Christmas Double Day

 Hello bloggers and welcome to the first Christmas double day this year!  Two very different cards, the first one with a sort of frosty feel to it (which we can use in the middle of July! LOL)  I started with the Peeking snowflake and cutting it in the centre of a piece of coconut white card.  I added mounting foam to the back of it  to raise it for dimension.  I stamped my sentiment on another piece of white card and used Aqua Adirondack ink around it, then covered it with a piece of self adhesive sticky sheet.  I peeled the backing paper off and coated it with Diamond Sprinkles.  I mounted this in the window of my aperture.  Next I tore a piece of white card to create a hill on the card and coated it with spray adhesive and glittered it as well with Diamond Sprinkles.  I added it with foam at the bottom of the card.  I cut the male deer out of white card and added him to the left on my hill.  Finally I added small glue dots all over the background and drew a bead a glue all the way around the edge on the top of the card and coated it with Iced Snow and allowed it to dry.  A pearl snowflake was added in the upper corner, before finishing with my paper pierced mat, thin aqua mat and final white mat.  The finished dimensions are 6 1/2" x  8" in size.  Scroll down for card number two.

 An unusual colour combo in it's dusty rose and silver, but very pretty in real life.  I created the background by using the shaving foam technique with Victorian Velvet ink and Brushed Pewter distress Stain (you have to remove the dauber top to get to the liquid ink to use)  Once dry, I covered the piece with a sticky adhesive sheet and used the large oval from the Peeking Snowflake die set to cut an aperture in the centre.  Next I coated the background with micro beads for texture and added mounting foam to the back.  I stamped my sentiment (from Justrite stamps) and embossed it in silver.  I used a light inking of Victorian Velvet around the sentiment before centring it in my aperture window.  I cut a variety of sizes of the Classic Poinsettia out of silver card and added a glue bead around each of the edges before sprinkling them with Iced Snow.  Once dry, I assembled all the flowers and added them to the card.  I seated the largest flower on a seam binding bow.  I cut two Canadian borders in white and glued them to the top and bottom edges of the card.  A white paper pierced mat, a thin silver mat and a final white mat were used to complete the card.  The finished dimensions are 8" x  8 1/4" in size.  I hope that you have enjoyed the two selections for today.  Have a favourite?  All for now, Sue x

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