April Christmas cards: Honk for the Holidays

I know we’re a few days into May, but I still need to share my April Christmas cards. (I finished making them over the weekend, but most of the work was done in April, so I’m still considering them my April cards.) This is a fun batch of cards featuring some festive geese from the Honk for the Holidays stamp set (Unity Stamps).

Aren’t they fun? I wanted this set (and the coordinating Halloween set) as soon as I saw it. I don’t buy a ton of Christmas products because I already have so much, but I didn’t have anything like this, and I’m a sucker for cute animal stamps.

Since I started making these cards at these cards at the end of the month, I didn’t have time for anything too elaborate. So I started by stamping each goose twice on white card stock and cutting them out with a stitched oval die. I did quick and easy coloring with alcohol markers and used a gel pen to add a little sparkle to each image (the Christmas lights, the star on the tree, Santa’s buttons and belt buckle, and the reindeer antlers).

I wanted to give the focal image a little more “oomph” so I matted the white ovals with scalloped black ovals. They still feel a little blah to me, though. Maybe I should have added a bit of shimmer mist or something.

For the card bases I used Toffee card stock (Taylored Expressions’s version of Kraft). I adhered a 2” x 4” piece of red patterned paper to the bottom of each card base. Above the patterned paper I repeatedly stamped a couple of the punny sentiments from the stamp set.(My favorite is “ Ho-ho-honk.”) I filled in the open spaces with a little snowflake stamp from my stash.

Using foam tape I attached each oval to a card base. I wrapped hemp twine twice around the card front (below the oval) and tied it off in a bow. Finally, I finished each card with a few gold sequins. 

I forgot to take a picture of the inside of the cards, but I added a white panel stamped with “Waddling in a winter wonderland.” 

Now that I’ve finally shared my April Christmas cards, I’d better get my act together and work on my May cards so they’re not late, too!

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