8 Days Til Christmas

Whenever I still a trigger photo or a sketch, I usually have an idea of how I want to do it. Sometimes, by the time I get to making the card, I go off on a different tangent…. This is what happened to this card. My original idea of using Perfect Pearls for snowflakes… it didn't turned out too great… so then I tried embossing with silver on brown… not too nice either! At the end, I ended up making two cards… which one is the nicer one, let me know!

Challenges:

Case Study Challenge -  #170 Cath from Moxie Fab World 

Retro Sketch Challenge - #94

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Stamp out 2013

CAS-ual Fridays Challenge - Let it Snow

Ingredients:

Neenah Solar White, Metallic card stock, Spellbinders Heirloom Ornament, Hero Arts Embossing Folder, Versamark, Silver EP, MFT DieNamics Let it Snowflake dies, Simon Says Stamp Snowflake die, AC Jewel brad, ribbon, MT Tape, stickles and sequins.

Retro Snowflakes

I'm totally addicted to Retro Sketches, I try to submit at least one card every week and it annoys me when I don't! I couldn't resist Sketch 39 of course. I'm also submitting this card to the Simon Says Stamp - Almost Goes challenge. Here is my card, submitted just before the deadline!

Ingredients:

Cardstock - Neenah Solar White

Stamps - My Favourite Things Christmas Ornaments, Seasonal Sentinments

Ink - Hero Arts Soft Granite and Pool, Tim Holtz Broken China

Die - MFT Let it Snowflake

Others - American Craft Jewel Brad, Kaisercraft rhinestones, Ranger stickles

MFT Guest DT Sketch

I've been gradually acquiring stamps and dies from My Favourite Things. I've been dying to try out the Christmas Ornaments dies and the current MFT Guest DT Sketch 112 is perfect for them! The great incentive is the $200 prize from MFT and also Guest DT. I wanted to keep this card CAS and use some of the techniques I learnt from the Online Holiday Card Workshop. The snowflakes were done with a technique shown by Julie Erbersole in Day 2 and the ornaments were inked with two distress inks with a spray of perfect pearls. I've entered my cards to the MFT DT sketch challenge before, the talent pool is so great that I am always in awe of some of the work represented. It would be great to win this challenge one day - think of all the MFT dies on my wishlist that I can purchase! It would also be an honour and privilege to be a DT for MFT! Thank you for dropping by!

Ingredients:

Cardstock - Via Vellum Kraft, Neenah Solar White, Curious Silver

Stamps - MFT Seasonal Sentiments

Ink - Tim Holtz Broken China and Peacock Feathers

Dies - MFT Christmas Ornaments, Let it snowflake, Fishtail Flag STAX

Others - Sizzix Damask embossing folder, Perfect Pearls mist, Glitter EP, Crystal glitter, Kaisercraft Sparklets and rhinestones