thanks for joining us at Penny's.

    Helen x

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  9. A very classy card. Great colour scheme and the snowflakes are lovely. Thanks for joining us at Crafty Cardmakers and more. Sally.x.

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  10. Thanks for joining us at CraftyCatz.
    Kim (CraftyCatz DT) x

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  11. I'm back again to say thank you for joining us at the CRAFT Challenge too.

    Helen x

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  12. Beautiful card. Thank you for sharing your lovely crafting for my CHNC challenge extra for January - hope to see you again soon x

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  13. A lovely card!
    Thank you soo much for taking part in our "Winter” challenge over at Creatalicious & good luck in the draw.
    Hope to see you again in our next challenge as well…

    Hugs,
    Melanie
    (DT Penny's Paper Crafty Challenges)
    (DT-Coordinator Creatalicious Challenges)
    (DT Come and Get It)
    (GDT Kreativzeit Challenges)

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