Christmas card cheats

With all the orders I had to do I had to cheat a little for my own! I had bought a Xmas card kit a while back full of pre printed cards and toppers, all I had to do was put them together and print out the greeting to personalise them I made 80 lol

Christmas Stockings

An A4 card I used a graphics programm to manipulate the image to turn it all black n white but leave the garland and stockings coloured and added names to each of the stockings.

I also printed extra stockings to decoupage finished with Ribbons and glitter

Decoupaged Popcorn

I used Decoupage for this card a loving christmas scene also my Pazzles for the lattice heart

Twisterpage Baubles

Two cards I made using MCS, my Pazzles and finished with stamps and glitter

Pop Corn Bear Christmas

A few more Pop corn Bear Cards using Crafters Companion Cd and

my Pazzles

Pop Corn Brear Christmas

Two popcorn bear cards in the Merry christmas range the first is finished and ready to go

the second was the way I took them to the craft fare with lots of inserts and labels to personalise them. they where a total sell out. I used Pazzles to design and cut and Crafters Companion Pop corn Cd cosy and warm.

Christmas Fairy

I used MCS for the images and Pazzles to design and cut.

Finished with glitter and stamps

Christmas Fairy Collection

Two of the Christmas fairy collection I used MCS for the images, Pazzles to design and cut.

And finished with Stamps and glitter

Beer at 50

I used my Pazzles to design and cut the image

I used MCS for the image and backing sheets and made it personal by adding the name

Christmas Love

Another from the Popcorn Bear Cd again I printed the greeting Decoupaged the image and added some glitter

Christmas Sister

I used Popcorn Bear Cdn printed the greeting and finished with Glitter

Christmas

A card I was asked to make for a Brother. I used Popcorn Bear frosty and bright, I printed the greeting and finished with glitter and ribbon

Childrens Xmas cards

Two cards for Son and Daughter.

I used MCS, I printed the greeting and background onto the cards and finished with ribbon glitter and gems

Bon Voyage

This card is to say farewell to Son and Family, This why I did not go with the normal tickets ,tags and cases and used my cuttlebug embossing plates three flowers to represent the three leaving for Australia.

I cut the wording using my Pazzles

Rock Guitar

I used Pazzles for the design and cut I stiched in the strings used the pen tool for the greeting and added a guitar border stamp and some punched musicle notes

Merry Christmas Snowflake

Another Snowflake card I used Pazzles to design and cut and die cuts for the ponsettias coloured with chalk and finished with peeloffs and glitter

Santa & stockings

I was asked to make a personal card with a fire place and stockings with names on!

I used MCS for the decoupages and to add the names on the stockings

Hairspray Musical

I used Pazzles to design and cut the card and the musical theatre Cd from card creations for the decoupage and added a few punched stars

Quads

I used decoupage designs from fee j Cd and finished with chalk and printed the card

Snow Business

Another of the snow business cards I have designed and cut using the pazzles

I finished with punched snowflakes, ribbon, glitter and gems a stamped quote and a printed greeting

No business like snow business

I used a dingbat image and pazzles to design this contemporary Christmas card then added a ribbon and a few die cut snowflakes

Bear Beez

A card for a three year old

I used the Bear Beez Cd for the decoupage, glitter and a few little butterflies

Footy Logo

A few football designs I have been working on with the Pazzles software also using the pen tool with different pens and die cuts for the embellishments

Working Man

I was asked to make a card for a man too busy to do DIY

I used Crafters Companion Occupations Male and printed the card

The Big 50

I designed this orgionally in Design Master for the Robo but have revamped it for the Pazzles.

I used one of the many mens Cds I have and MCB to twisterpage the image.

I also glittered the card after I cut it.

50th Men

A couple of the finished templates I designed and cut with my Pazzles

I also use MCB and MCS for the twisterpage and the teddie

Golden Wedding

An Anniversary card

The swirling back I got from as a free template from UK Scrappers designed by Linda Griffiths brilliant designer I used my Pazzles to cut out the design added wedding flowers and leaves,Gems and a sentiment

New Templates

I have been asked to make a few special Birthday cards for a shop so these are a few I have just cut with the Pazzles before decorating them

Cards for Men

A few of the men's cards I have designed over the past few months.
I have used my Pazzles with the inspiration studio software similar to Funtime.
I have also used Cd's which there are a great variety available on the market.

I love using Cds for images and backing as you can mix and match and with MCS
you can recolour your image.

Painter and Decorater

I designed and cut the 18s with Pazzles

And used male Occupation CD from Crafters Companion

The Dr

I designed and cut this using Pazzles also MCS and crafters Companion for thr image and background

Mans 40th

This card I designed and cut using the Pazzles,

I used Papermania stamps and Pro markers to colour in

Tee off

Another Golf card again using MCS and Men's Hobbies & sports CD.
I stamped the background using Papermania stamps and
Daisy & Dandilion stamp for the greeting

Golf

This card I designed with the help of MCS and my little grandson
who wanted to stamp with the wink I let him stamp golf balls in brown and green
when he had finished I kept the sheet as it looked good

Lacy apertures

A set of cards I was asked to make similar but different is what i was asked. this is what I came up with.

I designed the lacy apertures and cut with the pazzles then embellished with die cuts, glimmer chalks and glitter

Star Card

This is a christmas star card for a little boy to give his grandparents but he will fill it with photos first.

I used Red card stock and gold mirri board wich I put through the cuttlebug embossing folders to embellish the card inside and out then finished with a little bit of ribbon and glitter

Bob and the Gang

I was asked to make a christmas card with bob the builder I only had one picture so I improvised and added Xmas trees, greetings, hats, glitter and a snowman

Mens Hobbies

Large 8x8 card using decoupage from the Crafters Companion Hobbies and Occupations Cd.
I used Die cuts for the the Clubs.balls and Flags.

This is a brilliant CD to work with and because you now have the option to change hair and skin colour you are now able to make your cards more personal to the recipient.

Wedding L

The lattice L was first designed for the craft robo and I revamped it so that I could cut it with the Pazzles.

I stamped the kilty couple and greeting, embossed with gold then edged the card with aqua blue ink punched out some little hearts and also edged them. The name where done using the Pazzles.

If you would like this free file pleas email me and I will send it to you please state which file either Wpc, GSD or SVG

1st birthday card

This is an A4 1 for a first birthday for a celtic fan (well I think his daddy is)
I designed and cut the card and inner layer using Pazzles and embellished with dies.
The greetings where designed in MCS

If you would like the free file please email me and I will send to you

Let it Snow

First of the Christmas card orders I am working on.
This one is a contemporary card that is going to Canada.
I used My Pazzles to cut the design which I designed in Inkscape
Used a punch for the snowflakes.
The card I coloured using cut n dry foam and pale blue ink then
finished with ribbon and glitter

If you would like this free file please email me and I will gladly send it