Crafter's Companion and Papertrey Ink Christmas card for Christmas Kickstart Challenge

 

Hi all,

I was so pleased when Jo from dotty pudding designs asked me to be her guest elf for the Christmas Kickstart Challenge #60, and I even got to choose the subject! 

I love the gorgeous graphic Jo has created for the challenge so I had to steal the beautiful background colour for my snowflake card

I cut a square from the mint satin finish card from the Watercolour Christmas collection by Crafter's Companion which has a white core. I then cut it down the centre with the Penny Black Curved Stitches die before embossing it with the Delicate Snowfall embossing folder, again from Crafter's Companion Watercolour Christmas Collection. I carefully sanded the embossed snowflakes to expose the white core and then added stickles to them to add some sparkle although I haven't been able to capture it in the photos.

The die-cut sentiment is from the Papertrey Ink Wonderful Words: Snow stamp and die set. I stamped the sentiment on the satin card with Versamark ink and added white embossing powder so the mint card shows through as snowflakes before die-cutting it. I really wanted a shadow mat for it but didn't have one so I cut another SNOW and cut it in half down the middle before placing it behind the white one with a little gap in the centre so it would show as a mat.

I layered everything onto a pierced white square card and then onto the base card before finishing off with a few clear gems to the centres of the snowflakes.

I do hope you will join us in the Christmas Kickstart Challenge this time and I look forward to seeing your entries in the gallery over there.

I'd like to play along at

Make the Cards Challenge #49 - any shade of green (I used mint green)

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge #11- - anything Christmas goes

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs

Carol x