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Five Days of Christmas Card Styles – #5: Shutter Cards

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On this last day of my Five Days of Christmas Card Styles, I’m sharing the shutter card. This is a simpler variation of the tri-shutter card, of which I’ve made several variations in previous blog posts, here, here, here and here.

I always find any iteration of this shutter type card fun to make, because you can use your 6×6″ papers in endless variations, cutting them to size and combining them continuingly.

For this stack, I used the following materials:

  • Moda Scrap Christmas Holidays 6×6″ pad
  • My Mind’s Eye All is Bright stickersheet
  • Studiolight Shabby Chic Christmas diecut/punch-out sheet
  • several dies and stamps
  • embossing folder
  • Stickles glitter glue
  • other ephemera
  • For the last card also: My Mind’s Eye All is Bright papers and brads

 

Five Days of Christmas Card Styles – #4: Cards With Flaps (Easy to Make!)

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The fourth of my five Christmas card styles concerns Cards with Flaps. This is one of the easiest cards to make while still adding some sophistication and uniqueness in comparison to regular cards.

All flaps are based on ATC card measurements (3×4″ and 4×6″), so they are perfect if you have a lot of pocket journalling cards to use up!

I used the same materials as I did with the Luxurious style (#1), a couple of blog posts ago:

  • Bo Bunny Altitude collection: 12×12″ papers, diecuts, 3D chipboard stickers, buttons, filmstrip sticker
  • Liquid snow
  • Stickles glitter glue
  • several dies and stamps
  • embossing folder

 

Five Days of Christmas Card Styles – #3: Multiple Collections, Small Labels & Cutting Corners

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Today it’s time for my Christmas card style #3: Multiple Collections, Small Labels & Cutting Corners! 

Materials used:

  • Studio Light Vintage Line Christmas papers
  • Studio Light Vintage Line Christmas diecuts/punch-outs
  • Cartabella Christmas Day 6×6″ paperpad
  • Craft Sensations Classic Vintage 6×6 paperpad
  • Tilda Winterbird paper collection & cards
  • Stickles glitter glue
  • several dies and stamps
  • dimensional tape
  • some small flowers & ephemera from my stash

 

Five Days of Christmas Card Styles – #2: Shabby Chic Layering

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Today I’m sharing the second of my Christmas card styles: Shabby Chic Layering! 

Materials used:

  • Studio Light Sweet Winter Season paper collection
  • Studio Light Sweet Winter Season diecuts/punch-outs
  • Creator’s Image Studio Vintage Notelet cutapart labels
  • Stickles glitter glue
  • dimensional tape
  • several dies and stamps
  • embossing folder
  • some small ephemera from my stash

Btw, the title in the video states it’s #3, but it’s not of course. My bad. Just ignore it and blame the Christmas spirit (or something).

 

Five Days of Christmas Card Styles – #1: Luxurious

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The coming week I’m sharing five days of Christmas cards with you all! 🙂 Starting today, with style #1: Luxurious. 

Materials used:

  • Bo Bunny Altitude 12×12″ papers
  • Bo Bunny Altitude ephemera: 3D chipboard stickers, buttons, filmstrip sticker
  • Large flower by Prima Marketing (Santa Baby collection)
  • two decorative dies
  • embossing folder
  • some small ephemera from my stash

 

Some Photo Embellishment Tips

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A short while ago I designed what I called the Easiest Mini Albums Ever Made. Today I’m showing you two more iterations of this kind of wire-bound album, filled with pictures, to demonstrate how you can easily embellish your pictures with some punches, dies and glitter glue.

This way it’s even more fun to peruse your little mini albums again and again, and though it might take you some time, it’s really very easy to do 🙂

 

Stamping a sentiment (stamp by Kaisercraft) on top of the picture! Use ink for non-porous surfaces for this.
Punches come in all kinds of fun shapes and sizes and are a great way to add interest!

Hiding a bystander with some die-cuts helps pulling the focus to the main subject of your picture.

Using a little glitter glue here and there helps to add that little Something Extra!

Two different examples of embellishing the same picture 🙂

 

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