Three Kings

I’m continuing my mission to make a few Christmas cards for my last blog post of each month.  Today, I’m using an Apple Blossom die set that I got for an absolute bargain in the Craft Stash New Year sale.

For my first card, I envisaged a stained-glass window.  To begin, I die-cut the image, and then used a piece of Glad Press ‘n’ Seal to collect all the tiny pieces and hold in place to make it easier to colour in.

Next, I used a variety of pens to add colour to each piece.

I die-cut the piece from black card and adhered some Stix 2 Anything’s double-sided adhesive sheet to the back.  The coloured pieces were inlaid into the die-cut.  I do love a jigsaw!!

To make the panel more window like, I attached a piece of acetate over the top before die-cutting another panel to adhere over the acetate.  The panel was then simply mounted on a white square card blank.

This all turned out to be rather labour intensive!  I thought I’d try out a quicker version and used both dies to cut the panel from gold foil card.  This was then adhered to a square of white card, layered onto more gold card and mounted on a white card blank.  Simple but effective.

This last one was made because I couldn’t bear to throw away all the gold pieces from the previous card!  I die-cut the panel from black card and again adhered a self-adhesive sheet to the back and ‘jigsawed’ the pieces into the relevant places.  This was mounted on gold card and then onto a black card blank.

Three more to add to my collection.