Craft Heaven DT - A Vintage Christmas Card

Good afternoon!  I hope you have had a wonderful Christmas!  Today I'd like to show you one of the last minute cards I made.  I always leave my hand delivery cards until last, and this is one of them.  I have used gorgeous papers from Maja Design and Doohickey dies from Magnolia.

The main focus of the card is the beautiful shutters, cut with the Early Bird Volume 22, Shutter Flower and Window Shutter die.  I cut ten pieces in all so that I could glue them together to look like chipboard pieces.

I have used some older Magnolia sentiment stamps, Let it Snow and Merry Christmas.

I made the flowers using the Doohickey dies from the window shutter set, using green Foamiran.  I have inked the edges of the flowers with Aged Mahogany Distress Ink, sprinkled them with glitter and added red stamens.  I've also given them a touch of snow using Aleene's Glitter Snow.

The gorgeous gold scroll has been cut with a Doohickey die from Volume 23.

The snowflakes have all been cut using various Doohickey snowflake dies.

 The beautiful snowflake charm and seam binding are from Craft Heaven.

I hope you like it and thanks for looking!

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Let it Snow

Good morning!  I'm on a roll with the Christmas cards now!  This one features the gorgeous Tilda from the With Love From Paris Collection and Maja Design papers from their Christmas Season Collection.

I have painted Tilda with Distress Inks and once again added some Aleene's Glitter Snow around her feet and along the card edges.  I am loving this medium!

I have used the snowflake Doohickey dies from Volume 23 and added gems to their centres.  The card base was cut with the frame from Vintage Box 6.

I have used some gorgeous blue seam binding from Craft Heaven and a diamante snowflake charm.  The sentiment is an older one from Magnolia.

I hope you like it and thanks for looking!

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TOMIC December Challenge - A Christmas Gift Box

Good morning!  I hope you've had fun opening your Advent calendars this morning!  If you managed to get your hands on the Magnolia Advent calendar you might recognise the little cuties on my gift box today for our new TOMIC challenge.  I have created a round gift box with gold and cream cardstock for a sophisticated Christmas look.

For the tag I have used a Doohickey from Volume 23 and the mini wrapping tag and Tilda from the Advent calendar's early bird envelope.  It is difficult to see in the photo but I have added some Wink of Stella to Tilda's trousers to make them a shiny gold.

This little wrap tag will come in handy for all sorts of tags and bags!

I used the same circle as the tag on the lid of my box and topped it with a paper bow and pine fronds created with the incredible Doohickey die from Volume 1, and topped them with a jingle bell.

I added tiny snowflakes cut with the Doohickey dies from Volume 23 and the edge of the lid was cut with a lace edge Doohickey from the same volume.

I hope you like it and I've inspired you to join us this month at TOMIC.  Pop over to the blog to see the rest of the team's stunning gift boxes!

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Tilda With Little Snowy

Good morning!  Today for Craft Heaven I'd like to share a Christmas card using the stunning Tilda With Little Snowy from the A Lovely Christmas Collection by Magnolia.  I've also used gorgeous Maja Design Christmas paper from the Christmas Season paper collection.

As always, I have painted Tilda with Distress Inks using the no lines technique.  I have also used a white gel pen to add the snowflakes and the dots on her eyes and cheeks.  I've added Stardust Stickles to Snowy and the snowflakes.  I've also added some to the snow around Tilda's feeet.

The seam binding and mittens charm are from Craft Heaven...

...and so are the white cherry blossoms.  The snowflakes and trees were cut with Doohickey dies from Volumes 5 and 23.

I hope you like it and thanks for looking!

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Craft Heaven DT - Nutcracker Christmas Card

Today I have a special card to show you that I have created to give to my daughter this Christmas using gorgeous Christmas papers from Maja Design's Christmas Season collection: Deck the Halls and Vintage Red Light.  I have adorned the 'belly band' with some pretty vintage seam binding and a snowflake charm from Craft Heaven.

Remove the 'belly band' and we glimpse the hint of a snow scene created with Magnolia Doohickey dies.  What could be waiting for us inside?

The Nutcracker ballet!

Here is the full scene of the Sugar Plum fairy dancing while the Nutcracker looks on.  I have added sweet gingerbread houses, glittery trees and snowflakes to create the magical land of sweets!

As always I have painted the images with Distress Inks using the no lines technique.  My Sugar Plum fairy is Spellbound Tilda from the Spellbound Kit.  I removed her ice-skate by removing the ink from that part of the stamp before stamping so that she is a ballerina.  For the Nutcracker I have used Tilda from the Christmas Party Collection.  I have added tiny star shaped gems from my stash around the pair.

I have used the Theatre Curtain from the Once Upon a Time Collection to frame the 'stage'.  To get the opposite curtain I have reverse stamped it.  The curtains are also painted with Distress Inks.

I have used the Tim Holtz Pine Tree die to cut the large, glittery tree and Doohickeys for the rest of the scene.  The snowflakes are from Doohickey Volume 23.  I have added Stardust Stickles to the snow on the gingerbread houses and the white trees.

 The large snowflakes on the front are from Vintage Box Volume 4.

I hope you like it and thanks for looking!  To discover more projects using the gorgeous Maja Design Christmas papers pop over to the Craft Heaven Blog.

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