Hellooo, Happy Belated New Year to you.
Here I am with my first DT post for January 2026 - a bright new year that promises to bring more fabulous projects and crafting for Country View Crafts and Challenges. The theme for this month has been chosen by the lovely Zoe and it’s ‘Snowflakes + Stars’.
The challenge is open worldwide and you can join the group here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/164920247712393
You must use products from brands that Country View Crafts stocks and please list them in your entry. You can enter 5 times each month with different projects. We’ve got a fabulous £20 prize voucher that one randomly selected winner will win this month.
Well, here we are in January already - a new year, new beginnings.
I know Christmas is done and dusted for 2025 but I’m still in the mood and decided to make a couple of Christmas cards for my first DT make for January. I like the simplicity and quick compilation of these.
First I chose my backgrounds and focal elements from Stamperia The Owls House range. I used the Journal pad but you can still use elements from the 12 x 12 paper pad too. I fussy cut out the elements I wanted to use.
In keeping with the snowflake theme, I die cut some snowflakes from the Sizzix Scribbly Snowflakes set for one of my cards as I’d used a printed die cut from The Owls House range for the other one. It's always good to die cut a bunch of these for future use (ie my second DT project to come :-D ).
I layered my backgrounds onto silver mirri card and then layered my elements onto these. These owls are so cute!
I then mounted these toppers onto my main card substrate. I added some Glossy Accents to the eyes and berries.
Finally to finish I added some diamantés and stamped out some sentiments from my stash. I edged the sentiments with Distress Oxide Iced Spruce.
And here’s a start to my 2026 Christmas cards. Long may it continue, ha ha ha.
I hope you like my quick cards and may be inspired to get a head start on your own Christmas Cards for 2026 too.
And please do join our challenge on Facebook to win that awesome gift voucher.
Thank you for stopping by my blog.
Hugs,
Carol xx
Products used: ( if anything is out of stock, you can contact Brenda at Country View Crafts to see if she can order it in for you).
Sizzix 665582 Scribbly Snowflakes
Stamperia The Owls House Paper Pad
Ranger Archival Ink Jet Black
Ranger Glossy Accents
Distress Oxide Mini Iced Spuce
