I’ve made this card when I saw the cute Santa in the acetate and vellum kit. I just thought he looked so cute he could be posing for a photo – so I used a sizzix die cuts to create a Polaroid.
I added the sentiment to white cardstock to strengthen it so I could raise it up on adhesive foam across the card.
I made the background using the lovely pastel cardstock from Kingston Crafts and an embossing folder sanding the pattern to expose the white core.
I finished off with sequins just to add some sparkle.
But seriously how cute is the Santa? Just love him! and the amazing thing is that there are so many in the kit I can make many more cards featuring him!
Hope you are having a good festive season!
This is my final festive Friday of the year – and yes I managed a festive project every single Friday! Pretty sure I will keep this up for next year too – so please do join in the fun of making Christmas projects all year round – firstly because it’s fun, secondly it means you have a decent stash by the time you need them!
Just wanted to pop a little post out to wish people a very Merry Christmas – and to share the ‘special cards’ I made for my close family.
Let’s start with this one …
For my parents I went with the Spellbinders Snowcapped holiday birdhouse and then also added a few floral elements from the Alex Syberia Christmas Bouquet to add extra colour – this really is one of my favourite ever die sets!
I added some spots of glitter glue for the flower centres and for the snowy bits on the branch and the roof. Oh so pretty!
I decided to use a foiled sentiment and then some letter stickers for the Mum & Dad element.
Next up I used the same Snowcapped Holidays dies for my card for my hubby.
This time I went OTT with the die cutting of the foliage elements in all different scraps of greens and then die cut a dark purple ring to create a wreath element.
I decided to add in the berries in two colours – a pale duck egg blue and then that dark purple. For each of the berries I gave them a coat of wink of Stella and then a glossy accents coating to give them a shimmer glossy finish.
This time my birds were more like little sparrows and I think super cute!
I added a die cut panel and then a frame of the green to then add this to an 8×8 card blank.
I then added the die cutting Merry Christmas sentiment with some wide emerald green satin ribbon underneath.
This added just the touch of softness I wanted to break up the texture.
But seriously how cute are those little bird die cuts?
I had such fun the day I made this card die cutting scraps and making many cute little birds! I shared this on an instagram story …
Ok last card to share and this is the one I made for my daughter.
It’s another 8×8 card and I went with tartan papers from Indigo Blu which then determined the colour scheme and again went die cutting heavy!
This time I combined not just the Snowcapped holidays and the Alex Syberia Christmas bouquet but also the arrange a wreath dies too!
I went with Kraft, white, rose gold and a little bit of the shimmer green vellum for all the wreath elements and the sentiment with the shadow.
I also found a fabulous ribbon in my stash that coordinated perfectly and I think added a nice extra texture.
The stamped sentiment is from an Altenew set and then the letter does for her name are old ones in my stash.
I chose two papers that I thought worked well together and layered the top panel on the white to separate the layers. I also added plenty of dimension with adhesive foam between the layers and then the wreath and the letters and the flowers.
I know it’s quite a rustic looking card but I think my daughter will like it with the different elements and the shiny rose gold foiled card.
So these are the three special cards I made – a lot of die cutting and some fiddly elements to adhere but I really enjoyed putting these together. I knew those Alex Syberia dies would be something I would reach for time and time again and it turns out the Snowcapped holidays work perfectly with them too!
All I have left to say for today’s post is of course Merry Christmas. I hope you are having a lovely time. I know this time of year can be hard for some people so please do look after yourself and know that I appreciate you for visiting my blog.
Carried on playing with the page kit I shared last week – but for page two I did change up the layout a bit more as I thought this layout worked better with the three photos.
I loved Sarah’s layout with the half circle but chose to align it all to the right and then changed around some other elements and chose different chipboard stickers. I also went with the sequins as my finishing touches!
So there we have another scrappin Saturday project – I have really loved getting back into scrapbooking over the last couple of years and it’s been good to get a weekly post up … one more Saturday of the year … wonder what I will make as I have run out of page kits to play with!
Final Festive Friday before the big day and I have to say I love this card I made as a sample for Kingston Crafts.
I die cut the film strip from the foiled cardstock and layered it up with two other die cuts. I sandwiched the vellum characters between the top and next layer down. I then added a white cardstock panel at the back.
I created the card blank from the solid red in the Christmas pad and then added the panel of the tree patterned paper.
I then added the floral elements from the kit. I also added the foiled sentiment across the top of the panel.
I added the black gems to finish off. A simple way to add a little extra sparkle!
Earlier this month I shared a whole batch of cards I had made from the leftovers from the Making Cards magazine papers I had put into pouches for the patterned paper projects this past year. Well I have two cards left that I thought deserved their own post!
The paper is just the background in a square for these cards – and then I went to town with die cuts! Firstly the large sentiment die cut is a magazine one – for one I used the whole die cut – for the other I snipped off the sending as it hadn’t cut quite right!
I used green card stock and a spellbinders die for the wreath and then the fabulous Alex Syberia dies for the floral and foliage elements – so so pretty!
I changed the colours a little on the second one to add in the lilac.
I also teamed this with the darker blackberry bliss I had cut the main sentiment out of.
