A Very British Christmas Card - Festive Blog Hop

Welcome to the Sizzix Festive Blog Hop - for one day only! It's great to be a part of it! Firstly because it's the first time the European and US bloggers have come together for an event like this, and secondly because it's the countdown to Christmas!

Here's the line up for the day, make sure you check them all out to get some truly festive inspiration...

Tammy Tutterow

Paula Pascual

Amy Friend

Elina Strömberg 

Anna-Karin Evaldsson 

Loredana Bucaria

Gretchen Schmidt

Hilary Kanwischer 

Jan Hobbins 

Jeanne Streiff 

Tammy Roberts
Tiffany Johnson  

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This 2012 has been a beautiful year for Britain, with the diamond Jubilee and the Olympics. It has been a pleasure to be living in the UK and be able to participate in these events. It seems fitting to make some of my Christmas cards to fit withe Britannia theme, and what better to do that with that using the Union Jack die.

I took a landscape Fabriano folded card, a beautiful handmade Italian paper, which is my preferred card for my Christmas cards as well as for the wedding stationery I have done in the past. I place the cover facing down on to the Bigz die and secure it in place with low tack tape.

This is how it looks. I love the tone on tone effect, but today I wanted something more in the colours of the season.

Then , I made an insert out of patterned paper. All the papers I used for this card are from Basic Grey's Aspen Frost collection.

 

 Now it is starting to look more colorful!

Then I place a thin acetate on the back of the front. This is important as without it the next step would not work.

I die cut then once again the Union Jack flag using a soft blue patterned paper. Then I place the elements carefully attaching to the acetate using vellum glue.

I chose an old rub on with a Christmas message on as I wanted the sharp white that you can not replicate with anything else but a rub on. The message is directly on to the acetate so when the card opens it looks like the message floats.