25 cards of Christmas - Day 5 - Red and white stickers

Another use for the stickers from day 4. For some reason I forgot to put a bow on the Father christmas card, but never mind...

Cut a piece of red card a bit smaller than your card base and stick it down. Cut a circle from white card and emboss it with snowflakes. Stick the circle to the red card.

Attach the sticker to the centre of the circle and add a bow at the bottom of the circle.

Finish with dashed white lines using a white gel pen. On 2 cards I went around the edge of the red base and on the snowman I went around the outside of the white circle.

For the other snowman, below, I didn't use the red card, just to give it a more snowy feel.

These are really simple cards to make and they'd be really easy to make a batch of if you cut all the pieces to size first.

25 cards of Christmas - Day 4 - Stickers and white space

We're making use of white space in today's cards. They're all very similar designs using a sticker set I got from The Works.

Start with the sticker embellishment and cut a circle of patterned paper big enough to frame it nicely. I used my die cutter but you could just draw around a glass and cut it out with scissors.

Attach the circle to black card and cut a slightly bigger circle to frame it. Stick the circle to the card base and stick the embellishment on. Use extra glue dots if the glue on the back of the embellishment doesn't look sticky enough.

Each of the stickers has actually got a tiny sentiment printed on it, but they didn't show up very well so I added in the Merry Christmas banner on black card, stamped in white chalk ink, and attached it using dimensional fixers.

I think this is my favourite card so far - clean and simple and very festive.

25 cards of Christmas - Day 3 - Winter wishes squares

Day 3's card is another quick make and is a good one to use up scraps of patterned paper left over from other projects. You could use wrapping paper instead if you like.

Cut small squares from the patterned paper and stick straight onto the card base. Try to get them evenly spaced.

Cut an oval (or any other shape you like) from gold card, stamp a sentiment onto red card in white ink - I used Versamark chalk ink - and cut out a smaller oval, then stick the red on to the gold. Fix the sentiment to the card with dimensional fixers and you're finished.

25 cards of Christmas - Day 2 - Simple heart

A nice simple card for day 2 using a wooden heart embellishment I got in a pack of 6 from The Works. (You'll be seeing more of these later in the series.)

Start with a strip of red card just a bit shorter than the width of your card. Write a sentiment on it with a white gel pen (or stamp one if you prefer) then add dashed lines along the top and bottom edges. I was going for a rustic handmade look for this, hence you get to see my not so stylish handwriting!

Stick the strip of card onto the base then use glue dots to attach the reindeer heart and you're done. A very simple five minute card.

25 cards of Christmas - Day 1 - Washi tape tree

I've decided to try a series of posts and what better than to start with Christmas cards? I really started card making last January because I wanted to make a stock of cards for this Christmas

So on to the cards...

A very simple and child-friendly one to start. I saw this design on The Frugal Crafter's YouTube channel and decided to give it a go.

Start with a red card base, tear white paper to fit on the base and stick down. Cut a strip of brown paper to make the tree trunk and stick down.

Use Christmassy washi tape to add the branches and top with a star punched out of glittery paper.

It takes about 5 minutes to put together and it's great to do with kids - I've done it with my Brownies and they all enjoyed it (and there wasn't too much mess to tidy up afterwards!).