DCM - Christmas in July

Morning all!

Well, Dawn has finally unleashed the festive spirit over on the Daring Cardmakers blog, because it's time for a Christmas in July challenge!

I know making festive projects in the middle of summer isn't for everyone up here in the Northern Hemisphere, but needs must.

And despite me setting myself the goal of making 1 Christmas card per week to keep on top of my Christmas card list, I fell badly behind over the Spring and have had some serious catching up to do over the summer months, so I brought out the big guns!

That's right, a tried-and-tested design that I could also use to make a dent in my rather vintage Crate Paper festive patterned paper collection.

Paper: Crate Paper - Bundled Up (r)
Stamps: Flora & Fauna - Holiday Word Party (r), Hello Bluebird - Typed Christmas, SugarPea Designs - You're My Type (r)
Dies: SugarPea Designs - You're My Type (r), The Greetery - Sentiment Suite Basics, MFT - Tall Snow Globe (r), Neat & Tangled - Skinny Strips (r)

Fair warning, most of the supplies for this project are now discontinued, but I love using these supplies every year.

I started out by sorting through my bag of Colour Crush cardstock scraps from The Stamp Market and pulling out shades that would work for festive cards to cut with the You're My Type dies from SugarPea Designs.

Then over the course of a few evenings I prepared all the elements I'd need to make close to 20 cards.

• Step 1: cutting all the typewriter elements
• Step 2: assembling the typewriters minus the paper
• Step 3: stamping the "Dear Santa" and "Just a note" text on the inserts and attaching them
• Step 4: cutting all the vellum and brown cardstock pieces with the MFT Tall Snowglobe dies
• Step 5: stamping Flora & Fauna's Holiday Word Party (merry christmas) and Hello Bluebird Typed Christmas (bring on the merry) sentiments on sentiment banners from The Greetery and Neat & Tangled respectively
• Step 6: creating the finished typewriter snow globes ready to stick on the card front

Once all those steps were done, it was just a matter of creating the card bases with a mix of 6x6 and 12x12 papers from the Bundled Up collection that Crate Paper released in 2013. This step only took an afternoon into the early evening. And it was time well spent on this project.

The cards are all relatively flat and can be easily posted, which is always a plus!

So I'm now back on target with my Christmas cards - well, until I inevitably fall behind again, that is!

Make sure you check out the wonderfully festive projects from the rest of the design team here, and play along if you can!

Happy crafting!

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Flora & Fauna - Holiday Word Party stamps (r) Shop at: MISC	Hello Bluebird - Typed Christmas stamps Shop at: MISC	SugarPea Designs - You're My Type stamps (r) Shop at: MISC	SugarPea Designs - You're My Type dies (r) Shop at: MISC
The Greetery - Sentiment Suite Basics dies Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG	MFT - Tall Snow Globe dies (r) Shop at: MISC	Neat & Tangled - Skinny Strips dies (r) Shop at: MISC	Versafine - Onyx Black ink pad Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC | SHC (UK)
Lawn Fawn - Vellum Shop at: SBC | SHC (UK)	Tombow - Mono-Multi liquid glue Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH	Lawn Fawn - Stamp shammy cleaner Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC (UK)	MISTI stamping tool Shop at: EH | SBC
Sizzix - Big Shot machine Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC	Sizzix - Sidekick machine Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC	Thermoweb iCraft - Purple tape for die-cutting - 1 1/2" Shop at: AZ (UK)	Tim Holtz - Tonic guillotine trimmer (maxi) Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC
Tim Holtz - Tonic guillotine trimmer (small) Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC

Comments

[Dawn Barwick]

I love the type writer inside the snow globe. So fun for Christmas. xxx