Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

Hi!

Oooh its getting really exciting now!

Only four more sleeps to go............

Here is Angela Radford to wish you

all Merry Christmas and share some

last minute cards with you:

About now you will be wondering where the time went 

and if you are like me you will be needing 

some last minute cards and I am here 

to show you how I do it.

All you need are one set of stamps, 

several card blanks, one A3 sheet of card or two A4, 

Distress Inks, embossing ink and powder

Stamp and emboss your chosen stamps onto the A3 card 

using clear or white embossing powder

Next we need to colour the card and you can do this in a number of ways 

and I chose to use a roller for this project as it's easy to add colour quickly

 by this method. Just roll over the ink pad and then over the card 

and off you go. 

I used the following four colours for this project

Just keep going until you are happy

 with the coverage and then buff the embossing with a dry cloth

 which will remove the ink so that the snowflakes stand out again

Now you can stamp again over this with your chosen colours

to build up the design. 

Now it's time to cut the sheet into useable pieces. 

You need to turn the card over before starting this stage. 

A pencil is good for this as you can rub it out easily 

if you're not happy with your first plan. 

This is the layout that I used but you can choose any shapes you like

All cut up and ready to go!

Next I stamped onto the card blanks to create a background for the mats. 

This is an example of one of them:

Now you can start to mat and layer you design and attach it to the card blanks

 You will need to add a sentiment and an embellishment.

 You will notice that my cards are quite flat as I have to post most of them 

so I have deliberately made them fairly thin

And so the samples:

When finishing these off I thought about the front 

and couldn't resist adding some crazy birds to some of them 

but also used the stamps again and embossed the images

this time with silver embossing powder to make them stand out.

I still have all this left so plenty to make several more cards. 

 This is not just a quick way to make your own cards 

but also quite economical too

You could easily make ten 6x6 square cards 

and probably more if they were smaller

Hope you've enjoyed watching me make these cards 

and I'd like to wish you a very Merry Christmas.

Angela xXx

Materials used:

Eclectica Stamps by Paper Artsy - Emma Godfrey 19 

Tim Holtz Crazy Birds.

Tim Holtz Scibbles and Splat Thinlits

Distress Inks

Card:  white

Card Blanks

Coloured card

Embossing Powders:

SILVER

CLEAR

Embossing ink

Merry Christmas wishes to you too Angela

and thank you for giving us this oh so lovely and useful project

Well, that's definitely me off to make the last minute cards

Wherever did I put that stamp set...........................?

See you all tomorrow

Mickie xx