Out of This World Christmas

Austin: I really love the card I really tried my best, I love the card. I made it for a Lawn Fawnatics competition for cards for boys, the idea for different cards for boys and girls is a bit silly everyone likes nice cards. But it was fun to make something different. I found this specific card very hard to focus and make the card I loose concentration on the card but I made a video and liked being in the video, it made me feel very professional and grown up.
I love the shaker card but I prefer the one with the planets more, I like watercolour the planets are so pretty.

Sally: We often do cards in twos, it's just as easy to do everything twice & when you have to make more than 100 Christmas cards a year it's best to make as many as possible. Anyway, we like to make multiples but not identical cards if that makes sense.

Christmas in April

Don't worry, it's not Christmas card time yet. I make Christmas Cards all year long, I need to make a lot of cards and I am a slow card maker so I start early....like boxing day early.

I used a mask to create the mountains and I blended the sky with shaded lilac distress ink and the mountains in a grey distress oxide ink weathered wood on a piece of neenah solar white cardstock. That sorted the background. Then I dye cut the border out of another piece of neenah solar white cardstock using the lawn fawn fancy scalloped rectangles and a simon says stamp stitched rectangle die, it cut out a lovely border.

I also dye cut the memory box alpine tree on white card it cut out perfectly.  Then I cut a piece of acetate to the perfect size for the card using the lawn fawn die I used for the fram. Next I used foam tape on the card to stick the card, before I stick everything together I stamped the sentiment (from the Hero Arts Warm Hogs stamp set using Hero Arts Dusty Blue) on the background. Finally I put sequins in the card to make it a 'shaker' card. I picked lots out and then put them on the card.

My sister coloured the bunny (from the Mama Elephant Pix Happy Holidays) in copic markers and then I die cut it and stuck it on the card.

What do you think? I like the shaker and the background showing round the frame. Shakers are lots of fun I think I will do lots this year. My sister has ordered me some My Favourite Things shaker pockets to make it easier to do them. She says shakers are annoying to make.
Do you like making shakers? Do you have any advice?

My Super Duper Superhero

This is one of my favourite cards as I really like super heroes and New York and this card has both. On the front of the card I blended the background using Distress Inks and then die cut a silhouette of New York using black card (My Favourite Things: New York Skyline) I added a monster (Lawn Fawn: Monster Mash) and a super hero - with his dog (Mama Elephant: Tiny Heros).
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Inside the card I blended the background and added some splashes of gold. For the pop up (Lawn Fawn: Pivet Pop Up) panel I blended a background and added another die cut silhouette of New York. I had planned to put some of the super heroes and at least one monster on acetate but this didn't work so I stuck them slightly over the edge of the panel instead.

I think this card works really well and I am very happy with it.

Out of this world

I saw an idea similar to this on another card ( by Shammy's crafts) where it was a pop up card with aliens and astronauts. I thought it was a really good idea and wanted to do something similar using astronauts in a pop up card.

I designed the inside of the card first. The pop up panel ( Lawn Fawn: Pivit Pop Up) is water colour using liquid water colour. The background of the card is blended - I needed the die cut cloud panels (Lawn Fawn: Stitched Clouds) to cover where I'd put finger prints, but I think the clouds work vert well.

On the pop up I added some aliens (Lawn Fawn: Monster Mash) and an astronaut (Lawn Fawn: Out of This World). The rockets and the stars where attached to strips of acetate to make them stand out.

On the front of the card the background is made with liquid water colour- which is a technique I really like because its easy and looks good. The moon surface (Lawn Fawn: Stitched Hillsides) is blended. I coloured everything else using copics pens. I added a few sequins to finish the card.