It's A Double Day

 Hello my crafty friends!  It's a double dose of Christmas today and my angel is leading off the way.  It's a funny story about this card.  When I received the Christmas die prototypes, I immediately began to cut them all, grabbing some black card that I had handy.  The angel was first and I didn't get much further for awhile as I was so taken with her that I worked up this card from some bits that I had laying around! LOL  I used a white embossed card made from the Floral Brocade Pinpoint embossing folder and matted it on a thin black mat.  Atop that I gilded a large square piece using a sticky adhesive sheet on card, then rubbed Calypso gilding flakes over it.  I matted that with a thin black mat as well.  I glued my Christmas Angel 2014 die cut in the corner and cut a white dove for her to hold.  In the upper corner, I used a pearl snowflake so it looks a bit like a star.  I finished the card with double white mats with a pierced inner mat layer.  No sentiment needed.  The finished dimensions are 8" x  8" in size.  Scroll down for card no. 2.

 The second card was shown on the blog during the Christmas die launch, but I still feel it needs a proper showing and written instructions.  I started with milk coloured card and stamped my sentiment just below halfway and heat embossed it in silver.  Next I embossed it with my Snowflake Lattice embossing folder.  I cut the piece so there was about an inch and a half of it to use below my borders.   I cut two of the Austrian borders out of milk card.  I offset them so the edges were top and bottom and glued them together, which gives you a completely different pattern.  I glued one edge to the embossed background and the other edge to the smaller piece that I cut off.  I added mounting foam to the back.  I ran a strip of sticky adhesive on another piece of card which lined up with my borders.  I peeled the backing off and added Iced Snow so it showed through from the border area.  I cut a Sentimental Bauble decorative die out of vintage silver card and the matching solid die out of silver and glued them together for a tone on tone look.  I cut the Peace tag out of milk card and added it to mu bauble along with small pearls to the lattice work.  I mounted the bauble in the upper corner with a messy bow tied from chalk seam binding.  I added a vintage silver button and metallic twine to the bow and placed some pearl swirls coming from around the bauble.  The card was finished with a pierced milk mat, a thin silver mat and a final milk mat.  The finished dimensions are 7 1/2" x 8 1/2" in size.  I hope you have enjoyed your double day!  All for now, Sue x