Christmas cards (Warning: Picture overload)

Let the festive season begin! I hope everyone that will get one of the christmas cards really feels the joy and happiness of christmas. I'm pretty pleased with the results =) I've only been doing this for less then a year! So it is the first time all friends and family will get handmade cards.

I have a couple more to do, but they are going to include photos so I need some time to find the perfect one! =)

So here it comes. First some pictures of all of them

And now some presentation of each and some close ups.

This card has a lot of buttins from Basic Grey and the patterned paper is from Making Memories FaLaLa collection. I have glues the buttons with Scrappy Glue and blinged the paper and 'God Jul' a bit with stickles. Behind the buttons are a strip of punchinella and a felt ribbon. The punchinella have a secured with zig 2 way glue. A handy little pen useful for putting glue onto small pieces.

Some more pictures















Next card is a real colour bomb. I have been playing with my Derwent colour pencils and some of the Gelly Roll pens from Sakura. I love the effect both of these gives. The derwent pencils are solvable by attenuation (I don't know the corect english word...) and can be mixed into water colour effect. To add some more dimension I have added 3D crystal Lacquer on the ribbon and on the leaves. This gives a slightly rised transparent surface (which is very hard to capture on photo).














The next card is really simple to make. I have cut the scalloped edge on the Gazelle, but this can be made by hand. Just draw the scalloped edge on the backside of the paper, using something round, for example a coin, as template. The tree was drawn on free hand and cut by hand.
At the top I added a brad and the flowers are from Prima, Essentials 4. Each flower has a brad as center.

I'll continue with some more in next post.