Christmas cards.....part 1

So, on a cold January afternoon, what better to do while your house is being hacked up by a plumber than update my blog, after all it's only been 4 months since my last post......And to start the new year (I think I can still say that) - Christmas cards. I did intend to do this just after Christmas, got pictures uploaded, cropped and ready to go, but just didn't get round to it...

I originally intended to put all of the cards on one post but thought that would be a bit picture heavy (although it probably still will be), so am now going to try and split them into three. Most of my cards this year were made with the Craftwork Cards 'Festive Chalkboard' collection so I am going to do a post of 'normal' cards made using these, ie square and A6, and one of different shaped cards, ie steppers, pop-ups and tri-folds. I also did some smaller cards using digistamps from Digistamp Boutique - Festive Flamingoes and Festive Foxes which I will post on a third post.  So first of all, the 'normal' Festive Chalkboard ones: