Double Christmas Card Day

Good morning all!  We are getting closer and closer to Christmas so hopefully you have all your cards done and dusted, but if not, here are a few more to inspire you.  The first one is rather traditional with it's white embossed background (yes it is white!) and it's red poinsettia flowers.  I used the Holiday Magic embossibility folder to add texture to the top half of the card.  I stamped my sentiment on the bottom and used some white seam binding to create a border between the two pieces.  I used the Holiday poinsettia die and our red felt to create the lovely flowers for the card.  I added leaves in two shades of green felt as well.  The centres were adorned with white flatback pearls and a bow tied from the white seam binding just peeks out from underneath the flowers.  I finished the top corner with a pearl snowflake to add a touch of bling before adding my double white pierced mats.  Finished dimensions are 7 1/4" x 8 1/2" in size.  Card number two is less traditional, just scroll down to see it.

While brown is not ordinarily a colour that I would use for a Christmas card, I had been playing around with my high-low technique and just couldn't stand letting the background go to waste.  Who says you can't do Christmas in brown, right? LOL  I just needed to step outside my comfort zone a bit the day I made this as I had been doing far too many red, green ,gold or silver Christmas cards at that point!  I started with a piece of chestnut brown card and used a piece of self adhesive sticky sheet to cover a piece large enough to fit my 6" x 6" mask called Squared.  I coated the mask with clear Perfect medium to keep it from sticking too much, but I didn't want to use other products such as an anti-static pad or washing up liquid as are sometimes used because they may have prevented the other materials from sticking properly.  This is especially true when you use micro beads as they are heavier and require the full stickiness of this product.  I had planned on using micro beads when I started this, but decided to use Iced Snow to see what the effect would be.   I first covered the exposed area with bronze polished silk glitter.  You have to use the finer product first when doing this technique, then remove the mask and cover the other exposed area with the more coarse product, in this case the Iced snow.  I used the Resplendent Rectangles to create an outside border fin white or my focal element.  I stamped the tree stamp (Creative Expressions) with a clear Perfect Medium and white embossed it on Chestnut brown card.  I used the large Label die to cut it out.  I mounted it offset on my background.  I used Mimi Brown seam binding and wrapped it around the opposite corners of the background.  I tied a bow, finished it with a pearl embellishment and added it in the corner under my tree .  I finished the card with double pierced white mat layers.  Finished dimensions are 7 1/2" x 7 1/2" in size.   Would you like to see a sneak peek for Sunday's show tomorrow?  I think that would be the perfect post for a Saturday, check back tomorrow! All for now, Sue x