I have had this sheet of glitter paper sitting since last fall when I made these cards. Some time after that I printed off these ornaments (CLKER) thinking they would go well together and there they sat until yesterday. I watercoloured the ornaments blue, fussy cut them once they were dry, used silver gel pen on the tops and added iridescent blue Stickles to them. I laid them out and let them dry overnight. In the meantime, I cut my glittery paper into four and used a set of the Cookie Cutter letter dies to cut out Joy on the lower right hand corner. This is one of the sets my daughter lent me last week. Next, I embossed them with the D'vine Swirl (CB) embossing folder. For the fifth card I punched the greeting with my letter punches into a dark blue cardstock layer and embossed it with the Swiss Dots (CB) embossing folder. I punched a hole at the top of the ornaments and added a hanger - using white vintage seam binding for the white cards and silver gray organza for the dark card. I adhered the ornaments to the front of the cards using 3D foam tape and glued the ends to the back of the layers using double sided tape. Next, I glued these layers to the card fronts. Unfortunately, on the dark card I was a little too enthusiastic with my sponging when I did the edge of the card and the greeting was no longer looked as crisp as I wanted it to be so I backed it with a piece of white cardstock which was more what I was looking for.
That makes five for this year. I will have to count up the few I have left over from last year and start a running total!! Have you started your Christmas cards?? If you are needing some inspiration my sister, Sylvia, is running a year long monthly Christmas Card challenge which can provide some framework for getting them done regularly.
Therese
