Thursday [12 to 14]

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14. Thursday Special … Isilme’s Christmas Cards

I’ve been busy making Christmas decorations. Some you’ve already seen, but I think there are a few you haven’t.

Firstly, I tried to make the big star/snowflake decoration out of cardboard, thinking it might be easier to do than the fun foam. Sadly it was not to be. I had to resort to stapling it together because the glue wasn’t strong enough. I was trying to avoid using a glue gun….which is hiding somewhere in the craft room (which is a bit like the Bermuda Triangle at the moment).

The star decorations turned out really well. Easy even for children to make. Lovely for the Christmas tree. I may well make more of these!

I also made a cracker. I have a metal cutting die for that (I have a large and a small size). I didn’t decorate it yet because I just wanted to see what space I had for gifts inside. I usually make crackers every year and the gift inside is part of their Christmas gift rather than some silly plastic thing you’d never use. So I get lip balm, small pens, jewellery, keyrings – that sort of thing.

I made several Christmas cards but have sent most of them off now and I didn’t take photos. I made backgrounds using my gelli plate printing. No doubt I’ll make some more given a bit of time as I have some backgrounds left to use. However, I do have one card to show. I had cut a large snowflake out of silver, glittery card and suddenly realised I could make another Christmas card out of what was left. So I cut the glittery card to size.

Then I took blue card and stamped a large snowflake on to it with white paint. Happily the snowflake cut-out and the rubber stamp were almost the same size, so when I stuck the blue paper behind the aperture, it showed the stamped snowflake beautifully.