TWO QUICK CUT OUT CARDS

CHRISTMS TREE CUT OUT CARD

Its the end of November, and hence I'm continuing to feature really quick and easy Christmas Cards.

These two use aperture cards from Regal Craft Cards.  The Christmas tree has some sparkly paper and mesh trim underneath the cut-out, with an adhesive padded star on the top.  The bauble just has some gold paper and a sticker, placed on an angle to match the bauble.  Oh yes, and a red bow (pre-made so no fiddly bits to grapple with).

CHRISTMAS BAUBLE CUT OUT CARD

Both cards are finished with stickers and are super fast to make.  The bauble is only available in white but the tree comes in red and green as well, plus the cut-outs are with the card so you can use them on other projects.

QUICK CHRISTMAS CARDS AND CALENDARS

SIDESTEPPER CALENDAR

We've had a few cards that don't involve Christmas papers of late but here are some that do - made by Marty in the September demo.

As you can see, some Regal base cards (side-stepper, photoslot and square) and some patterned paper (from Kaiser) plus a few embellishments and you're done....perfect when time is short.

Use a neutral paper and a Regal calendar pad if you'd like the effort to be appreciated all year!

TWO QUICK CARDS

LAST OF THE COOL CHRISTMAS COLOURS

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Ivory is the last coloured card base in the Regal "Cool Christmas" pack, and also the last of three posts I've done with Christmas cards that don't use Christmas papers.

This one makes use of greeting dies from Kaiser and a Universal Christmas dies (although you could clearly use it at any time of the year).

A couple of techniques worth mentioning are firstly the "drop shadow" effect of slightly offsetting ivory components with gold, and also using an embossing tool and score board (or even with a ruler and soft mat) to add embossed lines to define areas within the card.  Also note the use of die-cuts in the same colour as the base card for an embossed effect.

The "Cool Christmas" collection includes base cards that are larger than standard size in five different modern Christmas colours.  Just by the by...although larger than the usual card they are still standard postage within Australia.

CHRISTMAS CARD IN NONTRADITIONAL COLOURS

SCALLOP EDGED CHRISTMAS CARD

Janet has used a scallop edged single fold card from Regal Craft Cards and some paper from Couture Creations to make this quick but effective card in non-traditional colours.

The idea could easily be adapted to your own favourite colour scheme!

TWO MORE QUICK CHRISTMAS CARDS

COOL CHRISTMAS 3

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.

COOL CHRISTMAS 4

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................

TWO QUICK CARDS FOR CHRISTMAS

COOL CHRISTMAS 1

The Australian importer of a few of the US lines of seasonal scrapbooking papers decided at more or less the last minute not to do so this year so whilst there are a lot of lovely papers still available there is not quite the same range as usual.  Not to worry.....you really don't need Christmas paper to make Christmas cards.

These two examples are made of cards from Regal's new "Cool Christmas" pack and feature a couple of alternatives.

COOL CHRISTMAS 1

The first just has a piece of lovely specialty paper, (just one of lots of new patterns), some backing paper, a sticker and a rhinestone.  How easy is that? Especially with the gold detail, it looks very Christmassy without using Christmas paper as such.

The same is true of the second example - no matter what colour glitter card you use, it says "celebration."  In this case just a few die cut blue stars on a grey background.  Grey paired with a pastel is the "in" colour this year, but really the design would work with any colours that take your fancy

QUICK STAMPED CHRISTMAS CARD

QUICK CARD FOR CHRISTMAS

I made this card very quickly with the help of a pre-cut bauble shapeand a red base card from Regal Craft Cards.

I stamped some snowflakes in two corners, leaving a space for the silver and white ribbon (which I attached using double sided tape).  A stamped greeting was added to the bauble, and then it was just a matter of adding a pre-made red bow and a few rhinestones!

Its not quite a five minute card but it comes close, and is quite a good style to reproduce if you're making your cards in e.g. lots of 10 at a time!

GATEFOLD CHRISTMAS CARD

GATEFOLD CARD - FRONT

INSIDE

Sharon shows a clever way to use a larger picture by sticking it across the edges where the panels meet on a gatefold card and then cutting between the edges.

This works particularly well with symmetrical (or close to) shapes such as this Christmas tree, featured in one of the recent Kaiser paper ranges.

The silver adhesive trim has been similarly applied, with two little blue pearls in each of the bottom corner.  Sharon has used the bottom margin of a Kaiser paper to double as both a band to keep the card closed for presentation, and to add the greeting.

As you can see, she has added a deckle cut piece of patterned paper and a couple of silver stars for embellishment inside the card.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

MERRY CHRISTMAS WITH SANTA

Here is another quick card idea from Janet, who has used Regal's Royale card in Fern as a base. The Royale cards have a narrow gold foiled border near the fold, and are larger than the standard card.

Janet has added tiny red pearls to the border, and has used a cut-out santa picture, backed on red cardstock, and a gold Merry Christmas sticker.  She has finished the project with a cheerful red bow.

This is quite a quick card, and the design could easily be modified with other toppers.  The Royale cards are available in other colours including white linen, ivory, heather, stonewash, lemonade, cameo and cantelope!