I love Christmas, but like to keep it firmly in December, where it belongs. Since I started teaching classes, I’ve had to begin my Christmas card planning a little bit earlier. I was finding it difficult to come up with designs, when we were looking forward to carving pumpkins and watching fireworks.
I got over it by adapting a previous design into a more seasonal version. This was a Thank you card I made some time ago. I took a different flower from the set and switched the soft vintage colours for a more traditional red, gold and green.
The final touch was the ‘merry’ stamped tag, hanging from the candy striped twine. I made a little gift box/treat holder to match. It’s very easy to make from half a sheet of A4 cardstock and I’ll share the instructions on Saturday. The first of three Christmas themed tutorials for December. I hope you’ll find them useful.
Gorgeous card and box - really looking forward to your tutorials x
ReplyDeleteI love the card, it's amazing how different cards can look when you change the colour. x
ReplyDeletea super idea...x
ReplyDeleteI really like the idea of taking a design and giving it a Christmas twist. Nice one!
ReplyDeleteThe same format,but so totally different.
ReplyDeleteVery pretty and I love the idea of Gavin's a matching gift box
ReplyDeleteGavin??? Having is what I meant to type!
DeleteOh that's lovely Fi :)
ReplyDeletebeautiful card and I love that box!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful colors.
ReplyDeleteRinda
They are both just lovely ... very pretty, elegant and stylish. A great demonstration of the power of a good design.
ReplyDeleteI think that is genius planning and not running out of time at all. We shouldn't feel like we need to reinvent the wheel every time, especially when they were beautiful to begin with and are beautiful again.
ReplyDeletelove the clean unfussy cards and yes the first stamp (gorgeous) would look great in seasonal colours too.
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