Winter Greetings

Hi bloggers!  I can't believe that I still have Christmas cards to show, but I do!  Considering that I started posting them around June sometime  (so sorry about that! LOL), you would have thought I had run out of them by now, wouldn't you?  I promise not too many more to go now!  I really like this one even if it is a bit traditional by my standards.  I started with a white background piece that I wanted to give some soft embossing to so I decided to use some snowflake pendant die cuts to do that.  I cut two of them out of kraft card (it is fairly thick and works well for this technique, but you can use any card).  I stacked them on top of each other and glued them together.  I slipped it under my card, locating it in the lower corner, but slightly off the page too.  I placed my tan mat and pink plate on top and ran it through the GC to emboss the shape into my card.  I did it again in the upper corner, taking care to leave my already embossed area outside the machine and plates so they would not flatten.  You might wonder why I didn't just use the dies themselves for this, but you get a completely different look when you emboss this way.  It is somehow softer of a look too. I used Broken ink to lightly highlight the embossed snowflakes on the background too. I used one of the snowflake stamps from the CE set called Snowflakes and Twigs and added some white embossed snowflakes to the background for interest.  Next I cut three small squares of silver, aqua and white and layered them up and placed them on the diagonal across my card.  The centre one was stamped with my sentiment and silver heat embossed, then I did the same technique using smaller snowflake dies to emboss all three of the squares.  I lightly inked all the squares with Broken China also.  I covered two small scraps of coconut white card with our sticky sheet pieces (great to use those odd leftover sized pieces for this) and then I cut two of the small snowflakes and micro beaded them.  I added a flatback pearl to the centres and mounted them in the upper and lower squares, slightly off centre.  I pierced the edges of the white mat giving it a lovely frame to my frosty card.  I hope all your Christmas preparations are coming along nicely and you still find a bit of time to do some relaxing cardmaking over the weekend too!  I have a tutorial for you tomorrow so don't forget to check back.  All for now, Sue x