I had told myself to make never-ending cards for my close friends this Christmas, and so was glad that, after exhausting the set of 4 cards from the Crafts Beautiful kit, Quick Cards made Easy magazine Issue 171 came complete with 4 festive card papers. Instead of using them to make gift boxes using the freebie template, I decided to cut up those cards to serve as bases for endless cards instead. 4 papers = 2 card bases. And since the papers are patterned on one side, it means I would spend less time decorating the cards!
I was also pleased that the free wintery floral papers provided inside the magazine matched these card bases well. So I simply had to dig up some scraps for decorating & matting, and these are the results!
Unfortunately when making the 1st card, I forgot to check the dimension of the toppers I chose, concentrating only on matching the colours & paper patterns! So again I had a case of part of the greeting peeking out of a different card face *grimace* Hopefully by choosing red papers for the rest of that card face, my friend would think it’s part of the design!
For the next card I made sure I won’t repeat the same mistake again. Fortunately the free papers are thin, and so doesn’t add much bulk to the cards. But the festive card bases were a bit too thick for never-ending cards – the creases and folds were thick & obvious and interfered with the seamless look I was trying to achieve on some of the card faces. I must remember not to use such heavy papers as endless card bases again, must keep it to under 200 gsm!
I kept the designs of the 2 cards simple to maintain the vintage feel, and also to further speed up my cardmaking! I was really behind schedule!!! When I finally finished these cards 2 nights ago, I realised I would never get to finish another 3 never-ending cards before I leave for my holiday, and so had to change my plans and come up with some quick decoupage cards instead!
My only consolation is that I managed to use up all the few X’mas supplies I bought this year (though I still have left over papers from the 2 card kits). I didn’t manage to use up anything from my stash bought last year or the year before, though, so my pile didn’t really diminish as planned, but I guess I should be glad it at least didn’t grow further!
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