This time I also added in some smaller lilac flowers using the same spellbinders die set the wreath was in.
I finished off both cards with the foiled sentiment and glitter glue for the centre of the flowers.
Both panels I mounted onto green and then onto the 6×6 card blank.
Inside each card I just added one of the flowers! A cute addition to the inside.
I loved making these cards – those dies are just so adaptable to different themes of cards and I love mixing companies together to make unique cards.
And so that’s the end of the Making Cards magazine paper projects for this year! Such a lot of fun and some very different projects and styles!
Of course I still have so much patterned paper in the stash I suspect that the challenge will continue to use them up at least once a month … but you will have to wait till the 1st of the month to see what my plans for 2026 will be!
Thanks for joining me on my creative journey this past year!
For this months prompt over at the Facebook Group I went with Winter Wonderland but when I came to make my card I got very involved with fiddly die cuts and made this lovely textured card.
Really so happy with this!
I used the Merry Moose for the main focal point and all the fun snowy trees for my winter wonderland.
Glittery and flocked boughs on the trees really are so lovely and I love that moose so much!
I went for a stamped and inked and die cut background using Kingston Crafts background stamps that I know are now available on Hobbymaker even though they haven’t actually been properly launched on the shows yet.
I loved using those new to me wobbly rectangle dies too!
The sparkly and funky snowflakes from a different Tim Holtz die set work well with the main images too.
And that Altenew wood slice die cut is the perfect base for the scene.
Really love this card and how it came together. Video up on YouTube which is highly edited so you don’t have to watch me faffing around making it for the hour it took.
Have enjoyed doing these bonus little challenges for Christmas in July throughout the last few months so going to keep them going in the new year!
Finishing off the 2025 Make it Masculine projects with this simple one – some scraps of green and white cardstock – some ink and embossing and fab silhouette stamps – and a simple but I think pretty cool card was made!
It’s pretty zingy with the Twisted citron and Peeled Paint inks and I love those funky jazzy musicians.
Definitely not the most challenging card I’ve made this series and it would be so easy to bulk make these in a range of colours – but I just went with the one card as I didn’t have huge amounts of energy for this and just wanted to get this one done before we head into the manic last few days leading into Christmas!
I’ve actually enjoyed making these masculine cards – although obviously I still prefer pretty florals, sparkly elements and feminine ribbons and bows – but it was a surprise to find that a few of the projects I made probably turned out to be some of my favourites this year!
So I am as yet undecided on whether to continue the challenge – maybe I will, maybe I won’t – let’s see what happens in January! But for now here is the complete playlist of the 2025 Make it Masculine projects.
I still had some pouches of leftover papers from the Making Cards magazine papers I had kitted up at the beginning of the year for the patterned paper projects – but don’t want to carry them through to the new year – so I had a big crafting session making with them!
Some papers I will admit went either to the bin or the concertina file I keep patterned paper scraps in. But the rest were used for a mish mash of projects!
Let’s start with these rainbow pineapple projects!
I used rainbows I made a while ago and then created the back panels from the pineapple papers.
I added the die cut sentiment and layer and the sun die cut – and then the foiled sentiments too!
So bright and cheery!
Next up is this card made using the boy image leftover …
I added a simple panel of white and the foiled sentiment. I also added the glossy accents to the mask on the boy to give it dimension and shine.
I raised the hands on the boy with foam adhesive too – it gives the image a feeling of movement.
But overall a simple card.
Next a card made from the confetti type papers and toppers.
I added some foiled cardstock layers and then the lawn Fawn cake image I stamped, stencilled and die cut. I then decided to fussy cut it rather than go with the white outline of the die cut.
I added some glitter glue to the candles – cute!
And finally …
Some torn scraps become a fun background with the card topper and a die cut candle to finish off!
I did make a few others from this stash … but decided one was a perfect design team project and the others were a lot of work and deserve a post all of their own!
I actually videoed the process for today’s Scrappin Saturday so please feel free to check that out.
I used a page kit from Hey Little Magpie which I bought at the crop in November and decided to keep the layout pretty much the same but I did add in a little bit of difference! I did sewing, splatter and added some ephemera vintage tags.
Sarah designs lovely pages but this has too much white space for me to feel comfy with so hence sewing … I chose some fun label shapes to add and then I also added in the thread bow and trails from the tags I made … and of course shimmery splatter!
Getting to the end of Festive Friday for this year and of course we are so close to Christmas now so I went for a load of tags for all the gift wrapping yet to be done! I really should start that!
And these were all done with random bits and pieces left in my Christmas box mainly leftover from the KCC19 I started in July. I had off cuts of cardstock and a few focal images and the. I just raided the stash of other items ready done and just waiting to be used!
I went back to my usual technique for using scraps and did some strip panels – in some cases full tags, in others that became the background.
I have a mixture of foiled or embossed and die cut sentiments and also some die cuts too!
I added some glitter glue to a few of them too which adds some fun – and I love how they all look together – a very random collection but with similar colour schemes!
All in all a fun job to put these together and helpful to have another little stash of tags to use as I now have to face the idea of gift wrapping!
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