Once again, inspired by Kristina Werner's circle cards: see example here. I don't have any special circle cutters, so I improvised by folding a piece of cardstock in half, then using a circle compass (from the geometry set I used during secondary school Mathematics!) to draw an almost-circle - leaving a 'hinge' at the folded part of the card.

Kristina uses such beautiful round dies to cut out lace backgrounds and such, but I improvised by using the snowflake kirigami technique to cut a circular pattern out of tissue paper, and pasted it on. I then built layers using tracing paper, old catalogue paper, and sentiments cut from a Paperchase Christmas wrapping paper.

Merry Christmas

A Christmas card inspired by Kristina Werner's Washi Tape Christmas Tree. Since washi tape is pretty out of my budget, I used leftover strips of green paper and tore them carefully to create the jagged edge effect, before giving each strip a light coat of Pentel Silver Poster Colour for shimmer effect. I glued a piece of white string down and arranged the green strips over it, adhering them using foam adhesive. The presents were cut out from random scraps and wrapped with string.

For the sentiment, I'd actually bought a beautiful gold-on-kraft wrapping paper with framed Christmas sentiments all over it from Paperchase, picked one of the sentiments and cut it out, putting it on a brown cardstock background and pasting it on. The tree was decorated using a gold star and fuchsia sequins, and glitter glue.