snowflakes!

Hello!!  It is raining, raining, raining here in the Pacific Northwest, but just the other day I got my Spellbinders November small die kit and I could not wait to make something with the gorgeous snowflakes in the kit.   So... I made two cards, lol!  I was inspired by the colors and snow in the photo for the challenge over at the Paper Players.  However, I did not pay attention to the fact that they wanted a clean and simple design based on the photo.   I was entirely caught up in the idea of creating a night sky background for my snowflake that was made using two of the coloring in the inspiration photo (green and blue).  Interestingly I had actually started die cutting all the pieces for the snowflake on Saturday night so I did not know what the Paper Players challenge would be!  Anyway, I ink blended my background using distress oxide ink in Tumbled Glass, Chipped Sapphire and Black Soot.  When I was done I cut a rough circle from some scrap paper, placed it on my background and splattered the piece with watered down acrylic paint.    When it was dry I die cut it using a rectangle die from A Jillian Vance Design.  The large snowflake is actually created by die cut three different pieces and then layering them together.  Had to do that five times for each part of the snowflake.  I used silver mirror cardstock and green and light blue glitter cardstocks.  There is a little accent piece that was die cut from additional light blue glitter cardstock.  I adhered all my pieces together to make my snowflake.  It was at this point that I looked at the challenge, again, and realized my card might not fit.    I finished it and then hatched the idea for the second card that does better fit the challenge.   The sentiment is from a stamp set from A Jillian Vance Design called Just beCLAUS and was heat embossed in Imagine Crafts black on vellum and was die cut using a banner die that is also from AJVD.  Everything was adhered together using my favorite glue Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive.  I do love how this card turned out!   Affiliate links used where possible at no cost to you.

Okay now for the second card.  This one uses the three snowflakes from the kit and the layout is based on a fun sketch courtesy of Sunday Stamps.  Big shout out to the design team at Sunday Stamps for picking the card I submitted for the last challenge as one of their Top Cups!  Thanks!  Anyway, I used the same green and blue glitter cardstock along with a silver cardstock to die cut my snowflakes.  They were backed with circles die cut from light gray cardstock using Spellbinders classic circle dies.  I adhered silver thread to the back of each circle and then to the back of the rectangle I die cut from white cardstock (AJVD rectangle die).  I adhered the large circle flat to the panel and the other two with foam adhesive.   The sentiment is from AJVD (same stamp set I used for the first card) and was also heat embossed on vellum using Imagine Craft black embossing powder and VersaMark watermark ink.   The panel was then adhered to a card base made from the same light gray cardstock I used to die cut the circles.   I finished things off my adding little bows tied with the silver thread.  Now this card more fully fits the inspiration/theme of the Paper Player challenge, I think.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!  Don't forget about the Spellbinders pre-holiday sale going on.  It last until December 3rd and you can find all the details here.