Late to the Christmas party

Sorry, friends, I'm late for Rudolph Day this month - mind you I do have a good excuse!

We've just had a really lovely few days away in Dorset, you can read all about it (and see his wonderful photos) over on Mark's blog but just to whet your appetite, here's a picture of the view from our hotel bedroom window.

Anyway, I'm home now and crafting again, and once again I've been using some of the gorgeous products from the new Christmas ranges that Hunkydory sent me to review.  The products are now available on their site, along with lots of inspiration photos.

First of all I made a card using the Winter Warmers range.

I folded A4 white card into an A5 landscape orientation card and cut away all but the top 2cm of the front, and replaced it with a piece of figured acetate (it actually has a lovely sparkle that doesn't show in the photo) from my stash. I carefully cut the border from a sheet of poinsettia card and used it to cover the upper edge of the card, and trimmed the snowflake-patterned remaining part of the sheet to line the inside of the card, matting it onto gold mirri. A topper and sentiment from the poinsettia topper sheet complete the card.

I am sharing this with
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge - Snowflake or anything goes.
Rudolph Day at Scrappymo's

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Next up, a card made using the  1st Little Square Book of Christmas

The outside is very simple - one page from the book matted onto deep burgundy card. Inside I've used the same burgundy card to create a pop-up insert. I cut the archway from four more sheets of the image and used 3-d adhesive to build up the layers. Then I cut out the Holy Family and the sky from one of the sheets and attached it to the pop up. I used the remaining images to make decoupage layers, removing a thin strip from the bottom of each so as not to prevent the card from folding at the hinge, and built up the layers with 3-d adhesive.
Finally I added a simple stamped sentiment layered with teal and cream.
Naturally because of all the decoupage, the card doesn't fold completely flat when closed but I love the combination of pop up and decoupage so much that it makes up for it!

I am sharing this card with

52 Christmas Card Throwdown - Pop up
Watercooler Wednesday - All about occasions 

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Finally, the Wonderful Wintertime collection and I chose a Santa and reindeer image to make one of my favourite card folds, a double easel with diagonal card.

All that silver on the card is glitzy enough but I added extra sparkle with some gems.

I'm sharing this with

Jingle Belles - Snow Much Fun 
Christmas Kickstart - Glitter, Sparkle and Shine 
Just us Girls - Fancy Fold 

Disclaimer - the Christmas products were supplied by Hunkydory Crafts for me to review, all other products used and all card designs are my own.