Three of my Christmas Cards for 2019

Good morning

I have been back from Egypt for one week now, sometimes it feels like I have been home for months and sometimes it feels like I only got home yesterday. Hopefully I will get back in the swing of things soon.

Today's post shares with you three Christmas cards I have made this week of the 30 I have to make for the year. These three bring my total made so far to 15.

All of the cards use papers from my DCWV Merry & Bright paper pad and some gold cardstock from my stash

I recorded the process and you can see the video here.

So let's start with this card. It is a 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" top opening card.

I chose three patterned papers. I cut one to 5 1/4" x 4", two pieces of the black paper, 1 @ 4 3/4" x 3 1/2" and one @ 1 1/2" x 5 1/4" and the third patterned paper to 2" x 5 1/4".

I used my Prima distressing tool and a black ink pad to distress all of the patterned paper edges.

I used a die to cut each bauble out 3 times from white cardstock. I then glued them on top of each other to create four nice thick baubles to embellish my card.

Double sided tape was used to attache the 1 1/2" piece of black patterned paper to the 2" piece of pink paper, then using glue I attached the baubles and the gold twine so the baubles look as though they are hanging from the twine. This panel was then attached to the larger black patterned paper that had been attached to the background piece of patterned paper.

The twine was then attached to the larger panel and wrapped around to the back of the patterned papers.

This panel was then attached to the card base using self adhesive craft foam.

To create the "Merry Christmas" greeting I used an Elizabeth Craft Designs die and some gold cardstock and attached this to the lower part of the card, using glue.

I cut the card bases for the next two cards from a sheet of white cardstock. They are 5 1/4" square.

The second card has three patterned papers also, the largest is 5" x 5" The lightest paper is 2 3/4" x 5" and the pink paper is 2" x 5".

Once again I have distressed all of the papers with my distressing tool and black ink.

I cut a piece of the gold glitter mess so it was about 5" long by it's full width (which is less than 5")

I used double sided tape to attach the largest piece of patterned paper to the card base, laid the mesh on top of that and then attached the next two layers of patterned paper using glue. The glue behind the 2 3/4" piece pf patterned paper holds the mesh in place.

The greeting was once again cut from the gold cardstock using a die I bought on the internet.

I made the baubles to embellishments the final card using two Kaisercraft stamp sets. One is from the Sparkle stamp set and two are from the Merry Christmas stamp set.

I used Versamark clear ink to stamp the images and then heat embossed them with fine gold embossing powder.

I then fussy cut each bauble and added a star shaped brad.

The black patterned paper measures 5" x 5" and the pink measures 2 1/2" x 5".

I mounted the pink patterned paper on a piece of white cardstock that measures 2 3/4" x 5" to give the patterned papers some separation.

The edges of all of the papers has been inked with a black ink pad.

The black patterned paper is attached to the card base with double sided tape and the white cardstock is attached on top of it with self adhesive craft foam for a little dimension.

Finally the pink paper is attached onto the white and then the baubles are placed on the pink paper.

I have used the "Merry Christmas" on the middle baubles as my greeting.

These three cards are very simple and easy to make so I hope you try them out. You will be amazed how different they look when you use different patterned papers.

If my description is a bit hard to follow, don't forget that you can see me make these cards on my YouTube channel here.

I hope you have enjoyed reading about my Christmas cards today

Thanks for dropping by

Till next time

Hugs

Julie