Faux Silk Snowflakes

Happy Friday!  Just one more Christmas card before I give you a break from them!  Not too long, though, as I do have a bunch of them just waiting for their day on the blog!  a little story for this one, whenever my daughter comes to visit, we take a day and go thrift store hopping.  She used to have to drag me kicking and screaming, but since I found my nifty dictionary last year, I have been raring to go!  I started looking at everything differently then.  It wasn't just junk anymore, it was treasures and since then I have found some really nice items for my card making.  The background on this card was the result of one of those finds.  There was a stack of this blue tissue paper at one of the shops for 25 cents (about 18p) and I just loved the vibrant blue so home it came with me (along with some great buttons I found).  There is a lovely technique called "faux silk" that I usually do with white tissue paper, but I thought let's see what it looks like with the blue tissue paper.  I love it!  I think it works a treat with the snowflakes too!  I watered down some Cosmic Shimmer dries clear glue and painted a piece of white card so it was entirely covered.  I use a piece of cut 'n dry foam for this as it's quicker.  Crumple up your tissue paper and then gently open it back up but don't take out all the wrinkles.  Lay it on your glue covered background and use your foam to tamp it down.  Be very gentle with it as it will tear quite easily.  I use a bit more of the glue mixture on the top to make sure it is nicely affixed.  Let it dry and trim it to size.  You can also use your heat tool to speed up the drying process.  I stamped my sentiment in black, then cut the ends at an angle so it would sit diagonally on the corner of my card.  I cut two small strips and used one of the egdeability inserts to cut them both.  I backed the cut out sections with a strip of blue card, then mounted them on foam pads then on to the edges of my sentiment strip.  I adhered a sticky adhesive sheet to a piece of white card then loaded it up with an assortment of the new snowflake dies and cut them all.  I micro beaded all the snowflakes for texture.  Some of them I placed two on top of each other and some were placed on the background on their own.  I placed an assortment of the snowflakes all over the background and one in the corner below the sentiment.  I added some half pearls to the centres of all of them as accents.  I double matted it in white and pierced the edges to finish it off.  You can see a few close ups below.  I love the micro beads on the snowflakes, it really makes them look frosty, doesn't it!  All for now, Sue x