Magical Christmas

Austin: I thought Sally was totally crazy by ripping the mountains up but made the card even awesome. I made the card to sent children in need and I think they are going to like it. What I felt when I was making it was fun and exiting. I enjoyed doing the watercoloured smooshing makes the mountain. I like the way the card is still looking awesome.

Sally:  Hi, so we always end up making way more Christmas cards than we need to hand out, what can I say? Austin loves making Christmas cards 😊 Instead of throwing them out of anything like that we like to give cards to various card drives or charities that collect cards to give to people in hospital. This year in addition to the Caring Hearts card drive we do every year we also made cards for Cards for Hospitalized Kids & Post Pals which are two different charities that give cards to kids who are seriously sick. Austin is a really compassionate kiddo & loves to be able to help people & if he can do it with his cards all the better.

Bright Starry Night

Austin: The best part is the sentiment and the trees and the background and the stars.

Sally: We do so many winter night cards we weren’t sure how to make something a bit new. So we didn’t. We took the key elements of our winter night cards & just simplified it, polished it & ended up with an elegant, sophisticated, clean & simple card (or as CAS as we get lol).

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.

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.