Rudolph Day Challenge #April 2022

My cards are made, so I am writing this almost a month early, because next month I will be visiting family in UK. I go next Friday (29th March), for five weeks. Although I will have wifi access most places I go, I am so used to posting on my PC and my fat fingers are not nimble enough to write a good post on my phone. So I will schedule this for 25th April, and then I will just have to link it up on the day.

I have spent quite a bit of time lately, looking at cards on the internet and taking inspiration from them. A lady on my Silhouette Cameo group, recently posted a cutting file to make this three diamond edge card. But when I took a proper look I decided I could do it just as easily with my large paper cutter so that is what I did. 

For the first one I used a snippet of paper I found in my box. I thought it was from an old Joanna Sheen CD and eventually I found it so I was able to enlarge one motif a little for the central topper, and cut two for the side diamonds. I cut a cream base card. It was a bit of a fiddle to make sure I had the three diamonds correctly positioned.  I used gold peel-offs on the diamonds and gold glitter glue around the topper star.

I found a lot of suitable paper offcuts so I had another go, this time using a stamped image for the topper, coloured with copic markers. I used an ivory base card, two toning DPs, and added red perfect pearls to the stamped berries, and red gems on the diamonds.

Then I found a topper of a robin that I made a while ago, using an image from a card I received. It was a good size for this card so I made one more. This time I made the base card from dark red, and added an ivory mat with some snippets of holly paper. I die-cut a sentiment from the red card for the centre diamond and highlighted all the berries with glitter glue.

So there we have it, another set of three useful cards added to my box. So I will link this up with Rudolph Day Challenge #April over at https://scrapsoflifebyscrappymo.blogspot.com/2022/04/april-rudolph-days-challenge.html.

Sorry I cannot link properly as I am using a new tablet that I have not learned the ins and outs of yet.