Christmas in April

Recently I bougth a new alphabeth die set with larges letters with an outline. So I wanted to try to make a Christmas card with them, the Danish saying "God Jul" can be translated to Merry Christmas.

Materials used:

Green, mirror gold and dusty gold cardstock

Docrafts Papermania - First Noel collection

Simple and Basic die - inside scalloped frame

Marianne Design - pine branch

Gavlhuset die - letters

Rhinestones from my stash

Tiny pine cones and white snowballs from my stash

Using your leftover scrap pieces

I have a tendency to save pretty much all of my scrap pieces, because you never know, when they might come in handy. And then about a week ago I saw on Facebook this really cool card made out of leftovers, so I had to try that myself. It is super easy so I made both a birthday card and a Christmas card.

Materials used:

Scrap leftovers and gold cardstock

Simple and Basic dies

Gittes Eget Design dies

Halfpearls

First Christmas card of 2021

Well, since today is the 24th I decided to make a Christmas card. I have seen other bloggers who have made Christmas cards every month on the 24th, but I have never done that myself, but today I really felt like making one, so maybe I'll try to do that every month, it will definitely make it easier to get them mailed on time I hope 🤞. I made one that is super easy and very flat. Most of my cards has to be mailed, and it is just more likely they will get there in one piece if they are flat.

Materials used:

Maja Design – Christmas Season 6x6 paper pack + an ephemera card from the 12x12 collection

Distress Ink – Bundled Sage

Hot foil plate and die from China

Half pearls

Last Christmas cards 2020

Just wanted to show the last of the Christmas cards for this year:

Materials used:

Paper pad from Bilka

Gold and black cardstock

Vellum

Sue Wilson die (trees)

Gummiapan die

Materials used:

White cardstock

Blue Glitter cardstock from Marianne Design

Sue Wilson die (text)

Spellbinders die (snowflake frame)

Materials used:

Old paper pad brand unknown (maybe Papermania)

Gold cardstock

Gittes Eget Design frames

China dies and hot plate

Spellbinders gold hot foil

Halfpearls

Materials used:

Hunkydory paper from magazine

Silver cardstock

Halfpearls

Simple and Basic die

Recycled Christmas card

The image with the trees is actually from an old Christmas card, which I saved from getteing thrown in the trash can at work a few years ago. I immediately saw that I could use that for a new card, and I do have another piece left, for another card. It is a pretty simple card, but I really like how it turned out:

Materials used:

An old Christmas card

Silver and white cardstock

Gittes Eget Design dies

Marianne Design stamp

Black ink and halfpearls

Christmas card

For this card I found my inspiration on another Danish blog. I had some paper similiar to what she had used, so I tried to make a similiar card. The original card you can see here: Vild med kort. And this is how my card turned out:

Materials used:

Gold and green cardstock

12x12 sheet with poinsettias (maybe from Papermania, but I'm not sure)

Simple & Basic dies

Halfpearls

Kaisercraft Christmas cards

 Inspired by some cards I saw on Facebook, I have made the following 2 cards, these must definitely be CAS cards since they are very simple and very fast to make:

Materials used:

Kaisercraft 6½" paperpad - Yuletide

Dies - Spellbinders Matting Basic 6x6

Dies - Simple and Basics (Juleknus)

Shiny gold cardstock

Christmas cards made of scrap pieces

I am a huge fan of Maja Design and use their papers for a lot of my cards and so I also have a lot of scrap pieces, because I don't have the heart to throw away all those left over pieces, even though some are very small. So I have made two Christmas cards where I have used some of my scrap pieces.

Materials used:

Maja Design - Various Christmas papers

Dies - Gittes Eget Design (Basis Rektangler & Flag, Strips Vandret)

Dies - Marianne Design (Snowflake LR0125 and Pine branch CR1378)

White cardstock

Halfpearls and hearts from my stash

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

2nd Christmas card 2019

I have been busy making Christmas cards, this year I want to get them done earlier, and also sent out earlier, so there is a chance, that everybody receive them before Christmas.

