TWO MORE QUICK CHRISTMAS CARDS

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Here are two more examples of cards made without Christmas papers and using Regal's "Cool Christmas" selection as the base.

The red card uses some gold puff hearts (from Green Tara) to make a tree, the star and trunk and greeting  are stickers and the pots are just little origami cups, although you could just cut out a triangle and snip off the bottom if you wanted an easier approach.

The second card features the greeting cut with a Kaiser die and some circles punched from a variety of coloured paper.  The bright hues stand out against the natural Kraft brown background.

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If you're organised you can complete both cards in under ten minutes, so if you haven't made a start on the Christmas cards yet................

RIBBON WRAP DRESS CARD

RIBBON WRAP DRESS CARD

This is such a simple idea, and as with the best of them I hadn't thought of doing it before I saw Marilyn's card.  She had cut out the shape of a dress, and carefully wrapped it with blue ribbon, adding a sparkly blue ribbon "belt" to finish.

The finished dress has been mounted onto a white singlefold card from Regal Craft Cards.

I can't wait to start wrapping other shapes.....if you do Halloween, a mummy would be an obvious choice, but trees would be effective (maybe even wrapped in twine for a natural look) or maybe actually wrap present shapes for your
Christmas cards.  The possibilities are endless!

AN ELEGANT CARD FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS

ELEGANT SPECIAL OCCASION CARD

This lovely layered card could be used for all sorts of occasions, but engagements and weddings spring immediately to mind.

Marilyn has used a collection of layered materials to decorate the front of the card, creating a variety of textures and patterns which are tied together by the use of the black, white and silver colour scheme.

Working left to right there is printed organza ribbon, cotton mesh, black satin adhesive leaves, specialty paper, white organza ribbon with silver glitter hearts, and a congratulations peel-off sticker, coloured black.  Two paper flowers with rhinestones added to the centre have been added as a final finishing touch.
(All materials including the smooth square base card came from Regal Craft Cards).