Bang! Card making: with a car from a Christmas-cracker [and there's today's tongue-twister right there].

Hello hello.

There are a couple of reasons I feel it's OK to share this particular card today; and they're both to do with the season.


A typewriter comes in really handy for creating a quick sentiment for cards.

For a start - it's now officially Autumn - so the card's colour scheme of greens turning into yellow, orange and brown is appropriate in itself:

[The background paper is just a page from an old book which I had handy while I was experimenting with paint. I just removed excess paint from my brayer on to it.]

So, yes, the autumnal colour-scheme is one good reason to share this card right now:

But then there's this ...

... the car embellishment focal point is actually a little gift I saved from a Christmas-cracker last year!

And, in the past, whenever I've shared the cards I've made with silly throwaway [or not!] Christmas-cracker gifts someone usually says they wished they'd seen the idea before Christmas, so they could save some of their own.

So here it is, your 3 months in advance warning:

• Remember to collect up all those odd bits and bobs you find inside the traditional [who said tacky?] crackers!!
• Prepare yourself to gently manoeuvre little children out of the way at the Christmas dinner table to scoop up the bits before they get their sticky little hands on them. [What? They'll only play with them for 2 minutes then throw them on the floor. Or choke on them. So really, you're doing them a favour.]
• Then make sure to remind yourself to reuse them on fun cards throughout the year ahead!

If this has whetted your appetite for Christmas-cracker-gift card making ideas ... then here are several of my previous examples:

• Bang! and tap, tap, tap: Cardmaking with Christmas cracker gifts, a typewriter & a pinch of Minecraft 
• Bang! Cardmaking with Christmas cracker gifts: 1  
• Bang! Cardmaking with Christmas cracker gifts: 2
• Bang! Cardmaking with Christmas cracker gifts: 3
• Cardmaking: a puzzle-piece Valentine
• Cardmaking with embossing folders + puzzle-pieces 

But ... if it's whetted your appetite for Christmas Lunch ... I'm sorry about that ... I can't help you there! Will it take your mind off it if I just sing the 12 Days of Christmas to you? Five go-oh-ld riiiings, four calling birds ...

Julie ;-)