Good morning, Maja Friends, welcome to the blog today 🙂
With Christmas coming closer and closer, I think it’s a good moment to start some serious Christmas cardmaking 😉 For my today’s post I created two cards, using the latest Joyous Winterdays collection and the traditional holiday red and green palette:
Both my cards feature a manger scene chipboard pieces. In the first card I chose darker red and green flourish patterns layered upon light paper for contrast:
I covered the chipboard piece with crackle accents and decorated it with die-cut leaves and snowflakes, a petaloo flower, tiny pom-poms and crystals and an acrylic angel button:
In the other card I created a shadowbox frame for the chipboard piece, but as the card is to be mailed, I kept it just barely raised:
I covered the chipboard manger with glitter and decorated with a mulberry flower, large crystal that looks like frozen ice, and some die cuts:
I really love how easy it is to get a vintage, shabby look for your projects with Maja papers! Just perfect for traditional Christmas cards 🙂
And here’s what I used to make my cards:
Maja Design papers:
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Beautiful pine
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Outdoors
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Christmas time
Other: dies: Magnolia, Impression Obsession, Sizzix, Joy!; holly punch: Woodware; flowers: Petaloo, Wild Orchid Crafts; chipboard: Wycinanka; glitter: Ranger; pom-poms, button: my stash.
I do hope you find some inspiration for your Christmas cards 🙂
See you soon!
and some close ups:
I have used lots of layers, little bits and pieces that I love to include in my cards.
using the die cuts gives you wonderful layering quite easy,
the snowman is fussy cut from die cut sheet and I have added some kraft underneath it, as well as made some die cutting from the kraft cardstock.
Joyous Winterdays collection is just so pretty:
Have a lovely day,
