Snowflakes and hearts!

 Hello, hello!  I'm popping in today with two cards that I made using beautiful papers from Your Paper Insider Box 14!   Your Paper Insider contacted me through Instagram and asked if I was interested in creating with one of their boxes.  Of course I said yes!  Who wouldn't want to play with pretty cardstock and specialty papers?!?  The cardstock and specialty papers came beautifully wrapped in teal tissue paper and included a little sheet that shares information on some of the specialty papers and provides a list of everything in the box.  Boxes arrive 4 times a year (January, April, July and October) and cost just $29.95!  Shipping is included, too!  I think that is an amazing deal.  

The cards I made today will be heading to several different challenges:  Sunday Stamps (sketch), Color Hues (blue and white) and Inspired By challenge (I was inspired by the sketch).  The first card also works for the Paper Players clean and simple winter card challenge.  Let's have a look at what I made with some of the papers.

This card was made with shades of blue.  Specifically, Sapphire Colorplan cardstock, Baby Blue Thai Unryu (mulberry paper) and Blue Moon Cocktail.   I die cut the large center snowflake from the Blue Moon Cocktail.  It has this pretty subtle sparkle to it and is so pretty!  The smaller snowflakes were die cut from Sapphire Colorplan.  I cut a strip of the Baby Blue Thai Unryu and then used my wet fingers to pull off small pieces to give the strip that wispy look.  I do admit that I was worried that the strip would be too light, but it looks so pretty against the white cardstock.  I also like how it provides a nice softness to the overall design.   The sentiment is one that I hot foiled ages ago and I believe it is from Pinkfresh Studios, but I'm not sure.

Here is a shot of the two cardstocks and Thai Unryu paper I used along with the dies.  This card will be going to Sunday Stamps and Color Hues. 

 This card will be going to Inspired by Challenge and as stated above I used the sketch for my inspiration.  I used all speciality papers from the box for the main elements on the card.  The white cardstock used in both cards is what I purchased from PaperTrey Ink.   The papers I used are Magenta Thai Unryu, Magenta Non-Shed glitter and Light Pink Non-shed glitter.   I used two heart dies to cut the hearts from the glitter papers and then layered them using a thin foam square.  I trimmed down the Magenta Thai Unryu and used the same process I used on the Baby Blue Thai Unryu to create the wispy look.  I embossed white cardstock with a puffy hearts embossing folder, layered on the Thai Unryu paper and the hearts.  I finished with the little sentiment from the Simon Says Stamp Locket of Love stamp set.  Going to add this one to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge to use embossing.

This is a photo of the specialty papers I used for the second card.

Well, that's it for me!  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!