Materials used:

Maja Design – "A gift for you" collection

White + 2 shades of grey cardstock

Parchment paper

Marianne Design die – CR1378

Memory Box die – Chatford Wreath

Spellbinders die – Layered Poinsettia

Grey embrodery yarn and halfpearls from my stash

Pentart 3D powder

1st Christmas card 2019

This Christmas card was inspired by Maja Designs September Moodboard, which look like this:

It was the green, beige and brown tones that was the inspiration behind my card:

Materials used:

Maja Design "Christmas Season" and "Home for the Holidays" collections

White cardstock

Distress Ink - Vintage Photo

Chipboard - unknown brands

Tonic Studios die - Winter Snowflake

Precious Marieke - Snowflake border

Stickles - Frosted Lace

From my stash: Lace, embroidery yarn and paper straws

With this card I participate in Maja Designs September challenge, which you can read more about HERE.

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.

Christmas card in gold and pink

Using pink on a Christmas card is a bit out of my comfort zone when making Christmas cards, but Maja Design has so much beautiful Christmas paper, so I decided to go for it:

I have used papers from Maja Designs Vintage Frost Basic collection together with brown and gold cardstock. I used dies from Spellbinders Matting basics 6x6, Impression Obsession - poinsettia and the Snowflake Border from Precious Marieke. I used a few halfpearls from my stash, some stars that was scrap pieces from the snowflake border, some ribbon and a sticker.

Christmas card with gilded flakes

On this card I tried something new which was working with gilding flakes. I have had a container of it in my stash for more than 15 years, but I have never tried to work with it before. But it does give a very nice effect, so I will definitely try it again, even though it is very messy.

For this card I have used some red paper with a gold print from my stash plus some white cardstock. I have used dies from Sue Wilson - Lattice Window and from Spellbinders - Elegant Ovals. And I decorated it with a few halfpearls from my stash, a very simple but elegant looking card.

Snowman Christmas card

This card is a bit more time consuming but I think it is worth using the extra time on making a pretty card:

For this card I used white and a dusty blue cardstock from my stash + paper from Craft and You's "Frozen Paper" collection, the image of the snowman is also from that collection. I have used dies from Spellebinder - Matting Basics 6x6, Sue Wilson - "Eve" and "Frosty corner" from the festive collection, the Happy Christmas is from Tattered Lace and the pine branch is from Marianne Design. Flowers, halfpearls and ribbon is from my stash. The border around the image is diecut 4 times and then glued together to make an raised frame, I think it adds a nice effect to the image.

Red glitter Christmas card

Todays card is another quick card which can be nice at this time of the year:

For this card I used white, silver and red glitter cardstock and red glitter tape. I also used a chipboard snowflake from my stash. The only dies used here are the big snowflake from Dovecraft + the little oval which is from one of the Christmas sets that Sue Wilson has created. The chipboard snow flake is covered with glitter.

Card with Christmas bauble

I have bought a lot of Christmas dies throughout the years, so this year I am trying to use as many different ones as I can. This is another example of that:

For this card I have used papers from Galeria Papieru from their "The Cricket on the Hearth" collection. I also used red and green cardstock. Dies are from Spellbinders - Matting basics 6x6, Eve from Sue Wilsons festive collection, the wreath is from Sara Davies Signature collection and the bauble is from Dixi Craft. Flowers and halfpearls are from my stash.

Christmas card with Santa

I have made another Christmas card this and this time Santa is starring on the card:

I have used red, green and shiny silver cardstock and the paper with trees as well as the Santa image are from Kaisercrafts "Silent Night Collection". I have used dies from Spellbinders - Matting Basics 6x6 and Elegant Ovals, Sue Wilsons Festive Collection and the tree is from Dixi Craft. I dressed it up with a few halfpearls and a sticker which says Merry Christmas in Danish.

Snowflake Christmas card

This is also a very quick card to make:

I used some shiny silver cardstock and some speciality paper from my stash which had silver stars on it, it has been in my stash for so many years, that I have no idea where I bought it, and I used Spellbinders Matting Basics 6x6 for the squares. For the snowflake I used the Winter Snowflake from Tonic Studios. I used some parchment paper and Marianne Design COL1398 for the banner and the phrase is a sticker.

Christmas card with window

For this card I just used solid colored cardstock – white, red and gold:

I used dies from:

Spellbinders – Matting Basics 6x6

Spellbinders – Layered Poinsettia

Marianne Design – CR1378

Marianne Design – COL1398

Marianne Design – LR0392

Dan Dies – God Jul

Dixi Craft – MD0005

Besides the dies I used an embossing folder with brick pattern (don't know the brand) and a topper from Dixi Craft. For decorations I used snow paste from Pentart and some halfpearls from my stash.