Christmas cards: Embossed snowflakes

What:

A trio of Christmas cards that developed from the simple idea of heat embossing snowflakes onto patterned paper.

How:

I started by choosing a wintry blue patterned paper and white heat embossing a random covering of snowflakes of all sizes onto it. Then I die cut some different shapes from it (still with no real idea of what I was going to do with them) and blended some Distress ink over the edges. I had some black card handy, so I used that to die cut some matching frames.

Still assembling elements, I stuck strips of sparkly acetate onto some card and die cut two lace edges; I stamped the sentiment above the lace. For the third sentiment I stamped it on a piece of vellum and cut it into a banner shape. I found a handful of die-cut snowflakes in my stash.

Three card bases were stamped with some small snowflakes from the same set used for the heat embossing.

Then came the time-consuming part: playing around arranging all the elements to create three cards I was happy with. Once I’d done that and fixed everything in place, I finished the cards off by adding a few clear gems and using a white gel pen to create some faux stitching on the black pieces.

CR00164 Embossed snowflakes

CR00163 Embossed snowflakes

CR00165 Embossed snowflakes

Supplies:

• stamps:
  Hobby Art – winter’s snowflakes
  Waltzingmouse Stamps – folk art Christmas additions
• dies:
  Spellbinders – labels 20
  Lawn Fawn – stitched circles
  Lawn Fawn – stitched squares
  Joanna Sheen – lace edger 1
  Joanna Sheen – lace edger 2
  Clearly Besotted – snowflake trio
  Sizzix – framelits – circles 2
• inks:
  Ranger – archival – jet black
  Versafine – onyx black
  Distress inks – tumbled glass, broken china
  Versamark
• pens:
  Uni-ball – Signo UM-153 – white
• embossing:
  Wow! – super fine bright white
  Wow! – super fine clear gloss
• embellishments:
  Kars – adhesive drop gems – transparent
• paper and card:
  Papermill Direct – linen card – ivory
  Papermill Direct – plain card – black
  First Edition – paper pad – silent night
  Hunkydory – adorable scorable
  Stix2 – self-adhesive sparkly acetate
  Hunkydory – mirri card – festive rainbow