Hello everyone,
Sometimes I like themes for my Christmas card, I get an idea and if it flows, it flows, and I make over 200 cards for the season, family, shop, friends, special friends, overseas and then the orders in between.
This year...this is how my theme began..
I shopped on amazon and bought this..
and started cutting..
and card stock backing to make them studier
I do nothing perfect with my eyesight, and don't really care,
but all the ephemera was hand cut out and matted with card stock..
and sometimes a die worked, but the tags etc are different sizes so pretty limited.
but the hand cutting was okay and I inked the edges to hide boo boo's.
after buying my Hero Arts nesting dies I found one good enough for the round ephemera, so that was lucky, I cannot cut a straight line, so a circle was never going to work..
double sided these one as they are pretty small.
and you can see by now my theme is " Animals "
different sizes in this book, so that was fun.
I made so many animal themed cards and tags which I will share as time goes by
and still had bits left over..
Here we are at the end with all the pictures cut and matted and ready to go..
Thank you so much for stopping by..
I'll see you tomorrow..
Luv CHRISSYxx
9 comments:
Chrissy these are fabulous, what an amazing amount of wonderful creations, who care if there is the odd 'cock-up' it happens and makes them more 'hand crafted', thats my story and I am sticking to it. Your amazing. xxx
Love your theme and the vintage ephemera, your cards will turn out absolutely gorgeous- sometimes the little imperfections (which nobody notices or cares about) is what makes them perfect- and unique. I think you do amazingly well - and 200 cards!!! that's fantastic.
xx
You make 200 of them???? I think I make about 100 and thought that that was a lot.... Great to see how you worked with this theme. Looks wonderful!
Love all the Vintage images and look forward to seeing all the cards.
Carol x
gorgeous vintage images Chrissy, it looks beautiful.........gr karin
Wow that book of ephemera was a great find, so many great images, nice to have dies to cut them out too, I am not good at fussy cutting, even though I keep trying! Sure looks like you have enough to keep you company!
Gorgeous colours and love the vintage images Chrissy. x
Well hello, here I am after several days taking up where I left off. I have seen those books on Amazon but did not realize that's the endgame. Very cool! xox
I definitely think you're getting your money's worth with this collection. Your projects using them are just stunning!
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