Snowflake Wishes Red Black & Gold : Using leftovers

A Christmas card that uses up some of my leftover Snowflake Wishes

Well, here's the latest in my series of cards using up leftovers - my desk is looking clearer all the time!

The vanilla and black snowflakes were sitting on my desk - so I simply glued them together.  Then I saw the little piece of Gold Foil Sheet so I cut a snowflake from the centre (there's bound to be a card coming up soon that features a gold snowflake!). I adhered the gold rectangle (it's almost but not quite square) to a leftover piece of black cardstock that just needed a tiny bit of trimming.  Then I glued the vanilla snowflake into position.

TIP:  I used adhesive tape to adhere the gold rectangle as I find that wet glues show up on the front of  the metallic card.

HINT: If I were to do this again - I would hide the edges of the gold foil by using a die to cut suitable aperture in the black card and positioning the gold behind it, to form a sort of frame effect with the black.

I stamped the greeting onto a scrap piece of Very Vanilla cardstock and cut it out with one of the Ornate Frames dies.

Thank you for visiting.

'Til next time!

Stephanie

Product List  - All available for purchase from my online store

Snowflake Wishes Bundle (English)

$97.00

Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock

$17.00

Black Glitter Paper

$10.50

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

$15.25

Real Red A4 Card Stock

$15.25

Gold Foil Sheets

$8.75

Red Rhinestone Basic Jewels

$12.25

Ornate Frames Dies

$59.00

Snowflake Wishes Shades of Green

The kittens' fascination with the light box continues!  

I suppose I need to learn to focus in spite of the cute and adorable four-footed distractions!  They really have a fascination with the light box (that I fear will not end well for the box!). They rumble and tumble in there but as soon as I turn on the lights and point a lens in their direction they sit and pose!  Natural models?

A Christmas card that used up some of my leftover bits and pieces!

OK - let's look at the card I was trying to focus on making!

As you may know, I don't like to throw away leftovers!  

The Very Vanilla oval is sort of a double-leftover!  When I wanted to cut a vanilla snowflake, I rummaged in my drawer of white and vanilla "bits" and found the oval that must have been leftover from a previous project.  I'll admit that I took a little bit of care to line up the die within the oval with the thought in mind that I could then make use of the negative shape.

I had cut several Black Glitter snowflakes for this card (which was also all about using a leftover) but didn't use them all, so one of the leftovers found it's way into the centre of the oval.

The Pool Party rectangle was one of the leftover pieces in my blue/green drawer and I cut the scalloped edges from, you guessed it, leftover strips of Very Vanilla cardstock and Black Glitter paper and  I've kept the leftovers from these cuts for future use!

As my grandmother always used to say, "waste not, want not"!
 

Thank you for visiting.

'Til next time!

Stephanie

Product List - All available for purchase from my online store

Snowflake Wishes Bundle (English)

$97.00

Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock

$17.00

Pool Party A4 Card Stock

$15.25

Shaded Spruce A4 Cardstock

$15.25

Black Glitter Paper

$10.50

Rhinestone Basic Jewels

$8.75

Peony Dies

$70.00

Layering Ovals Dies

$58.00

Adhesive-Backed Snowflakes

$10.50

Snowflake Wishes Glittery Step Card

I really needed a piece of 12" square cardstock to make this centre fold card but
made it in two pieces instead

I kind of made this one up as I went along - but I think I got away with it!  It started with the glittery black rectangle with the snowflake negative die cut.  This had been sitting on my table for a while - it was a mistake I made the first time I used this die - I hadn't noticed that it cut the negative shapes.  

I finally got around to doing something with it.

A centre fold fun fold Christmas card featuring a panel cut with one of the Snowflake Wishes Dies

I wanted to use Gray Granite for the card base and for some reason had my heart set on making a centre fold.  The only challenge being that I only had A4 size .   

If you look carefully, you can see where the two pieces have been joined

So this is a centre fold card made in two pieces!  Where there's a will, there's a way - another of my Grandmother's favourite sayings!

Just add glue to the 1.25" section of the main piece and stick it to the underside of the separate tent fold.

Diagram for Part 1 of the long Centre Fold fun fold using A4 size cardstock

Diagram for Part 2 of the long Centre Fold fun fold using A4 size cardstock

Thank you for visiting today.

'Til next time!

Stephanie

Product List - All available for purchase from my online store

Snowflake Wishes Bundle (English)

$97.00

Black Glitter Paper

$10.50

Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock

$17.00

Gray Granite A4 Cardstock

$15.25

Gray Granite 1/4" (6.4 Mm) Shimmer Ribbon

$12.25

Forever Greenery Trim Combo Pack

$15.75

Adhesive-Backed Snowflakes

$10.50

Gilded Gems

$12.25