Today I will be featuring quite a few cards most of them are mini cards that are 4.25x2.75in. Every year I make mini cards for my co-workers at work, usually teachers and staff within my department or work with closely. I also make a few for my sister whom gives out gifts for teachers and staff that help with her daughter and son's education. This year I have about 20-25 mini cards to create and about 10-15 regular A-2 sized cards. I try to make each one unique, however, with a few more cards this year, I want to see how much I can get done before I start replicating designs. I have so much fun creating these cards every year. I usually start creating in October so that I could get them done in time, so from October-December the cards I make are usually Holiday Cards.
This year I used a combination of a few dies from various companies: Gina Marie Stitch Scallop, MFT's Stitched Rounded Rectangle, Inside/Out Stitched Rectangle, Birch Tree, and Stitched Scallop Boarder 1 and 2, Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Boarder, Mountain Boarder, Tree Boarder and House Boarder dies. These dies are perfect for winter scenes. I also used quite a few Stencils to create drifts and snow. Of course I have to use my distress inks and oxides to add color and dimension to the scene. A new product to me this year is texture paste and boy am I loving it. Here are a few cards I have made so far. Hope you like it.
I created a full A-2 pop-up version of a mini card I made on the right. I used my pop up card method that I previously blogged about here.
Here is a close up of the mini card. I popped up the penguin and lamp. I used MFT's Drift Stencil to create a bit on dimension. I am loving the Copic combination for Tree's this year (YG 99 & YG 95 with tip to tip method for a smoother transition).
The front of the pop-up card. I created a band out of 12x12 Christmas Pattern Paper, which is the perfect length. I cut the pattern paper to 12x1.5in to wrap around the card.
Inside of the pop up card using various Lawn Fawn Dies. I used distress oxides in Salty Ocean and splattered with pearl paint and white paint from my Kuretake Gansai Tambi Pallet.
Close up of the pop up. I wanted to put a song note for the penguins, however did not want it to look out of place in the background. I used a small piece of transparency to adheare to the Penguin so it looks like its floating.
The mini MFT cards I made. I tried to keep these a bit simple and used Scallop boarders to create snow drifts as well as a stencil. I used the Birch Tree die-namics to create a scene and used Pumice Stone Distress ink to create dimension. I used Oxide colors for the bottom card with Peacock Feathers, Seedless Preserve and Faded Jeans. I used distress inks in Shaded Lilac and Blue Print Sketch for the polar bear. I used Tumbled Glass Distress ink for the Hedgehog.
PS: If you would like more up to date look at my cards click on my Instagram link on the side. I am going to try blog all my cards, but it may take some time because of the quantity of cards I have to make.
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