What's Black and White and Red All Over?

Hi my crafty friends!  It's an embossed snowflake card!  A very non traditional snowflake card, but just the same.  I used the JustRite Snowfall Background to create this card.  Now I find large background stamps a bit difficult to use sometimes, but I do love them.  So I had to figure out a way to stamp them so I could continue to use them (I have a bit of arthritis in my hands so I found I could not get enough pressure on them).  This stamp is set up in two halves with the centre of it empty so you can put your sentiment there.  For this reason, I found it quite the breeze to stamp half of it and then do the other half.  I wasn't worried about lining it up as I cut both halves out and mounted them on foam, recessing the sentiment area.  I stamped this with a clear perfect medium pad on to black card.  I then embossed with white powder so all the swirls and snowflakes show up in black, coming through from the card.  I stamped my sentiment the same way on the black card and white embossed it.  I cut the larger snowflake out of black glitter card.  The snowflake in the foreground was cut from white card that had a sticky adhesive piece attached to it.  I peeled the backing paper off after cutting it and covered it with clear micro beads for texture.  I tied a messy bow out of the lipstick red seam binding and mounted the snowflakes in the centre.  I matted the entire piece with a double mat of coconut white card and pierced the inside mat for a nice frame.  Roll on Christmas, I'm almost ready!  All for now, Sue x