I was excited to see Regina from BBTB set the challenge this week to use the snowflake cut #13 from Accent Essentials. I agree with her, this is the best snowflake and cuts like a dream. I used this week's Crafts 4 Eternity sketch for my card. I was really excited to see my design technique mentioned on the Crafts 4 Eternity blog this week and hope it helped someone else. The supplies I used for this card:
Dark blue and white cardstock-DCWV
Metallic blue cardstock-DCWV
Winter print paper-DCWV
White lace
Clear rhinestones
Lace corner punch-Fiskars
Martha Stewart glitter
Cricut-Accent Essentials cartridge
This is a 6" square card made from dark blue cardstock. I topped it with blue metallic cardstock placing lace on the edge. I used my pattern I made from last week's Crafts 4 Eternity sketch to cut my print paper. I cut my center snowflake at 2 1/2" added glitter and placed it on dark blue cardstock with the corners punched. My small white snowflakes in the corner are cut at 3/4" and 1" and covered with glitter. I added clear rhinestones to all my snowflake centers. The flourishes on the card are also cut from the Accent Essentials cartridge at 2 1/2" and I put glitter on them. I added clear rhinestones to all my snowflake centers. I used my computer to print my sentiment in blue ink.
Yesterday was new release day at Squigglefly (www.squigglefly.com). That's where this adorable image came from. If you are a Squigglefly newsletter subscriber there is a coupon on this month's newsletter and it's good through tomorrow. They had an event at SNR last night where Holly, from Squigglefly, put out a challenge. It seems that Holly set out on a personal mission to make her own faux flower soft. By rubbing two pieces of styrofoam together you get a similar product. She has a video on her blog to show you how, even how to color it. http://hogwildaboutstamping.blogspot.com/2009/10/make-your-own-flower-soft.html. Anyway, the challenge is to put some "Holly soft" on your card. So here is my card using the sketch from Sketch Saturday. This image is Sledding Sara. I made two copies of the digital image and used one for background, cut Sledding Sara out of the other and used foam dots to layer her over the background image. I used Copics to color. I added Fun Flock onto her boots and you can see my "Holly soft" on the hill she's sledding down. Oh, after I "grated" my styrofoam I added a tiny bit of glitter for a little extra sparkle.
