Rudolph Day Challenge #September 2019

My word, this month has gone in a flash, partly because I spent much of it in UK helping with a family crisis. Fortunately my next set of Christmas cards were made before I went, as I only came home yesterday.

For my card I am sort of CASING a card made by Liz for the challenge last month. I liked its simplicity. You can see her card HERE. She made hers  by recycling a card she had received, so I started from scratch, by looking for suitable clip art on line of Mary and Joseph, and playing with it in a graphics program. The Bethlehem scene is a very old Woodware stamp which I stamped then scanned and resized. Next I arranged the two for my topper and printed it out several times. I added minimal colour using copic markers and cut it out with a variety of dies. 

Then I used border dies to make a decorative edge either down the side or along the lower edge and mounted each design onto a suitable base card. In some cases the edge is cut in the large topper so the base card shows through, some are cut into the base card and backed with mirri-card.

Each design was either distressed around the edge with a DI pad, or mounted on a cut frame before being added to the card.

I found the words to the favourite Christmas song "Little Donkey" and combined words from each verse to make a suitable short poem which I printed and mounted to suit the main image in each case.

There is a little glitter glue added to each card, on the roofs in Bethlehem, and on most of the cut edges. I do like a little bit of bling on Christmas cards.

Here are some of my designs.

Altogether I made twelve cards, eight portrait and four landscape.

So now I will head over to Scraps of life by Scrappymo and link my post, and then I had better unpack some cases!