Blue snowflake

 

I think I've said this before, but I'll repeat myself. I love snowflakes as an image or design element, but I prefer they stay out of my life when it comes to weather.

For this card, I played with lots of different snowflakes. The big die-cuts are from a teal colored snippet of cardstock. For the background, I took an array of different sized snowflake stamps and used second, third, and even fouth generation stamping, to keep the background for overwhelming the die-cuts. The sentiment is white-embossed on a pale blue snippet of vellum. (I had trouble getting the vellum to cut straight, and now that I think about it, I usually tear vellum rather than cutting it. I guess that's why.)

This card is entered in these challenges:

CRAFT # 577 -- Christmas

Double D -- winter blues

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #516 -- anything Christmas

ABC Christmas -- Winter Wonderland

Pixie's Snippet Playground #390-- use snippets 

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2046 -- anything goes

Word Art Wednesday # 466 -- anything goes

Crafty Sentiments -- anything goes

Christmas Fun Fold

 I know a lot of people just love fun folds. These folds usually intimidate me, but this one was actually crazy easy. It's called a Triple Fold, and SCS has a tutorial as part of their Falliday Fest. 

It's also a good way to use up snippets, tecuase the two panels on the right only need about an inch to 1.5 inch wide strips of paper on top of the folded cardstock. There's also an inch-wide belly band, which is another good use for snippets.

I used snippets from a 6x6 pad of Christmas card stock where the dominant color is pink -- and don't ask why I bought pink Christmas paper because I'm not sure. (Some of the patterns are non-Christmasy, such as polka dots, so maybe I was thinking it would be multipurpose?) The pad also has a sheet of coordinating sentiments, and I used one on pop-dots for the center of this card. 

I'm entering this card in these challenges:

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge #515  -- anything Christmas

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge -- use patterned paper

 Pixie's Snippet Playground #390 -- use snippets

Word Art Wednesday #464 -- anything goes

Catch the Bug -- November anything goes

Crafty Sentiments -- Anything goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2045  -- anything goes

The Holly and the Ivy #83 -- anything Christmas