Rudolph Day 2022 #January

Well here we are at the start of a new year and it's time to start making Christmas cards again. My January offering is usually  a set of cards made using small images, etc from the cards I received for Christmas, but this year I did not find much inspiration from them.

However I did receive a card from one of my sisters that featured three baubles depicting Nativity scenes, on a plain dark blue background, and I decided to case this and make it my own.

I made copies of the baubles, resizing them to fit one from a set of plain circle dies. Then I cut gold card hanging pieces using a tiny die from a set of ornaments by Creative Expressions. The green foliage is from an old Tim Holtz set using several snippets of green card. The hanging chains are peel offs.

I printed the baubles on photographic paper to give them some shine. The background paper panels are from an 8 x 8 paper pad called Christmas Shades collection  designed by John Lockwood for Creative Expressions. These papers are so pretty. I have used a lot of them but I managed to find enough pieces to cut five panels, but now I need to replace it.

Last night I assembled the first card to use on this post, and I also cut all the elements to make four more, all identical except that two have gold backgrounds. This afternoon I will assemble the rest in the same way and that will be a nice set of five cards to start off my new stash.

So I will link up with the January Rudolph day Challenge at Scraps of life by Scrappy Mo:

Snippets Playground Challenge #420

And also Peace on Earth Challenge #8 (this is a bi-monthly Anything Goes Christmas challenge.)