Festive Friday 2025 #1

I wasn’t sure if I would keep up my Festive Friday challenge or not for 2025 because I had got a fair few leftover from last years making but I decided I always get so much pleasure from making for the festive season so why the heck not! So yes I will continue with my Festive Fridays and so here we go with the first of the year!

Thought I would start by using up of digital images that I had already printed for todays Festive Friday – I expect that I will do quite a few of these types of projects as now is not the time to start buying new stash for Christmas – I spent a lot on Christmas stash last year – this year I want to try and save to buy a new die cutting machine so going to try and use old stash as much as possible.

So I started with the penguin images that I had got as part of the Mirtillamente Christmas No 1 set and printed a little larger than I expected so only ended up using the one image as my DT project back in early December.

I coloured both the penguin images and decided to use both on the same card. I went to town with embossing green everyday cardstock from Kingston Crafts and created two panels for under the penguins. The great thing about the cardstock is that it reveals the white core when embossing so provides some contrast.

I decided to make the penguins pop up with a little cardstock mechanism (as per Jennifer McGuire videos). I decided to also add in some die cut holly leaves for some additional interest. I did add ink to them to make them just a little bit darker than the background but it’s subtle not so obvious on the photos.

I stamped and embossed some sentiments from Pretty Pink Posh stamps and die cutting them. I added one to the front and then the other I added inside along with some decorative elements from the same set. This created a nice cluster on the inside.

Quite a cutesy card with the fun lineart images and the little interactive pop up element that is flat when in the envelope but then pops up for on display!

So here we go – first card made for this years pile of Christmas cards!

Happy crafting!

Catherine