Quick Christmas Cards

Last weekend I went to visit my Godparents, they are both over 80 so they are at high risk when it comes to the Corona virus, but they are good at staying at home and taking care of each other. It was really good to see that they are doing great and coping well with everything that is going on. I had made a little box with some different cards for them, so they have some for different occacions. Among them were some Christmas cards which I will show today. All the cards are made with papers that came with at magazine from Hunkydory - Cardmaking collection.

Other materials used:

Gold and Silver cardstock

White and light teal cardstock

Dies - Marianne Design, Yvonne Creatief, Card Making Magic, China die and Simple and Basic

Stars from my stash

The banner with "Glædelig Jul" is cut from an old Christmas card
and a leftover piece from a braided star

Spring birthday card for my Godmother

May 4th it is my Godmothers birthday, so today I made this spring inspired card for her:

Materials used:

Lemoncraft papers:

Melody A4 paper pad, Leaves paper pad, Violet Silence Basic and Everyday Spring

White cardstock

Dies:

Marianne Design – banner

China die – branches

Spellbinders – biggest circle

Card Making Magic – smallest circle

Flowers from WOC, on the daisies I replaced the centers with gold stamens

Embroidery thread and buttons from my stash

Lindys Stamp Gang – Golden Sleigh Bells

A punch from my stash to cut round corners

Stickles – Golden Rod

Playing with my Lindy's sprays

A while ago I was playing around with my Lindy's sprays, but unfortunately I forgot to write down which ones I used, but out of that came these 2 cards:

Materials used:

Lindy's sprays

China die

Card Making Magic - banner +Happy Birthday dies

Black round stickers

Card for my Godparents

In the beginning of June it was my Godparents 58th wedding anniversary, so I made this card for them:

Materials used:

Maja Design - Sofiero Collection + Monochromes Shade of winterdays & light green

Card Making Magic - Leaf die

Flowers from WOC

Lace from China and my stash

Half pearls from my stash

William's birthday card

The 12th it was my sons birthday, so I made this card for him:

Materials used:

Maja Design - Denim & Friends collection 6 x 6, topper from the 12 x 12 papers

White cardstock

Marianne Design die - numbers COL1347

Card Making Magic dies - Happy Birthday

Crea-Nest-Lies - XXL no. 19 stars

Buttons and sticker from my stash

Distress Ink - Evergreen Bough

Isabella's birthday card

June 5th it was my oldest daughters 15th birthday, so I made her this card:

Materials used:

UHK Gallery - WASI SABI and Desert Rose collections

FelicitaDesign - Topper

CardMakingMagic - Banner and Happy Birthday die

Dixi Craft - numbers MD0066

Flowers - WOC

Cheesecloth, half pearls and ribbon from my stash

4 x easy birthday cards

4 of my sons classmates held their birthday party together, so that required 4 cards – 2 girly and 2 boyish. I came up with this pretty simple design:

Materials used:

Paper from Karen-Marie Klip and some bought in the local grocery store

Spellbinders Matting Basics 6x6

The boy and girl are from Dixi Craft

Banner from Card Making Magic

'Tillykke' sticker

Birthday card for Mette

Today it is my good friends birthday and so I made this card for her:

I usually use a lot of dies on my cards but for this one I only used 2 - the banner and the Happy Birthday, and both dies are from Card Making Magics "Complete Card & Box Die Set 5x7"".

The papers are Docrafts Papermania - "Capsule Collection". The chipboard pieces are from Scrapek and Søstrene Grene (the butterflies). Tuille, laces and flowers are from my stash, the small roses are from WOC.



Last Christmas card for this time

I love poinsettias and snowflakes for Christmas cards, so on this card I combined the 2 things:

This was actually the first Christmas card I made this fall, but for some reason it came on the blog last. For this card I have used dies from Spellbinders - Matting Basics 6x6 and Poinsettias, the background is from Card Making Magic, the banner from Marianne Design and the words from Dan Dies. I have used white, silver, red glitter cardstock and vellum for the flowers. I used 3 halfpearls for the flower centers.

Blue birthday card

Rebecca was invited to two of her class mates birthday party and so I made two identical cards for her to bring. Apparantly blue is the "in"-color when you reach 9, I also remember that from my oldest daughter, so different shades of blue plus white cardstock is what I used for these 2 cards, and since they are identical, I'll just show one:

For this card I used almost all the dies from the "Fancy Nesting Circles" from Card Making Magic. I also used the Spellbinders Matting Basics 6x6 and Marianne Design COL1347 (number) and I decorated it with some halfpearls from my stash.

Card for Sofie

My colleague Sofie finished her education as a media graphics last week, so I was asked to make her a card to go with the present. I choose to make a very feminine card since that is what I love. I used pink paper and paper from Maja Designs "Crea Diem" collection. I have used dies from Spellbinders - Matting basics 6x6, Card Making Magic - banner, China die - leafs on branch and the square in the middle. Chipboard is "Wild flowers #3" from Dusty Attic and they are painted with white gesso and decorated with Liquid Pearls - Ballerina. Flowers are homemade foamiran and flowers from WOC. Other decorations are halfpearls, buttons and ribbon. The text is printed on white cardstock. Here is the card:

For the foamiran flowers I used dies from Nellie Snellen. I used white foamiran and colored them with some old Pergamano pastels in 2 different blue shades. With this card I participate in Scrap and Crafts June challenge - DIY flowers.
Products from Scrap and Craft:
https://scrapandcraft.eu/foamiran-flowers/906-foamiran-white-30x35-cm.html

Card for a double birthday.

My colleagues son and his girlfriend held their birthday party together and my colleague asked me, if I could make a card that represented both of their interests, which were movies (his) and parrots/parakeets (her). I created this card:

I used papers from Maja Design "Ska vi ta en Fika" collection. The squares are handcut, distressed and inked with "Vintage Photo" from Tim Holtz. I also tore a piece of paper and inked the edges of that. I used some cheese cloth which I inked with 2 different inks - "Vintage Photo" and "Wilted Violet" - and put that behind my filmstrip, which was cut with a China die. The pictures of the birds was some I found on Google. The banners are cut with a die from the "Christina Collection" from Card Making Magic. For the letters I used a die from Joy Crafts, Happy Birthday is a Tattered Lace die. The banner, letters and Happy Birthday are all slightly inked with "Vintage Photo". Flowers are from WOC, chipboard from Scrapek and the halfpearls are from my stash.

Bokeh confirmation cards

Like many others I have also started working on confirmation cards now. I wanted to try something different and new (at least for me) so I decided to try the bokeh technique, and I am quite pleased with how the cards turned out:

I have used Distress Ink on all of the cards to make the background and also sprayed a little water on the background. Afterwards I used a stencil from Dutch Doobadoo together with a VersaMagic ink to make the circles. I matted the backgrounds with black cardstock, which i also used for the banners. The boy and the girl a cut with a DixiCraft die, the banner is from Card Making Magic, and the stamp is also from DixiCraft.