Make one Christmas card a week Challenge

Make one Christmas card a week challenge

It was a sad week this week as my favourite group on Facebook closed. The make one Christmas card a week group was run by three (or more) admins and there was a few thousand members (shows how popular card making is!!). They released a statement this week to say that due to personal circumstances they were closing the group on Facebook. 

However, I love the challenge so I'm going to keep going with it on Instagram

The admins set a theme for every week at the beginning of the year (which I thankfully printed off) and so got you to make 52 cards ready for Christmas (always best to be prepared for Christmas when you're a crafter haha!! I'm using #makeonechristmascardaweek2019 on instagram

We are currently on week 8 and this week is "sentiments take centre stage" so I had an idea in my head throughout the week. I was speaking with a colleague who uses a cricut this week and I had fell out of love with mine. So I decided to try and give it another go this time for a poinsettia to go on my card (perfect Christmas flower!)

I used a plain background from a paper pack I had and was going to use a merry Christmas paper with a die cut merry Christmas on top but it looked too busy so just put plain paper in the background.

Christmas cards need a bit of glitter - friends mum always puts glitter inside the card too so it's lucky she has recognisable hand written and you're prepared! However I really don't like the red glitter card I've used - I like the colour but the bits keep coming off and make the card look messy! The blue glitter for the sentiment peeled a bit too - maybe I need to invest in better quality card!!

I added the cricut ponisettia and curled the card a bit to make it look more real.....and this is the result.

Next week is bringing home the tree/ gathering the festive foliage so time to get thinking cap on!