Cards for Seniors - a few Christmas cards

 A scrapbook store in the city collects Christmas cards for seniors at this time of year so I thought I should get some ready.  I made a few by reusing some commercial cards and then refurbished a few handmade cards which I have received over the years.  I will be adding several of the cards I made last week as well which will make well over two dozen cards which I will be donating to them.  I am so happy to see that these beautiful cards will have another chance to bless others this Christmas season.  

Therese

Christmas cards featuring beautiful card fronts

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I made up a few large Christmas cards for my sister.  I decided to reuse some of the beautiful card fronts I have in my stash.  These are very shimmery and glittery.  I trimmed them down a bit, added some embellishments - punched borders, glitter, paper piercing and a few embossed lines and then mounted them to coordinating card fronts to finish them off.   Therese

 

Christmas cards featuring a Santa and a red, white and gold theme

I found these three Santa images (CLKER) in my stash and decided to combine them with some red, white and gold handmade paper to make my next set of cards.  I trimmed the backgrounds from a large sheet (8.5" x 11) and cut three red cards that coordinated.  For the first card I added a flagged strip of red cardstock to the handmade paper and added a black brad before adhering it to my card.  I layered the Santa with black cardstock and then adhered it to my card front.  

For the second card I added layered gold and red ribbons to my handmade paper background then secured one end with a black brad before adhering it to my card front.  Again, I layered the Santa with black cardstock and adhered it to my card.  

For the last card I added a length of red gros grain ribbon to my background before adhering it to my card.  I layered the Santa with black and then gold cardstock.  I added four rows of paper piercing to the gold layer before securing this layer to my card.    A few more to add to the stash!!  Therese
 

All occasion cards featuring a butterfly and floral wreath (Melonheadz - digitals) and layered backgrounds

What a cute little butterfly!!  I watercoloured it to coordinate with my soft pastel and glittery background.  After it was dry, I added silver shimmer watercolour all over it to make it sparkle.  My background is adhered to a light pink card and then I added three coordinating paper strips in pink shimmer, green embossed and pearly blue - all with flagged ends.  I ran my pattern tracing wheel over the four sides of my image to add some texture with paper piercing and then mounted it over the strips uisng 3d foam tape.  

For my second card, I started with a white card and trimmed my background paper to leave a small margin.  I bordered a dark pink strip of cardstock with two strips of the same blue and then punched the lower one with a lacy border punch (MS).  I added a length of white lacy ribbon over the dark pink strip before adhering this element to my card front.  I watercoloured the floral wreath to coordinate with my card and added a faux stitched border with a black marker.  I layered on another piece of dark pink cardstock and mounted it to my card with 3D foam tape.    Therese