One last Christmas card

I found this clip art Santa Claus and I just had to turn him into a 3d découpage, as he is so cheery looking. I made it a very simple card, as it didn't need any embellishment

My first pyramid cards.

I could never see the point of them but I was a little bored yesterday and decided to try them. I used Publisher for the images and to save ink I put a white box on every image to save ink. If you do this you have to make sure the smaller images are slightly bigger than the white box so it covers it properly and no white shows. Now I am hooked. There are no sentiments yet because I can't find them.

Christmas card with new teabag fold

Here is a simple little card with a new fold from Lucy called Andy's fold. It is a lot easier than it looks and is particularly nice with a snowflake paper. Once again I was being thrifty, the card was a freebie, the blue metallic card was a scrap and the sparkly snowflakes were lying around. The teabag paper is one of my own designs.

Cardmaking

As well as cross stitch designing I like to make greeting cards and yesterday I made a few. One set were made from an idea in a magazine which used old buttons to make Christmas trees. This was such a good idea because we have a button box that is full to bursting with old buttons, many of which came from granny's house and many which mum gathered over the years. The cards used were free with a magazine at one time and all the other card used has been in the house for years.