QUICK CHRISTMAS CARD TOPPER

Need a handmade card in a hurry? Try this quick and easy tag or topper idea.

Take a manilla tag or bookmark (or cut a piece of card, fold in half and round the top with scissors).

Stamp a quick background (I used Stampington's C8418 cube and stamped the Fleur De Lis in Memories black ink and the script in Memories Crimson ink).

Tear a strip of vintage sheet music (try your local charity shop). I used the Fiskars tearing ruler for a nice deckle edge. Stick on with glue stick, sticky dots or dry liner tape THEN trim at top and bottom (it's much easier!)

Find a suitably seasonal image: mine is a copyright-free photograph which I printed out. Trim to size and edge the pic with Tim Holtz's Distress ink in Black Soot, blending with a cottonwool bud. Mount with eyelets.

You can do a whole production line this way: stamp all the tags first, then tear all the sheet music and layer on. Go back and trim the music, then distress and add the photos.

Now it's your choice: punch a hole at the top to turn into a bookmark, or add to the front of a card or little notebook.

Project & artwork copyright Susie Jefferson 2008

Monoprinting Cards by Freyja

Freyja who gives regular classes at Blade Rubber on Saturdays has emailed these lovely cards made using Monoprint technique.