Crafty Adventurista

Quick and Easy Christmas Card

Hello, 

It's almost Christmas and time for my first December DT project for Country View Crafts to inspire you to make something Christmassy and enter their December Challenge on Facebook which can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.1625820124831250&type=3 

The prize this month is a fabulous £25 voucher to spend at the Country View Craft online store so you won't want to miss out on this.

I thought I'd make a quick and easy Christmas card for when you know you're running out of time to make anything too complex.

So without further ado, here's the instructions on how to make this.

First, I cut a piece of watercolour card to 4 x 4 inch to form the base.

I dabbed the Distress Inks onto my craft mat, spritzed with water and then dabbed it onto Speckled Egg all over first, then Salvaged Patina towards the top and then Prize Ribbon above that.

Then I stamped the large snowflake in one corner with Distress Ink Pumice Stone, and then in the opposite corner with Distress Ink Tumbled Glass.

I then stamped the sentiment Let it Snow from the same Visible Image set as the snowflake, in the bottom right hand corner.

With the stamping completed, I mounted it first onto black cardstock (leaving only a small edge), and then mounted this onto Kraft cardstock that is 11inch width x 5.5inch height and then folded, to form the card.

I added a small wooden snowflake to the centre of the top right stamped snowflake and then added a little blue gemstone to the centre, but if you haven't got a wooden snowflake, you can always cut from one from a die and use that. And here you have it! 

You can turn out multiples of these in no time, by using a stamping platform and rotating the watercolour paper to reflect the two snowflakes in the two corners.

 I hope this inspires you to get making some Christmas cards/tags when you think you really don't have much time. 

Wishing you a fabulous Crafting Christmastime.

Products used for this card are:

Visible Image Let it Snow stamps
https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/visible-image-clear-stamp-set---let-it-snow-152392-p.asp

Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Inks:
Salvaged Patina
https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/ranger---tim-holtz---distress-ink-pad---salvaged-patina-134123-p.asp

Speckled Egg
https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/ranger---tim-holtz---distress-ink-pad---speckled-egg-121192-p.asp

Prize Ribbon
https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/ranger---tim-holtz---july-2021-release---distress-ink-pad-prize-ribbon-136375-p.asp

Pumice Stone
https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/ranger---tim-holtz---distress-oxide-ink-pad---pumice-stone-96663-p.asp

Tumbled Glass
https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/ranger-tim-holtz-distress-ink-pad---tumbled-glass-3052-p.asp

Gemstone (cut out from design)
https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/basic-grey-bling-it-designer-rhinestones-tree---sky-3742-p.asp

Wooden snowflake from my stash.