Christmas/Holiday Card #7 - Snowflakes (again!)

Just one more snowflakes, I promise!  I wanted a dark blue snowflake card so had to do one more.

I dry embossed the front of the card with Snowflakes embossing folder.  I've seen other crafters rub ink on their dry embossed images and I've never done it so perfect time to try it out.  I used a new ink from Stampin'Up called Illuminate Glimmer Watermark ink.  It gave the image a subtle glimmer but I'm going for an all out glittery image so had to do more.

Since it's a watermark ink I thought it would work for heat embossing like Versamark.  So I poured Iridescent Ice embossing powder all over the front of the card.  Heat set and voila!  A really glittery card!

I added the die cut snowflake in brushed silver, layered a punched circle from red glimmer paper and another punched circle in brushed silver with the sentiment stamped in Midnight Muse ink.  Final touch is the gray taffeta ribbon.

It's so sparkly I couldn't get a clear shot of the sentiment.  What do you think?

Those are the same cards.  My photo taking skills are not the best so I ended up with two shades of blue.

Till next time....  thanks for stopping by.  Cheers!!!


All supplies used were from Stampin'Up except for the embossing folder which is by Sizzix.

Christmas Card #4 - Holiday Pocket Card Too

Here's the other pocket card I made.  The difference between the two is the length of the front panel.  See the first one HERE.  On this card I kept the front panel long to accommodate the main image and left out the sentiment.  Speaking of image, do you think this will pass for a Christmas tree?  When I was going through my dies, I saw this one from the Foliage dies set by Spellbinders and I thought it would work as a tree.

The panel was dry embossed with Stampin' Up's Perfect Polka Dots folder.   I selected a pattern from Stampin'Up Festival of Prints Designer Paper Stack and die cut the "tree".  I love the look of the tree and you'll definitely see more of those in future posts.  I punched a star from a scrap of red Glimmer Paper.  Added my favorite ribbon and some blings.  How easy is that?

Here's another angle with a peek of the inside.

Okay, I'll stop with the gift card holders now.  I think we have enough ideas on that subject.  I will post a picture recap of all the gift card holders I've done.

Stay tuned for Christmas/Holiday card #5, I'm seeing snow, lots of snow.  Until then ............. Cheers!!!


Supplies:  Cardstocks, glimmer paper, embossing folder and star punch are from Stampin'Up.  Dies are from Spellbinders.  Blings are from Hero Arts.