The first Christmas cards of 2014!

My mad dash panic to finish Christmas cards last year really took the pleasure out of my makes last year and I was determined not to have the same experience in 2014! I also wanted to recycle some of the cards we had been sent last year into new designs. This card really lent itself to recycling.

I cut up the card into the separate panels and mounted each one onto black matting to highlight the colour scheme.

 

I wanted to reflect the rustic nature of the photos in my designs, while keeping the main red, black and neutral colour scheme. I paired the pictures with papers from two different Marianne design collections reflecting a Scandinavian theme and some wood plank designs and some similar Nordic Do Crafts papers.
I added some felt and wooden snowflakes and hearts, a variety of sentiment stamps, including one from Penny Black, some ribbons, some ready made metal sentiments that I have had in my stash since I started crafting and some Memory Box die cut Precious Snowflakes.
 

So my first 8 cards are made and I am fairly pleased with the results here.

I have already started die cutting for my next batch, this time all of the same design.

Elaine