Merry Christmas

This is my 24th blogpost this month and even though I had not planned on blogging every day up to Christmas, it just happend that way 😁. 

With this post I just want to wish everybody a Merry Christmas.

Christmas gift tags

Christmas is getting very close now, tomorrow is the big day here in DK, and I am ready for it: all the presents are bought, the groceries are bought and the tree is decorated. All we need to do is to put ribbon and gift tags on the presents and put them under the tree, which my husband and I will do tonight after the kids have gone to bed. I made a few gift tags this year as well, some of them turned out really nice others not so much, but we will use them anyway:

Christmas goodies

These goodies I have made for Christmas every year for the last 6 years, and sometimes for other occassions as well. They are seriously addictive, so don't say I didn't warn you ;-).

I make a big batch of them, because I know they will dissappear fast. The recipe can be found in Danish here: http://heidiskagesjov.blogspot.com/2012/07/konfektkager.html

Christmas flowers

The other day we had guests and I just want to share the beautiful bouquet they brought us:

I just love the red and green colors, perfect here for Christmas :-).

 Today was the last day of work, I am now off until next year, yeah :-).

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.