Christmas Double Days

Hello crafters!  We are counting down now with only a few more Christmas double days left before the big day.  First up is a black and white card.  I cut the Cottage Scenes in white and slightly overlapped them.  I cut the Starry Night background in black and used it as a backdrop for the cottages.  I added a piece of Icicle card to show through the stars and moon.  I left a bit of card below the cottages for my snowman.  I cut the Snowman Snowglobe Scene and nipped away the scene, keeping just the snowman.  I used the die to emboss the design into another piece of white card and I hand trimmed the backing for just the snowman from it.  I added him with mounting foam in the corner.  Using the Merry Christmas Trim die, I cut it in black and backed it with white to show through the negative cut out area.  I added it in the lower right corner.  I used Cosmic Lacquer squiggled across the leftover area and added Iced Snow to it for a frosty feel.  This also disguised the small line left from cutting the cottages.  The card was completed with white and black mats.  The finished dimensions are 7 1/4" x  7 1/4" in size.  Scroll down for card number two.

For card number two, I cut the Swirling Stars die three times in Antique Gold card.  I covered a piece of milk card with a self adhesive sticky sheet, peeled the backing off and laid down all three of them on it.  I coated the remaining exposed area with Diamond Sprinkles.  I used the Double Pierced Noble Rectangles and cut a multi layer frame out of milk card for the base and a smaller top frame of the Antique Gold card.  I seated the frame over the background and trimmed away any excess card.  I stamped a sentiment and embossed it in gold ten cut it out with the Pierced Flags die set, adding a thin matching mat with them of gold card.  I added the sentiment to the lower area of the frame and accented it with glittery poinsettias made from the Poinsettia Addition die set.  I used gold alcohol ink mixative to match the clear Dazzlers for the centres of the flowers.  Cream tulle and gold metallic linx were added as accents for the flowers.  Gold and milk mats were added to complete the card.  The finished dimensions are 6 3/4" x  8" in size.  All for now, Sue x

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