Christmas Double Days

Hi there my crafty friends!  A few more of these double days still until the big day is upon us, not long now.  The first card showcases one of my favourite techniques: the shaving foam technique.  I have used  a Chipped Sapphire distress reinker dripped on to the shaving foam for this one.  I won't go into detail here, but there are several Youtube videos showing this as well as a step by step tutorial at the top of my blog if you haven't seen it.  Once I finished the marbling part of this, I dried and covered the piece with a sticky adhesive sheet, then micro beaded it for additional texture.  I matted it with French Navy card.  I cut a smaller piece of navy card and matted it with white for my focal element.  I cut all the pieces of my Snowflake die set and layered them up.  For the middle snowflake, I sprayed it with glue and glittered it for a touch of bling.  I added my usual mats and layers and flatback pearls to the corners and centre of the snowflake.  The finished dimensions are 7 1/4" x  7 1/4" in size.  Scroll down for card number two.

Card number two was a bit of an experiment.  I used a piece of coconut white card and spread various shades of sparkle texture paste on it.  I used the ocean spray, periwinkle, lilac blush and polar white and allowed it to dry overnight.  Once dry, I ran it through the GC on the emboss setting to flatten it out.  I cut the Snowflake background die and used the oval die to cut an aperture into the centre of the background too.  I added a thin frame around the opening using the different sized ovals in the set.  I added mounting foam then placed it over the sparkle texture paste background.   I stamped my sentiment and cut it with the Pierced flags set.  I added it across the opening and cut a couple of Filigree Poinsettias out of vellum to add as accents. I seated the flowers on some white tulle and a bow tied from various matching shades of thin satin ribbon.  The card was finished with a white on white mat with piercing.  The finished dimensions are 6 1/4" x  8" in size.  All for now, Sue x

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