** God I just love computers, brilliant when they’re working but bloody annoying when the crash on you twice in 15 minutes and you lose everything you’d just typed, and by that I mean this post! Twice!**
Like the title says, never could follow instructions! Sarn at Stamping For Pleasure wants us to make six Christmas cards, all the same, for this months Rudolph Day Challenge! After I picked myself up off the floor at the thought of producing six cards I rootled through my Christmas paper scraps box to see what I could come up with as I didn’t want to cut into any more full sheets of paper for this. Naturally I couldn’t produce enough snippets to make all the cards exactly the same so I decided to make them all to the same design instead, that way I could pair up pieces of snippets and reduce that mountain somewhat. So my cards are the same but not identical, rather like brothers and sisters instead of sextuplets!
And just to show that these are all indeed snippets, here’s my desk when I was pairing up colours and patterns.
And here are all six of the cards together, hard to photograph to show you them. All of the pieces of ribbon are also offcuts and were all lying around on my desk too! The green grosgrain on the left is the ribbon that I picked up on the stairs at work last week, obviously someone spent that day walking around the building with only one bow in their hair!! The cards are quite small, 5″ x 4.5″, and I employed the production line technique to speed up the process, very important as it was 101F (37C) yesterday and it was a tad warm in my upstairs room! After cutting the papers to size I used a corner rounder on the bottom piece and wrapped a coordinating ribbon around the top piece before sticking them down. I chose matching inks and stamped the same sentiment from a Fiskars set on to scraps of the stamping card before cutting them out. I also added a single pearl in the same or a coordinating colour.
I stood a couple of them on an embellishment tin that was on my desk but it’s still not great so here are a few more pics.
Greens – This is the pair that I think needs a little more work, I put the ribbon too high on the paper and it just doesn’t look right. I’m thinking something small, like a punched snowflake with a gem in the centre, stuck to the ribbon on the left would be best. Papers are DCWV on the left and on the right, DCWV (top) and MME (bottom). Ink is Versamagic Brilliance Cottage Ivy.
Blues – I like these, especially the one on the right. Papers are DCWV on the left and on the right all digital freebies, at the top from Jen Allyson @ Two Peas In A Bucket and I’m afraid I can’t recall the bottom piece but it was also a free digital download. Ink is ColorBox Q Sapphire Silk. You might notice that the sentiment on the left has a blue border around it…. my production line broke down right there as I cut the panel 1/4″ too small so had to mount it on a bit of blue Bazzil!
Reds & Pinks – These two are my favourites, along with the right hand blue one above. Papers on the left are Bo Bunny (top) and DCWV, ink is Versamagic Brilliance Old Olive. On the right we have MME (top) and a piece from a Crafts Beautiful free paper pad on the bottom, and the ink is ColorBox Q Merlot.
Card Recipe:
- Card: Blanks from Michaels ~ Bazzil
- DP: DCWV ~ MME ~ Jen Allyson Free Digi Download ~ Bo Bunny ~ Crafts Beautiful Magazine Free Christmas Papers
- Stamp: Fiskars Seasons Greetings Set
- Ink: Versamagic Brilliance Old Olive & Cottage Ivy ~ ColorBox Q Merlot & Sapphire Silk
- Tools: Fiskars Corner Rounder
- Embellies: Ribbon off cuts from various sources including found and magazine freebies ~ Pearls from Michaels ~ Star from ??
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Challenges:
Rudolph Day ~ Multiple Choice
Pixie’s Craft Workshop ~ Use Up Your Snippets
Winter Wonderland ~ Monochromatic (I think most of these cards are mon0chromatic but just ignore if they’re not enough)
One Stop Craft Challenge ~ Christmas In June
Lisa said:
Great cards. Wish I had time to look for challenges to suit my cards to!
linda said:
thanks for popping by. oooh, i LOVE these in all the different colours and patterns with such an eye-cathing layout! this is what i need to do to avoid the tedious chore of mass producing the same card!
Stamping For Pleasure (Sarn) said:
Cor . . . great use of your snippets Brenda. Your snippet pile must’ve gone done a bit now! The Rudolph Day challenge was for 6 cards, but they didn’t have to be identical.
I love all your colour co-ordination and that sentiment is fab!
Thanks for joining in. Good luck in the draw.
Hugs
Sarn xxx
Di said:
Sorry, but I laughed here – it was like a reprise of loads of my own problems too 🙂 Fabby results in the end and a good few snippets used as well as taking on Mission Impossible with six cards in one fell swoop! Extra goes on the swings Brenda me ole fruit! Di xx
Kathleen said:
6 great cards, love the difference in the colours and papers, they all go so well with the design. I recognise a lot of the papers and isn;’t it great to finally find a use for them.
Thanks for your comment it really made me giggle.
Kath x
Hettie said:
Gorgeous set of cards Brenda! See they weren’t too hard were they? And now you have six lovely cards ready for posting in December! And a lot of snippets out of the mountain, or is yours like mine, never goes down?!!
Hugs
xx
Mrs A. said:
All great cards but my favourite is the blue on the right. Iv’e actually got something on my blog made from material!!!!!! Got a few other makes coming up too so I haven’t forsaken my needlecraft entirely. Hugs Mrs A.
Darnell J Knauss said:
Good for you for tweedling the challenge just a bit! You’ve done a great job and used up lots of snippets! Sounds like I caught a case of computer troubles, too. Computers, hate ’em, but can’t live w/o ’em!
Kate said:
by you have been busy, and oh I love the colour choice of your monochromatic creations, just perfect for our challenge at the Winter Wonderland
Hugs Kate xx
Amanda said:
Such gorgeous cards and fab idea of making them in sets like this, will certainly reduce the amount to be made in the christmas mad rush. Hugs, Amanda x
Sarah Costello said:
Such lovely cards…the pink one is my favourite but they are all great!!
Squirrel said:
To be fair hun, only the lefthand blue one truly counts as monochromatic, but I love all of them and your fabulous designs, the papers are gorgeous. I am so pleased you shared them with us at Winter Wonderland this week. Hugs, Sxxx
Mikes Gal said:
Beautiful cards Brenda, love the colours you’ve chosen!
Bug hugs xx
Barbara said:
Such wonderful cards and great use of your scraps… I have to remember these once I get into mine!
Debbie said:
Beautiful creations. Thank you for joining us at Winter Wonderland this week.
Debbie x