Super simple Christimas cards

Some more super quick Christmas cards.  Elves and Mrs Claus are from the Paper Doll Dress ups cricut cartridge.  Faces are Peachy Keen stamps (love them!)  Simple patterned paper with some stitching around the edges, whack on an Amy R sentiment and I'm done!  I'm all for quick and easy this Christmas, that's for sure!

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A couple more Christmas cards...

Another couple of super-quick and easy Christmas cards.  I am sticking with basic, flat designs for my Christmas cards this year, just making it easy to post.

For the first card I cut out a star on my cricut machine (I think I used Birthday bash cartridge).  I used the star on a separate card.  I used the negative space for this card.  First I flipped it over and laid it on top of my card base, so that I could align my stamps and make sure they were in the right spot.  Then I stamped the two Amy R sentiments, then attached the paper with pop dots.  I think it's ridiculously simple but effective - just how I like it when I'm on the verge of December and haven't started my Christmas cards yet!  This would be a good one to mass produce, especially when I could also make cards with the stars that I cut out.

The second card is also very simple.  I cut out Santa from the Paper Doll Dress ups cartridge and attached him to the Kaiser patterned paper.  This paper was perfect as I felt I didn't need to do any other embellishing at all!  I stamped a 'Ho ho ho' sentiment (another Amy R stamp set) and glued a pom pom to his head and I was done.  Too easy!

I am entering my star card into a couple of challenges:
Scrap Creations - This weeks challenge is "Merry Christmas"! We want to see what you are creating for the holidays.
The Paper Girls Challenge - our challenge this time is for you to create something Christmas or winter themed!

I've never played along with these two challenges before, so I'm looking forward to browsing all the entries and getting some more Christmas card inspiration!

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Centre-step birthday card

This card was made for the Birthday Sundaes challenge this week.  It's a card for a girl who is turning 6 in a few weeks.  The challenge at Birthday Sundaes was:

We are challenging you to create a stair step birthday card. This includes center step and side step cards too!

I love making cards that are folded differently.  This is a centre step card and was really easy to make.  I used a couple of MFT dies to make the rolled rose and the purple shape that I wrote the sentiment on.  I also used the grass die to cut the felt into grass.  The 'Super-girl' was cut from the 'Paper doll dress ups' cartridge.  Papers and stamps were kaisercraft.

This is a side view of the card.

 I was chuffed to see that my 'Happy Bearthday' card was chosen as one of the featured cards from last weeks challenge at Birthday Sundaes - thanks everyone!

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Clown Birthday Card

This card has been the cause of much frustration and disappointment!  It could have something to do with me taking three attempts just to make the base of the card and then nothing seemed to work from then on!  The first attempt made it into the bin after some crooked cutting made the card look ridiculous!  The second attempt quickly followed into the bin after some incorrect measurements (my fault, not the instructions) caused the 'flip flop' part to flop way out the side (again, making it look ridiculous!).  My third attempt at making the base was successful but I just am not happy with it.  I think it's because I did it on black cardstock and I should have used pink or yellow.  Something about the card just really annoys me!  It has had two different lots of ribbon attached and pulled off and then in the end I just thought, well, this is it, it's not going to get any better!

I love the style of the card, just not so happy with how it all came together.  The colours on these photos are not as vivid as in real life, the cardstock behind the clown is actually bright turquoise but it looks blue in this photo.  The pinks and aquas look a bit washed out in these pictures too.  Anyway, here it is, in all its not-so-perfect glory!

Here is how the card looks from the front (excuse my finger in the photo!):

And this is how it flips as you open the card:

Once it is open, the centre piece flips to reveal the other side, where you can have your sentiment and write your birthday message.

The instructions for this flip-flop card came from here.  I think I need to go and make another one in a different colour to see how that works!

I am entering this card in the Peachy Keen sketch challenge.  I rotated the sketch 90 degrees to make it work for this card.  Here is the sketch:








The clown on the card is from Paper Doll Dress ups (cut at 2.5 inches).
The sentiments are from Kaisercraft.
Papers are from My Minds Eye

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Have 'yourelf' a very merry Christmas...

That's the stamped sentiment that I wish I had for this card!  Never mind.

I made this card for the sketch challenge at the Card Positioning Systems website.  This was their sketch:


 

Now that I've started making Christmas cards I'm finding it quite addictive.  I love them!  I've nearly finished all my Christmas shopping and there are Christmas things everywhere in the shops and I am really trying hard not to pull out the Christmas decorations too early (although I confess I have already put two Christmas photo cubes and two tiny ornaments on our buffet...but you would hardly notice!)  I used to always follow the 'Not before December 1st' rule but it's just so exciting when you have kids that it's hard to resist!

The elf was cut at 3.5 inches from the Paper Doll Dress ups cartridge. 
The patterned papers are from My Minds Eye. 
The sentiment stamp, holly stamp and reindeer rubons are all from Kaisercraft.
The stamped elf face is a Peachy Keen stamp (everyday faces assortment).  I love the wink face - makes the elf look so cheeky!

Thanks for looking!