A Giraffe for Christmas

Not a real one, but a very cute one on Christmas cards. I love this image, as it is so adorable and also not one of those typical Christmas images that can be seen anywhere.

For the cards below I used the the Christmas Giraffe stamp from Little Claire, dies from QuicKutz, Marianne D and Spellbinders, ProMarkers and papers from the Dovecraft Let it Snow paper pack. The centres of the poinsettias in the first card are small drops of Liquid Pearls in gold. The second card is embellished with adhesive pearls. The 'essentials' were textured cardstock in various colours, white Southfield linen card and white glass smooth card (200gsm) from Southfield as well as a black Memento ink pad.

Matilda

After coming home from a workshop at the Edinburgh Book Festival I fancied a play with some of my dies.

I created the card below with textured cardstock in a variety of colours. I used the Matilda's Hat die from Little Claire, the Marianne D designer doily die, a QuicKutz 4"x 4" die for the flourishes and QuicKutz 2" x 2" dies for the flowers. For the centres of the flowers I chose card candy.