Winter Wonderland

Good evening - well my post title doesn't reflect the weather here - it has been unseasonably warm today. We woke to thick fog and black ice causing the schools to close but then the day turned into a gorgeous sunny fairly warm one. It has melted lots of the snow - feels really odd after 2 years of very cold snowy winters!

On to today's make, It's the start of a new challenge over at 12 Months of Christmas Link up - Yes keeping making your Christmas cards our challenge runs all year!

Our sponsor this month is Scribbles Designs 

They are offering a $10 gift Certificate to one random winner

The theme this month is Winter Wonderland.  In order to have a chance to win the prize from our wonderful guest sponsor this month,make sure that your card has some snow on it in some form or other.  Snow, snowmen, or snowflakes, it is completely up to you!  If you do follow the optional theme, be sure to add FT after your name so that we include you in the draw for the prize

Remember, you don't need to follow the theme to link up your cards and earn a free paper each month, and have your name thrown into the year end draw for some extra digital goodies.  You only need to follow the theme if you want a chance to win this month's sponsored prize of a $10.00 gift certificate from Scribbles Designs.

As always Decosse's Dynamite Doodles is offering an additional prize of a free digital paper for everyone who links up 2 cards and a mini set of 6 digital papers called SnowBiz to a random winner

On to my design team make 

I have used Snowflake mason Jar  I have lightly colored the jar with my Spectrum Noir Markers to give it a glass look. Then I glittered the snow flakes to make them shimmer. I cut this out and wrapped twine around the top before using dimension dots to adhere to my card which had one of the new Decosse Dynamite Doodles digital papers matted over blue card. I then used 2 So Suzy Stamps - the butterfly and snowflake sentiment to complete my design.

So get started with your cards for the 2016 holiday season and come and join our challenge you never know you may win!!!

Thank you for stopping by

Snowflakes

Good afternoon, well it's coming to the end of a fab week and we are forecast our first frost tonight brrr!

 

I am sharing a cute little Christmas card with you today

 

 

This was so easy to make and looks so effective. I started with a 6x8in piece of snow white centura pearl card. I scored this at 4inches and folded in half. I then cut 3.5 inches from the front.

The die is a snowflake edge'ables by Crafter's Companion. I opened up what was left of my card and laid the die along the score line and cut and embossed it. Once eased out of the die it gives the effect as in the photo.

 

I then cut some snow flecked acetate and cut to 6x4 inches gluing this inside the top edge of the front of the card. I then cut a strip of the centura card and glued this to the bottom edge of the acetate.

I used the fabulous stamps Snowflake Trio and Winter Butterflies from So Suzy Stamps  and stamped them onto the acetate using stayzon ink.

 

 

Snowflakes

Good morning, we are having some great weather here in Michigan, not too hot just right for getting out and about and enjoying the season!

 

Are you loving the challenge theme over at So Suzy Stamps this month - Christmas by the sea!

 

I hope you are all in love with this month's new releases in the store too. I love some of the Christmas sentiments and I'm here to showcase my favorite Winter Butterflies:

 

 

As I Butterflies have a significant meaning for me I think this sentiment is adorable and the font is just stunning!

I stamped the words onto white card with black ink. I then used a grey ink and the Snowflake Trio stamp and inked up just one of the snowflakes which I stamped in apposing corners.

I then too a 3x3 inch piece of double sided Christmas patterned paper and folded 2 of the corners over to show the backside. This was then glued onto a 4x4inch card. I again used the Snowflake Trio stamp in both of the corners of the card not covered by the paper. I place my sentiment onto the center of the card ensuring that I didn't cover up any of the snow flakes making a simple but effective winter card - Ideal for Christmas or any winter occasion.

I made 6 of these and made a purse from the same patterned paper and placed them all inside so they would be great for a gift.

 

 

You can find the details of how to make the purse in a previous post here

 

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