Christmas market from Craft Consortium

Sorry, I've been MIA lately but Ive been jet-setting off to my daughter in Australia, catching up with friends near Perth and popping into Singapore on the way. We left before the summer here in the UK had even started. We experienced hot and humid weather in Singapore, coooold wintry weather in Melbourne (down to minus two or three), and then pleasant sunny cardigan temperatures in Western Australia. Along the way, we missed a mini heat wave in the UK too. Still, it was all worth it!

Back to my craft table where the new Collection from Craft Consortium was waiting for me. This is another collaboration with Helz Cuppleditch and her whimsical designs never fail to delight us all. 

Here are three card designs that I rushed to complete for the launch last week.

                            

As soon as I saw the multi-image page in the 6 x6 pad, I knew what project was top of my list - this block card. I matted the images with some of the new pink Mirri card too! It really is gorgeous!  There are several colours now and I think this pink and possibly the deep blue are my present favorites,

I really love the font of the Merry Christmas stamp here. There are 2 photopolymer stamp sets in the collection and lovely big images that you can colour easily. I chose to fussy-cut around those crazy letters; because there are no straight lines with this font, fussy-cutting is easy! I never thought I would be saying that! 

     

A new addition to the 12 x 12 paper pads are larger multi-image pages. Traditionally, we have had  

4" x 4" cut-apart images, 9 to a page, but now there are also 6" x 6" ones that are perfect to trim to size for 6" cards. You could simply add one to the front of a card and "Job's a good 'un!".  Obviously, I wanted to do a little more that for a Design Team project! 

My second card is a corner fold card; I used one of the 6x6 panels inside and chose one with a focal point in the bottom left corner. I the used a 2 x 2 panel in the 6 x 6 paper pad for the corner fold on the top and cut panel strips from a page in the large paper pad.  It would be very quick and easy to make lots of these for Christmas, too. 

                                            

My third project is a split-stepper card. This is another very straightforward card to make. I cut around the houses and made each side of the street mirror the other and fit my card panels. The main card is decorated with chunky images from the ephemera pack and also words trimmed from a "wordy sheet" that I raised with dimensional foam pads to be a similar height as the ephemera, I was going to add a large "Happy Christmas" die cut suspended from the corner joint but decided it would mask too many little additions. 

All of these have plenty of room to write on the reverse too. 

Hope you like them. See you soon,

If you would like more inspiration with this collection, pop over to the Craft Consortium Official Network Facebook page where all the DT members are sharing their projects.

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Lesley

Christmas Market Collection is available Online from Craft Consortium Ltd  shop