N is for Noel

 

Beccy's Place runs a month of Holiday Cards challenge throughout November. Most days are a prompt with the letter of the alphabet but as there are only 26 then we get a random prompt too.

The prompt for Day 16 is the letter N. Mine is N for Noel & Neige (French for Snow)

Over the years I have had many old cards given to me by friends and family that I have cut up saving sentiments and elements I can recycle in my own card making. This all started when I was making cards over 30 years ago now and there was so little around in those days, no papers and big collections like there are now costing huge amounts of money. You had to think out of the box and re-purpose things meant for another purpose. Any money I made over the years by making cards for commissions was ploughed into buying supplies so I am fortunate to have my own craft room full of supplies amassed over the years. I still love to make things though from recycling.  As a Yorkshire lass we are known for being thrifty.

The starting point for this card was the sentiment. It was already foiled in silver so I matted it onto some metallic cardstock and added foam pads for dimension.

The base of the card is an A4 sheet of the same silver card which has a lovely glittery snow effect paper which gorgeous bokeh. The colours are very neutral (another N!).

The snowflake is aniother recycled element. It has a flock texture and feels like fuzzy felt. I added a large gem to the centre and then a small one to each of the junctions in the snowflake. 

It is quite clean and simple for one of my cards with a lot of negative space. Me being me I couldn't leave it so plain so I added some clusters of gems to the background paper for a bit more sparkle. 

Card Details -

Size - A5

Designer Paper - Merry Christmas Icy (Craft Sensations)

Embellishments - gems

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

Beccy’s Place Challenges - Month of Holiday Cards Day 16 - N is for Noel