Super quick and easy Christmas Cards for CCB

Hello everybody, nice to have you here today!

I want to show you some super quick and easy christmas cards, I made for Canvas Corp Brands.

I used the beautiful Mixed Media Origins Mini Art Elegant wings.

Here a little sneak peek.

Find more at the Creative Studio, the blog from CCB!

Thank you for your visit and have a wonderful Christmas time!

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Another Christmas Card for CVC

Hello dear visitors, 

I hope you have not too much stress, I know, these days before christmas are very busy, so enjoy a few moments to rest.

Today I want to show you another christmas card for our Christmas Challenge over at Country View Challenges. This time I made a pretty flat one, good for mailing.

I also wanted to go for a monochromatic, restrained style.

So here it is:

I used a 15cm x 15cm (6" x 6") card, some pre gessoed watercolor paper, cut in size, slightly smaller, Distress Oxide shabby shutters and the PaperArtsy stamp set ESC07 .

I smooched the ink on my crafting surface, spritzed with water and put my paper on top. I repeated until the whole paper was covered. Then I spritzed it with water and used a paper towel to soak most of the watered color to get a very soft tone.

When the paper was dry, I created some "hills" with torn paper and DO shabby shutters, which I applied with a blending tool (sorry, I forgot to take a picture). Then I stamped the wonderful tree from the stamp set with Archival Ink Peat Moss. I also stamped only parts of the tree to make them look like standing behind the hills and to create an optical distance. I stamped the sentiment with Archival Ink Potting Soil

For some sparkle I added some snowpaste and glitter on top of the hills. Then I added some snowflakes using a stencil and modeling paste and sprinkled some glittersnow - or snowglitter? on top of them. To add more interest I stamped some flying birds on top.

Lastly I stamped some tiny "snowflakes" and made them shine with diamond stickles. I adhered the picture to the card and added some stamped christmas wishes to the inside - that´s it!

This card is flat enough to be sent by post as a "normal" card!

Here are some close ups:

I made another one in a pretty similar style, which I do not want to keep from you:

Well, now I hope you´ll find time to join in with our challenge this month! As usual, you can win a 20£ voucher to spend in the shop!
Now I want to thank you for your visit and I wish you a wonderful Advent time and a Merry Christmas!
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A Vintage Christmas Card

Hello dear visitor, a warm welcome to my blog!

First of December and only 3 weeks until it´s christmas! It´s christmas time at Country View Challenges too, we want to see your christmas makes this month.

I made a card with this wonderful vintage angel I had in my stash.

For me at christmas time glitter and gold is a must. I love the shimmer and shine, it enhances the magic of this time.

I took the vintag picture, matted it with red cardstock and golden glitter paper. I only let peek out a tiny little bit around the edges. At the bottom I glued a pearl lace for even more shine.

For the background I cut a christmas paper, designed by Astrid Maclean some years ago, to size, distressed the eges with Distress Oxide walnut stain and matted it with the glitterpaper before I glued it onto a card.

Now to my decoration:

I diecut snowflakes and a snowflake edge from white cardstock and toned it down with some Distress Ink antique linen. Now I wanted to go for a frosty look, smeared on top of the snowflake edge some Matte Medium and sprinkled on top of it crystal snow (I don´t know how it is called exactly). I thought, the edge will be seen on both sides, so I will treat the back equal. Not not my best idea! It got too heavy weight, it folded down. So I ripped off the biggest snowflake and added a smaller one, I added the glitter with a wink of stella brush pen. Way better!
The diecut snowflakes I treated the same way, but I glittered them only with the glitter brush pen.

I glued some fabric under the picture and framed the angel with snowflakes and some little snowballs, made of styrofoam balls, coated with fake snow.

A while ago I bought some flower dies for small flowers and made some poinsettias. One of them I used for my card.

To embed the poinsettia I diecut some twigs from the Tim Holtz Holiday Greens Thinlits die cut set and toned them down with Distress Oxides walnut stain. Some feathers and snowballs completed the arrangement.

The German text stamp says: "The magic of christmas" and was stamped with DO walnut stain too.

I hope you like my little card as much as I do and I´m looking forward to seeing your christmas themed pieces of art!
Thank you for your visit today - and don´t forget to hop to the blog and see more of the wonderful makes of my lovely team mates!