Monochrome Snowflake

 

At Beccy's Place Month long Holiday card challenge the prompt is the letter E. 

E is for embossing

This card contains a few of my favourite things, Snowflakes and recycling.

My starting point was this lovely layout from Creative Sketchy Girls. I had a gorgeous snowflake that I had rescued from an old Christmas card and it needed to be the focal point of a card so the current sketch is perfect. There is just no way such a pretty sparkly snowflake like that should be thrown away..... I see it as my duty to save it from such an awful fate ☺

The card blank has been covered with a metallic paper from Papermania. The starry paper was from a Christmas cracker, the brighter blue strip was from an old Christmas card and the snowflake strip is from my Christmas scraps box. The sentiment is really glittery from an old card and the blue cardstock are all scraps.

I used one of my favourite embossing folders to add the snowflake panel. The scalloped edge die cut circle is from Craftwork Cards and I coloured it with a metallic rub on.

Finally I added some gems. The glittery ones are from The Works & the plain blue is from Poundland (supposed to be self adhesive but the sticky has long gone on them....)

Card Details -

Size - 6” Square

Dies - Framelits Circles (Sizzix), Die cut embossed scalloped Circle (Craftwork Cards)

Embossing Folder - Snowflakes (Cuttlebug)

Colouring Medium - Metallic Rub on chalks

Designer Papers - Kansan Strip, Background is Papermania

Embellishments - Glitter gems & a blue gem

Recycled Elements - Star paper (recycled from a Christmas cracker) bright blue strip, sentiment and snowflake (recycled from Christmas cards)

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order)

• Allsorts - #701 Sparkle & Shine
• Beccy’s Place Challenges - Month of Holiday Cards Day 5 - E is for Embossing
• Crafty Friends Challenge - #161 Christmas
• Creative Sketchy Girls - #77 Sketch for Layout
• Fab ’n’ Funky - #560 Shades of Blue
• Gem of A Challenge - #23 Anything Goes
• Let’s Craft & Create - #189 Anything Goes / Use a Sketch
• Merry Little Christmas - #47 Anything Christmas Goes
• Outlawz Tuesday Colour - Monochromatic Blues & Twist Snow
• Polkadoodles - #45 Anything Goes
• The Holly & Ivy Christmas Challenge - #127 Anything Christmas Goes
• Through The Purple Haze - #198 Monochrome
• Try It On Tuesday - Sparkle & Shine