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.

Rudolph the Dragon

Austin: I do lots of Santa cards with the dragon. I normally put them on a New York Card because I think it looks cool but I like this one too. I like how Santa is dropping presents, makes it a really good Christmas card.
I love the background watercolouring. I love watercolouring because it's so fun and I enjoy doing it.
Everything about the card is such a good design and I love the painted mountains because they make the background look good.

Sally: This is actually a deceptively simple card, That background is actually a simple watercolour background with black, watercolour painted mountains, a lot of flicking with white watercolours and a simple 4 pointed star.

Winter Skating Party

Austin: I enjoyed making this card it was quite hard but I enjoyed making it. I love the watercolour background and the mountains this is an awesome card.
I really like the skating people, looks so cute and I love the sentiment in silver, it really stands out.
The glitter paper is so neat and cute and makes the card shine. Looks so gorgeous

Sally: Our mum came up with the concept for this card. She comes up with these conceptual ideas & then it's really fun trying to turn them into cards.
I especially love the colours on this. I gave our mum Pinterest & got her to pick a colour swatch of how she wanted the animals coloured & I think she did a pretty good job, they look perfect on this background, so well done mum 😊 

Simon Says Stamp November Card Kit

Austin: I like all these cards. I like how different cards there are I really like the cards I like how we can do so many different things. This kit stamp set is really good for beginners and it would have helped me at the beginning, that's why it's an amazing stamp set.
I like the watercolour card with the trees it looks lovely and a great design. The twine is what makes the card really sparkle because twine is so lovely and amazing. It's a really different card.

Sally: I used to get card kits all the time when I was first making cards & at least half the time I would have no idea what to make. I think I was so worried about doing something new that I would never make anything. So yeah, it's way more fun with Austin who totally doesn't care about that. Plus I did Kristina Werner's card sketch trick & it helped Austin & I choose which cards we wanted to make with the kit. We ended up making these 5 cards.

Cozy Companion

Austin: I really enjoyed this card and it was a disaster all the way through, it was hard making the card work but how it turned out looks amazing and wonderful.

I really love the fox sat next to the fire and I really love the card, so many good ideas and I really love the card. Sally did so good colouring and glitter is so pretty and the watercolour is so cool, I love it Sally so clever she has so good ideas I love it, it so awesome. It have so many good ideas.

Sally: Oh this card was so hard to sort! I can't believe how stressful it was to make an indoor card, why do we struggle so much? We started out by trying to make a window card with clever die cutting in the window & blending & glitter paste stencilling inside. In retrospect, that was way too much. First off the blending looked okay....the second time but the glitter paste totally ruined it. Yeah, and then we did the watercolouring & made the window.....which totally didn't work (clever die cutting is harder than it looks on youtube lol) then FINALLY we settled on this design. We totally love how it worked out though so I guess all's well that ends well.

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.