Another Joyful Rudolph day.

Well last month's cards for this challenge featured the word Joy and so do this month's, but I guess it is a good thing to wish for people. Whatever the state of the world, there is some joy to be found in it if we truly look.

I am posting this early because I am off on holiday for 12 days, and I will be staying in a house with no wi-fi, so there won't be much computer activity from me. I will schedule it to post on the right day and hopefully I will be able to link it up on my phone.

I have a 'To do...' list as long as my arm before I leave, so I needed a card that was fairly quick and easy to do, so again I turned to my Silhouette cameo library for a cutting file to use. I chose this filigree star with the word Joy in the centre.

I cut the top layer from white pearlised heavy paper. I like this paper which has a gold sheen on it in some lights, and it is fibre-free so it cuts well. I found that if I resized it to fit a 12cm card, I could just fit two on each A4 page.

For the next layer I raided my snippets drawer and found four pieces of beige/gold sheen card, and two of yellow-gold heavy parchment, and cut the six squares, and six circles with the word Joy cut out,  for the centres.

Then I made six base cards from 240gsm white card and glued it all together.

I am not brilliant with the clean and simple look and am always tempted to add stars etc to the white spaces, but hubby said leave them as they are, and for once I did.

So six more cards in my stash means I can at least write enough to take to UK with me to save on the postage. When I get back I will need to make some more quickies, for my local friends.

Now I will link this up to Scraps of Life by scrappymo, ready for the Rudolph Day Challenge on the 25th October and hope I can do it properly when that date comes around.