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Saturday 25 August 2012

First Christmas card of the year...

It's leading up to a typical English Bank holiday today - in other words, it's raining.

I was going to do the garden, but that got washed out.  Then I thought I should do housework, but my craft room was calling to me instead. Today, I thought I would go through my stash and make a card with what was already available without too much effort.

And what was available was the remnants of a Kanban christmas kit, some toppers that I printed off  last year from the Create and Craft Triple treasures cds I bought some time ago, and some snowflakes that were the bits left over from a memory box border die.

I used the card blank from the Kanban kit and stuck the snowflakes down the panel with pinflair gel.  In the inside, I distressed an embossed piece of card from the Kanban kit with tumbled glass distress ink around the edges and mounted it onto some blue shiny card to leave a very thin border.  I then ran the topper though the 'Bug using the biggest of the large labels die and mounted that in the centre of the panel using pinflair glue. Lastly, the Merry Christmas sentiment also came from the Kanban kit, but I used the tumbled glass distress inks to take the stark "whiteness" off of it.

One card done - many more to go... Especially since this is the first year that my mum won't be helping me make them.  I suspect it is going to take me a long while to do them all... :(

I was going to enter this card into the CD Sunday challenge this week - Cute Christmas but like a twit I didn't realise that the deadline was 1pm on Saturday..  *sigh*  let that be a lesson to everyone - when you enter a challenge, READ THE RULES!!!!

7 comments:

  1. Hi Jackie, it always nice to see a new face and with such a lovely card. I love the layout and the image is perfect for our challenge this week. Thanks for joining us at CD Sunday.
    Christine x
    CD Sunday DT

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  2. Hi Jackie, you have snuck in under the wire! I usually say 1pm as I take the Mr Linky off so I can use it to schedule the post ready for tomorrow, been out all day so you're in luck.

    I am so glad you managed to get a card done and were able to join us, it's a good feeling when we use some old stash too. Very pretty card and I bet it gives you the push to get started on your Christmas cards.

    Jenny x
    CD Sunday DT

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  3. such a sweet christmas card Jackie, lovely layout
    Kim x

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  4. Well I'm pleased you made it under the wire as Jenny said, the card is beautiful and deserves to be seen, thank you for joining us this week at CD Sunday.
    sue-b xx
    CD Sunday DT

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  5. What a lovely card Jackie. The image is so cute and the shape of the card is fabulous. Thanks for joining us at CD Sunday this week. Michelle x GDT

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  6. I'm glad I did a late night check for last minute entries Jackie. Super card and well done for starting on those Christmas cards.
    Thank you for joining us at CD Sunday.
    Beryl xx
    CD Sunday DT

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  7. Glad you were in time to join us this week with your lovely card. It's so pretty and always nice when we manage to use things from stash! Beautifully put together. Thank you for joining us this week and hope to see you again soon.
    Jocelyn x
    CD Sunday DT

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