When I design cards for PaperCraft Inspirations I have to use products that are currently available, so I’m getting in new stash all the time, but I can never bear to throw anything away, even scraps of beautiful papers, so my stash is growing and growing. I was sorting out my scraps the other day and decided I would make a real effort to use some of them up, so I started thinking about Christmas cards that would use the scraps. These two are a start, and I’ve used lots of different papers for the little bird decorations, made with a leaf punch and a little judicious trimming of the stalk to make a beak. I was quite pleased with them , they look fun, especially the ones with the gem eyes. They are quite quick to make, and I punched out loads of them. I find it’s quite relaxing and relatively quick to make a batch of cards to one design if I’ve prepared everthing in bulk first. The great thing about something using scraps like this is that each card can be slightly individual but it’s still much quicker than making lots of different card designs. I expect when I come to mass produce these the tree will get simplified to a simple triangle, which will still work well. But I couldn’t resist making a proper job of the trial runs!
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