Christmas Snowflake

I thought I better get a little head start on my Christmas cards.

Every year I usually send out about 40 cards and most

of them are the same and then some random ones I made

during the year.

I am really thinking this might be my mass produced one.

I followed the sketch (of course) this week at 

Palm trees and Pogo Sticks.

Here is my card.

It was so hard to get a good picture of this.  The

snowflake is very sparkly and the Merry Christmas is

heat embossed in silver.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by, have

a great weekend

Let it Snow..........................a little early

I know that most of you back east are very tired of the snow and I also realize it is a bit early to be doing a Christmas card however this week at RAQ's Challenge   on the Cricut message the only thing that kept coming in my head was snowflakes.

The snowflakes are from several cartridges, Holiday Cakes, Accent Essentials and Winter Lace to name a few or maybe all I don't remember, LOL.  I do love the way it turned out and thought about making it my Christmas card this year, but I am no so sure with cutting out all those snowflakes.  Well I have a few months to think about it!  There is one snowflake hidden in there that was a Martha Stewart punch.  I sprayed all the snowflakes with Glimmer Mist, some Glacier and other Dazzling Diamonds.  The happy holidays is a Gina K stamp, that I stamped on a Spellbinder Nestie cut out. Here is a close up of some of the snowflakes.

The snowflakes are pop dotted at different hieghts, then added bling to the centers and called it done.
I am glad you stopped by.

Snowflake................lots of Bling!

This is so so sparkly and pretty in person, it has so much dimension.   I made this to enter in the Cricut Circle monthly challenge where the prize is a Work Box, what a fabulous prize if you haven't seen these check out that link, it would take me a month to put everything in all those drawers.
Well the challenge/theme this month was to celebrate the reason you love to craft by making a home decor project (you also could have made a layout) and you had to use; at least two cuts, the shadow feature, patterned paper, and embellishments...........I think I have them all covered.

I love Christmas and enjoy making things to decorate the house with so that is why I choose to make something Christmasy for the house.  Living in Arizona I felt we needed to have some "snow" for the holidays............................  The snowflake was cut from the Christmas Noel cartridge starting at about 5 1/2 inches.  I cut the blackout feature, shadow feature and the top layer.  The top or snowflake layer was cut several times in decreasing sizes to layer.  The "snow" is cut from Gypsy Wanderings and out of pearl white paper and is about 3 inches long, and I inked the edge with blue ink.  The shadow is my patterned paper cut from a silver holographic paper with a pattern on it.  It does not show up too well in the picture because it reflects the light.  The snowflake layers were all cut from white cardstock.  The white ones were glued and glittered with Martha Stewart crystal fine glitter.  The blue parts were the white paper sprayed with Glimmer Mist Frost color then glued and glittered with the same glitter. Also a few of the layers were pop dotted.  It was hard to glue onto the glitter, in fact I had to add some extra glue to the pop dots to make them hold.   A close up of the word snow shows the paper a little better.

Lots and lots of bling added to the tips of all the snowflakes.  Now to make this a home decor project it was all made onto a magnet sheet.  I cut the snowflake base from the magnet sheet with my Cricut and it cut great, however I think I built it a bit heavy so I am going to add another piece of magnet.  Here is a view from the back

I am so excited about this and can't wait to make more, maybe even in different sizes.  My mind is running wild I could even make these into ornaments.  Thanks for stopping by and would love for you to leave a comment.

***Let it Snow****

I love the way this card came out.  I made it for one of the sketches this week on the Cricut Message board RAQ's Challenge.  The snowflakes were cut from a variety of cartridges, Accent Essentials, A Child's Year (yes there is a snowflake on there) and Don Juan.  I glued them and sprinkled course white glitter on them, the silver one is Martha Stewart glitter.  And added small pearls to the center for more bling.  The tag I cut using the tag feature on A Child's Year and stamped a snowman which I heat embossed with silver.  The saying is a Stampin Up stamp from a past Christmas set. 

The blue strip across the bottom, I Cuttlebugged using Sizzix snowflake folder and sanded it off to show the white core.  This card is very sparkly in person as I sprayed it all with Tattered Angel - Marshmallow, which is quickly becoming my favorite color.   Thanks for visiting and taking a look.