Saturday 23 November 2013

Fa la la la la la la la la

You're singing the "la"s and seeing whether I got the right number aren't you? :-) Here's a great way to make quick cards and use up some of those stickers and peel-offs.

Take a blue card blank and cut a piece of thin white card to size so that it would mat on top. Using scissors, cut a wavy line through the white card. This gives you two pieces of white card that are the right size to fix to the front of two blue card blanks and look like snow-covered hills!

"fa la la la la la la la la"

I stamped some birds from one of my favourite free magazine stamps last year and coloured them with distress markers. A sentiment, some tree stickers  and the star stickers finished the card off nicely!

N.B. If you don't have blue card blanks, you can use white card blanks and blue card to make the sky. You make the card just the same, but stick the blue over the white.

 

As you can see, I had so much fun making these cards...

 

... I made a whole bunch of them!

 

I never like to make two the same, so I moved the stamping around, changed the colours, used stars instead of snowflakes, added some snow to some with a white opaque pen, etc.

 

Some have more trees than others lol! See you again tomorrow for some more snowy scenes. Maddy x

12 comments:

  1. What a great set of cards - must dig out that stamp and use it again!

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  2. Such fabulous fun cards Maddy, I love the design and wonderful image.
    I hope you have a good weekend
    Sue xx

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  3. These cards are such fun, those birds made me smile :D Hopped from docraft

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  4. What a neat idea to make some fab Christmas cards. Love them!
    And, yes, I counted the Las :-)
    Caroline xxx

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  5. Maddy, I love these cards. They are so fantastic. I was having a good ole root about your blog...goodness Misses, you have been on a Christmas card roll! They all look amazing. Your snow globe cards are so creative. I love these wee birds you used and its even better when they are freebies. Fantastic cards Maddy. Lee x

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  6. Oh I love these they are great, and all unique. xx

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  7. Fab set of cards, those birdies are so cute. My little girl's Izzy Whizzy :)

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  8. hi Maddy, those birds look like they are having fun in the snow, a gorgeous set of cards, Fi x

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  9. Hi Maddy love the card and the tutorial gorgeous. Love Alison xx

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  10. You have been really busy. This is a fab set of cards. I also like to work in little changes, so that no two cards are ever the same - I just make an exception for Christmas cards for our own use, as I just need too many,
    Heike xx

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  11. Hiya...loving this set of cards, I've returned for a second look.

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  12. such cute cards! love those little singin robins... fab :) (Sorry I'm a bit late - hopping from Docrafts ) x

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