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Saturday, December 7, 2019

More Christmas cards

Hello!  Popping in with a couple more Christmas cards that I made.  The first one is for Color Throwdown and Freshly Made Sketches.  I used my Glimmer hot foiling system to create this card.  I recently shared a project using the Spellbinders Kaleidescope Triangles die set and I used one of the dies to create my tree.  I found a piece of cardstock that was a light aqua blue that was large enough to make two triangles using the die and green foil.  The foiling is very subtle and pretty in real life.  I have a close up photo, but even that doesn't really show how pretty the foiling is.   Once I had the triangles foiled I hand trimmed them out.   I die cut some gold cardstock using the smallest snowflake from the Spellbinders November small die kit and then cut trunks for my trees from the same cardstock.   The Merry Christmas was gold foiled using the Glimmer and I just love how the sentiment turned out.  It is so pretty in real life!  The white cardstock panel was trimmed down and adhered to a green cardstock base.  I then adhered the triangle trees, the snowflake and three little sequins.   Adding this to the current Time Out challenge of Merry and Cheerful.  I think my trees a rather cheerful!





The second card didn't exactly turn out has I had hoped it would, but sometimes that happens, right?  When I got the Spellbinders November small die kit I die cut one of the snowflakes from some glitter paper I had in a copper color.  It was just there on my work space so I decided to cut additional snowflakes from the same paper and then I adhered them to the beige cardstock panel and die cut it with a rectangle die from AJVD.  I did not have another small snowflake that would fit in the empty spaces so I used clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.  Then came the problem of finding a sentiment.  I decided to use dies from previous Spellbinders small dies kits and cut them from the copper glitter paper and the beige cardstock.  The beige was slightly offset, but it still doesn't provide enough contrast and so the sentiment sort of disappears into the panel.  Live and learn.  I think I will add this to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of traditional Christmas

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

12 comments:

Greta said...

The triangle trees are really neat! So cool what a different foil effect the Glimmer system makes--love it! The snowflakes are gorgeous & great idea to fill in with the sequins!

Linda W. (ScrappinBari) said...

Two Christmas beauties, Rosemary! Just love the green and gold foil on card one and all the shimmer on card two!!

TK said...

Gorgeous! Love both cards, so pretty and unique!

Lisa Elton said...

I like those chubby little trees, they're so cute! And the sparkle on your second card is amazing. Two more terrific cards Rosemary!

Kim S said...

I love the pattern on those trees with the golden snowflake. Thank you for playing along with us this week at Freshly Made Sketches.

Kara Lynne said...

That green foiling is gorgeous, Rosemary! I clicked on the photo of the trees to enlarge it and could really see that intricate shine! Both cards are beautiful! I know what you mean about losing the sentiment, but really it looks subtle and keeps the focus on the beautiful snowflakes!

sandie said...

Beautiful cards, the foiling looks fab. I love the colours for the Time Out card and the arrangement of the trees and snowflake work so well. Thanks for joining Time Out

Lee Ann Barrett said...

Great cards, Rosemary! Your trees card is lovely, a perfect take on the sketch. Love the foil accents. Thanks so much for playing along at Freshly Made Sketches.

Anita in France said...

These are both gorgeous, Rosemary ... love the shimmery gold over those texture-y trees ... and the sparkle and shine on the gold snowflakes is just stunning! Thanks so much for playing along with us at Time Out! Hugs, Anita :)

Cécile RIBON said...

Wow! What a great take on the sketch! I'm totally in love with your graphical christmas trees, Rosemary. And I love the foil snowflake too. Thanks so much for sharing at Freshly Made Sketches.

Kim Heggins said...

so much beauty and elegance in your sweet card. Just love those trees! Thank you so much for playing along with us at Time Out!

Nonni said...

Two great cards and I especially love the first one! The trees have a very contemporary feel and adding the snowflake was a great touch. A very stylish card! Thank you for joining us at Time Out!