Christmas card with Helz Cuppleditch Christmas decoupage

Hi everyone

It is Boxing Day (December 26th) here in Australia and there are the usual manic sales with people swarming the shops in search of a bargain.  You won't find me there - I would rather stay home and sleep-in, play with my Christmas presents and just have a quiet and relaxing day recharging my batteries.  Never really understood the appeal of getting up early on Boxing Day and fighting for a car parking spot and then getting pushed and shoved by shoppers all worked up in a frenzy  and queuing up at the cash registers.  That gets a big NOPE from me!   Shops have sales during the year anyway so it's not like you can't ever get anything on sale......anyhoo.......

Today I am sharing a Christmas card that I made for my daughter.  I have made a few cards that I will share over coming days but couldn't share them before Christmas or it would spoil the surprise.

I have been a really big fan of Helz Cuppleditch's Christmas images for many years now and follow her on Facebook.  Helz really knows how to create such adorable Christmas and non-Christmas scenes and characters and I look forward to her collections every year.  I also love to do 3D decoupage (or papertole as some call it in Australia) and find it very relaxing.

The Helz Cuppleditch collection I am using for this card is 'The Night Before Christmas' and is a few years old.  The designer paper came free with a UK magazine and the decoupage images, I bought from EBay in the UK during 2018.

I am also popping this card into the following Challenges (click on the underlined words/links which will take you directly to the Challenge):

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge 417 which is 'Anything Goes' (as long as it's Christmas) and the optional theme is to use the word 'Christmas'.

Winter Wonderland Challenge Blog - End of Year Anything Goes

Splitcoaststampers - Free for All Friday F4A460 - Holiday Card Show Off 2018 which is to show off your Christmas, Hanukkah, Winter or Holiday cards.

I went to photograph the card using my camera but the batteries died after one photo and there was NO WAY I was going up to the shops on Christmas Eve for batteries - so I went back inside the house and grabbed my mobile phone and a strong breeze suddenly sprung up and I couldn't photograph it where I usually do on top of my decking post or it would have blown my card away.  So I had to settle for the table on my decking which doesn't have direct sunlight which means my photo is a little dull.  Oh well!

The decoupage images came already diecut so it was easy to just pop out the pieces and put them together using dimensionals.

The snowflake paper is from the matching Trimcraft paper pack and the red layer is by TPC Studio Christmas Cheer Ribbon Candy Stripe which I bought from Riot Art and Craft on clearance.  I trimmed the red layer to 1/16" using my Perfect Layers Tools.  I layered it onto some buttercream cardstock and trimmed it to 1/8".

I had a bunch of snowflakes that I diecut from silver glitter cardstock a while ago ready to use on my Christmas cards (sorry, I don't know which dies I used) and glued them on using Tombow Mono Aqua glue then added Kaisercraft silver rhinestones to the centres.

I added some light blue organza ribbon in two separate elements and the bow itself was made using my Bow Easy.  The bow was glued using Helmar 450 Quick Dry adhesive.  I am really loving this glue lately as it is similar to Fabric glue but it dries much faster.  I couldn't figure out where to add a sentiment so decided to leave it off.  Lastly, I glued my card front onto a cream cardstock base using Tombow Mono Multi glue.

The image came already glittered but unfortunately you can't see it in the photo - however, it does look very pretty in real life.

Finished card size is 5-1/2" x 5-1/2".

Thanks for stopping by!

Jocelyn


Card Recipe:

Stamps and Ink:  None

Designer Paper:  Trimcraft - Helz Cuppleditch - 'Night Before Christmas' 8" x 8" paper pad, TPC Studio - Christmas Cheer Ribbon Candy Stripe 12" x 12"

Accessories:  Trimcraft - Helz Cuppleditch - 'Night Before Christmas' (2015) diecut decoupage, Big Shot, various brands of snowflake dies, dimensionals, Kaisercraft silver rhinestones, cardstock - buttercream, silver glitter and cream card base, Kokuyo tape runner, Tombow Mono Multi glue, Tombow Mono Aqua blue, Helmar 450 Quick Dry adhesive, Perfect Layers Tools, Fuzzy Moon Festive Fun organza ribbon, Bow Easy