Quilts and Cards: Early start to Christmas Cards

Saturday, August 28, 2021

Early start to Christmas Cards

Since we are back in lockdown keeping safe from Covid, I decided to start making Christmas Cards.

I bought some card designs from Dreaming Tree and am loving the ease with which they go together.

The blue one was the first I made. It has 4 layers. For the cream one, I embossed the cream layer with a plaid embossing folder after cutting and I really liked the extra dimension it gave.

Now I need to make the other designs that I bought!

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Favourite Tips

If you need a brad of a particular colour and don't have one, check to see if you have some embossing powder of the colour you want . Rub embossing ink on the top of the brad, then dip it into the embossing powder then heat set it. Use tweezers or a clip peg to hold the brad while you heat it.
When you are stitching on cards, make sure you are not sewing over the top of DS tape! The needle gets gummed up and won't lock the threads underneath.
Use zip lock plastic envelopes for smaller pieces of card offcuts that accumulate when making cards. Have one envelope per colour and periodically go through and trim up so they are ready for use on another card.