365 Cards - Day 167 - GiftWrap

This is also an August challenge - to make a card that looks like a gift wrapped package.

What do you mean you wouldn't put buttons and a gingerbread man on a present? Whyever not! chortle.

Anyway another A6 card using leftover paper from the English Paper Co - the full sheet of green hessian (offcuts were used for the Day 130 Humorous Card), a leftover gingerbread man from the paper mainly used for Day 130 Humorous Card and the buttons/ tartan ribbon on vanilla hessian were leftover bits from the paper used for Day 161 Embellishments card.

So, taking 6x6" paper pages with 1x green hessian, 1x tartan and gingerbread and 1x vanilla hessian with buttons/ tartan ribbon, stars, puddings, hearts, holly etc - I've made 3 separate A6 cards. I am quite pleased with the frugality and the way they turned out! Again 8 of each due to the mix of papers in the two identical packs I bought in the sale at Puffin Crafts. (Go and see the shop if you're in East Dulwich, they might be closing down and have 40% off everything except a few items that have been reduced for a while already).

365 Cards - Day 161 - Collage Embellishments

This is a challenge from August, so getting closer - to have a card that's all collage embellishments. So this is a bit tenuous, however, the basic paper is vanilla hessian with sentiments and the pudding, ivy and button already on it. Another piece of paper has the same elements and also stars and buttons and ribbon. So I fussy cut them out and used foam pads on the elements, and used a row of buttons & tartan ribbon border from that other page. All English Paper Co Christmas pack (same paper range as the gingerbread men).

This time I made 8 cards each from the packs.

365 Cards - Day 130 - Humorous

This challenge is from July, and the card is to be humorous. This is the best I can do, it makes me smile, so that's good enough for me! The paper is English Paper Co again, that Christmas pack, there was a page of gingerbread men on tartan (2 rows) and a page of green hessian, which nicely makes this A6 card.

365 Cards - Day 26 - Disliked Colour

And this one's a challenge from even earlier - March! And why did it take so long? Well, because you had to use a colour you dislike... To be honest, there aren't really any colours I seriously dislike working with, but this trees motif was a third of a 6x6" paper that had a star (Day 79 Favourite Manufacturer - English Paper Co) and baubles (Day 67 Pink) motif also - all from a Festive Frost pack. The other two came together into cards quite naturally as toppers on top of paper from the same pack, but I couldn't get this to match anything at all, and as you know I hate wasting scraps.

So eventually I picked up the black using some black cardstock from Puffin Crafts, which I had to line with copier paper inside as vellum looks nice but I can't manage to use it as a liner without

the glueing medium showing up. The trees are fussy cut with foam pads on top of an identical layer as a topper.

The great thing is that with a separate Christmas variety pack and the Festive Frost subpack that I've bought over the last month or so in the sale meant I've been able to make 7 of each of the three quite quickly - I've decided to make cards in batches and sell them closer to Christmas, not sure how or where or when. So am now using the 365 Card challenges to see if any of the challenge cards I make can be made in batches and are saleable.

365 Cards - Day 67 - Pink

This is a challenge from way back in June, I've done a list of the days I've missed, and as I make random cards, I'm going to post them up for the relevant day.

So, this is using Christmas Frost English Paper Co. striped paper and a third of a sheet (x2) which had a star, some trees and these baubles on it. I've already used the star on a purple snow background for Day 79 Favourite Manufacturer (which I did at the time). I've used the trees recently too, and will post that for Day 26 'disliked and rarely used colour' soon.

Anyway, the theme was pink, and this card has pinky lavender & red baubles on a striped pink & lavender & black lined background. The baubles are fussy cut and raised on foam pads on top of the same image as a topper.