D.l Three Ouick and Easy Christmas CardsCompleted by Pamela Horton The whispering Platypus

3 Cute easy quick Christmas Cards. I photographed them together, as I couldn't decide which was the primary card. I printed the sheet off twice, onto gloss 200gsm card, so that I had 2 copies of each one. Then using, the Santa copy only, I copied it onto ivory pearl finished paper.

To complete this card, I cut away the green backing sheet and made my own from green, 18 x 8.5cm. I used padded tape to attach the ivory printed copy onto this green backing sheet. I used gold glitter narrow peel off strips on the 4 sides and then attached the ribbon across the front lower edge with double sided tape. I cut out the green door shape, and attached it with padded tape. From the second gloss copy, I carefully cut around the Santa, and attached it with the same padded tape. I made a white card, 18cm wide and 19cm high, and attached the completed topper to the front of this card with padded tape. I used a peel off sentiment to complete the card

The next card I made is the cute reindeer. I printed the copy of this topper onto the same ivory pearl card, and used just the doorway. This gave the doorway an almost iridescent appearance. I kept the blue backing, and used the topper as the background of the card.I wrapped the ribbon around this part of the card, about one third down from the top of the blue edging, and I tied a bow on the right hand side.

From the second gloss copy of the reindeer I carefully cut out his shape and added the sentiment to his stomach area. I then attached him using padded tape. I attached silver star peel off strips to all blue edges. and finally attached the completed topper to an apple green card 18cm wide by 19cm high, using padded tape. The apple green helps draw your eye to the cute Christmas scarf the reindeer is wearing.

The 3 Christmas Bells card was my next project. I printed off a copy of the bells topper sheet, onto a matte 200gsm card , and carefully cut out the doorway to use as a backing sheet for the bells. I used the first gloss copy of the bells topper, and wrapped a ribbon around the main first copy of the gloss topper, at the top of the doorway with double sided tape and tied a bow on the left hand side near the flower and then attached this to the main card, which is a deep leaf green 18cm wide and 18.5 high. I then used holly and berry tiny peel off strips, which I had coloured with alcohol pens, and placed them on all 4 red edges. I used padded tape to attach this gloss topper, then using the same tape attached the matte green door in position. Using the second gloss copy,I then carefully cut out the bells, keeping the poinsettias intact. I used padded double sided tape to attach the bells to the matte green door. I used a gold glitter peel off sentiment. Which completed the card.

What a treat, 3 cards all completed and all cute and quite different. Thank you Ceredwyn and a big Hug

Pamela Horton