It's A Double Day

Hello all!  Two completely different styles of Christmas cards today for the double day offerings.  First up is a card that was one of my experiments.  I rather liked the results so decided to finish it into a card.  I started with a piece of clear acetate and covered it with a sticky adhesive sheet.  I peeled the backing paper off and coated it with Calypso gilding flakes, using a piece of Rubit Scrubit pad to move the flakes around and remove the excess bits.  I covered the entire piece, then turned it over and on the acetate side, I used the Justrite Snowflakes and stamped them randomly across it using a Clear Perfect Medium pad.  I heat embossed them with white embossing powder Note: heat embossable acetate needs to be used for this technique.  I matted it on a piece of black card.  I covered another piece of black card and cut my Classic poinsettia die several times from it.  I peeled the backing paper off  of each piece and covered them with clear micro beads.  I made two different sized poinsettias and finished them with a 8mm white pearl in each of the centres.  I added them to the corner of the card along with some Holly Sprays cut from black card and some black tulle.  I stamped my sentiment on to vellum using a black Archival ink pad.  I cut it into a strip and tucked the end under the flowers.  I finished the card with a white pierced mat, a thin black mat and another white mat.  The finished dimensions are 6 1/4" x  8" in size.  Scroll down to see card no. two.

 The second card is far more traditional with the white on white styling.  I used the Snowflake Lattice embossing folder to give texture to a piece of coconut white card.  I covered another piece of coconut white card with a self adhesive sticky sheet and ran both the Christmas Angel and the solid Joy die through.  The angel does not cut all the way through because of the detail but there are spots that will so those need to be taped up from the back before removing the angel from the die.  Once removed, then just lift off the "fall away" areas of the die using a pokey tool to gently lift off the backing paper.  When they have all been removed, cover in Diamond Sprinkles glitter and burnish well.  Then remove the rest of the backing paper and coat in micro beads.  This will give you a tone on tone High-Low technique for your angel.  You can see the detail better in the close up pics below.  Cut a harp out of white card and glue it into her hands.  The Joy word will cut easily, just peel the backing paper off and coat each letter with Diamond Sprinkles and add mounting foam to the back.  Mount vertically in the upper left corner.  Add the angel with foam to the card.  I pierced a white mat layer, then added another mat where I used double sided tape around the edge then added Diamond Sprinkles to it, then a final white mat to complete the card.  The finished dimensions are 7 1/4" x  7 3/4" in size.  Which one is your favourite today?  All for now, Sue x