Christmas Double Day

Hello there my crafty blog friends!  I am showing off my Christmas 2015 Angel first off today.  This is one of those really simple cards, doesn't need any sort of detailed explanations, but I'll run through it so you have the names of the products I have used.  I started by embossing a piece of coconut white card with the Illusion Embossing folder.  It isn't a Christmas embossing folder per se, but it does remind me of snowflake swirls so I thought it would work nicely!  Next I used the smaller outside cutting edge from the Ornate Pierced Rectangle Noble die to cut an aperture out of a piece of silver card.  I used both of the cutting edges to cut a thin frame out of Sky Blue card and glued it to the silver aperture to create an edged frame.  I added mounting foam to it so that it was raised over my embossed background.  I cut the Christmas Angel out of the same silver card and added her to the centre of the frame.  I used the Peace word from the Dove of Peace die set and cut it in blue.  Lastly, I cut an assortment of the twinkle stars from the Angel set in both silver and blue and scattered them around her.  I completed the card with a white pierced mat, a thin blue and silver mat and another wider white mat.  The finished dimensions are 7" x  8 1/2" in size.  Scroll down for card number two.

Card number two actually made it's debut  recently during the mini Christmas die blog launch, but I thought you might enjoy a closer look at it with some walk through directions too of course!  I started by using the Lattice mask on a piece of coconut white and pulling Polar White Sparkle Texture paste through it and allowing it to dry.  I added another small piece of card to the bottom area and a very thin piece of red card to separate it.  I stamped my sentiment and cut it out with the snowflake tag, then spray it with permanent spray adhesive and glittered it with Diamond Snow.  I added the tag to the bottom of the card with mounting foam.  For the focal element, I picked out two shades of green card (from my stash) and cut multiple Filigree Holly dies.  I arranged them in the shape of a wreath using glue dots, then when I was happy with the shape, I added a bit of Cosmic Shimmer dries clear glue under the back edges of each of them, allowing the tips to remain unattached.  I added some red berries using the berry die cut then added Berry Sparkle PVA glue to them and allowing them to dry.  I completed the card with a simple white on white mat layer.   The finished dimensions are 6 3/4" x  8 1/2" in size.

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