Christmas Cards

Well I have made a start on doing Christmas Cards. The last two weeks I have been colouring images to use on cards (Not just Christmas, but mostly Christmas). I have Finlay started turning them into cards.

These three are from the new Dottie Xmas range. Some lovely images in that kit to play around with.

All the cards have been matted and layered up using mixture of backing papers, mirror card, card put through my cuttlebug using the Swiss dots folder.

All the images have been coloured using Whispers pens, and accented using Glossy accent, Mat accent, Crackly accent, Glitter glue sakura glaze pens, Sakura stardust, Sakura souffle or a combination of them. Some I have cut out and layered up. Others I have turned into toppers, edging with washed whisper pens and doodle lines.

I have layered up the nativity using foam pads then layered deeper still the Holly and berry's.
They sky on this one Ive used my silent setter to punch holes in different sizes to act as stars. Ok I know its copying from on of the DT on Dotties world, but I liked the effect so much so I had to use it. You can see the silver mirror card through the holes, although the photo does not show it up to well at all.

Here is a close up of the holly, Ive used sakura stardust to add the glitter to these, and glossy accents on the berry's.

I love this image so much, and out of the 3 cards this one is my favourite.
I used Swiss dots embossing folder for the backing. I had to trim my folder do that there was not much of a border on the edges so that I could match up the dots easier without the border flattening the previous row of dots.

This image screamed out to have glossy accents on, I think it works very well, especially on the custard.

Holly done the same as on the previous card.

I like this card a lot also. To be honest its a tough call on if its a fave between this one and the budding Dottie.

I used Glitter glue on Santa's beared and fir, then when that dried when over the top of that with glossy accents to raise it up even more.

I also edged the roof tiles with glitter glue to act as frost on the tiles. I would have added snow, but we don't see much snow now a days.

Thanks for looking