Mijts Blog

I love Christmas!

For several years now, I have made all my Christmas cards. Last year (being in PNG and needing to fill in time!) I got a bit carried away – and made many more cards than I needed!
I make my cards by using up scraps of paper and card from my scrapbooking.
Here are a few of the many cards that I still have from last year:

Sometimes I take a pre-printed piece of card and just add a strip of paper, some ribbon or a charm and a message – so they don’t take too long to make!

I have a Cuttlebug cutting/embossing ‘machine’ and used it to emboss backing card or even to cut a shape to add to a card.

Last year, trees featured on many of my cards.

Last week I started making cards for this year. While I was in Brisbane back in July I bought 2 sheets of paper at the Kaisercraft shop and used them to make these cards – quick and easy – and I love the use of less traditional pastel colours! (Unfortunately the scanner hasn’t done real justice to the colours!)

I was able to make 12 cards using those 2 pieces of paper, some card scraps and a bit of kindy glitz!

The other thing that I did while I was home last time was to pre-cut and emboss some white card using my cuttlebug – and I have made another 2 dozen cards featuring the embossed ‘pictures’ and a few crystals and pearls.

A piece of ribbon or a hand-written message and they quickly came together!

Now, what do do with those 30 or so extra cards I have from last year????