Christmas Double Days

 Hello my crafty friends!  Two completely different styled cards.  The first one is very clean and simple, even relatively flat (can you believe it!).  I started by creating the background using a piece of Sky Blue card, I flicked a white paint pen at it to give it the look of stars.  I inked around the edges with Stormy Sky distress ink to shade it a bit.  Next I created the lower half by tearing kraft card in the appearance of two large sand dunes and I inked the edges lightly with some Tea Dye distress ink.  I glued them on to the bottom of the blue card.  I cut the Three Wise Men Mini Striplet out of black card and glued it to my background so that the sand dune on the background was in the same place as the sand dunes in the scene.  I cut the Peace on Earth die out of black card and nipped around it so I just had the word "Peace" for a simpler sentiment.  I cut a single star from the Christmas Angel 2015 die set and glued in the upper right corner.   The card was then completed with a white pierced mat, thin kraft and thin Sky blue mats and a final white mat.  The finished dimensions are 7" x  8" in size.  Scroll down to see card number two.

 Card number two is a more traditional sort of card with it's bright red and white.  I used the Lyra die to cut an angle on a piece of coconut white card.  I stamped my sentiment (Justrite stamps) and embossed it in white on a piece of ruby red card.  I taped the white piece on top of it so the sentiment showed from underneath the Lyra edge.  I stamped the Pinstripe Poinsettia and embossed it in white on Ruby Card.  I used the Classic Poinsettia die to cut them out and then offset them to create the three flowers.  I seated them on some white tulle and added several pieces of Holly Spray around them.  The card was then completed with a white pierced mat layer, a thin Ruby red card layer and a final white mat.  The finished dimensions are 7 1/4"  x  8 1/2" in size.  All for now, Sue x

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