Snowflake Christmas Batch

Morning my crafting friends, another weekend is upon us. Hope you all stayed safe on Bonfire night? Bonfire night is something we celebrate here on the 5th November each year when loads of firework displays are on and there were loads here, in fact we have had them around for the last couple of weeks and no doubt another week at least until they stop!!! My two cats will be relieved then as they will be allowed out of an evening again! I live opposite two schools, they had their display Wednesday night so we were out watching those, my it was cold!

My Daughter thanked you all for you birthday wishes, she had a good time and seems to be coping well with living alone again and enjoying herself, at least that is what she tells me lol! She liked her cards too.

For today's post I had a go at making a little batch of Christmas cards, something that would not take too long and simple. I have to say they did not turn out as good as I had in my head, but then nothing ever does lol!

I have had these coloured cards and envelopes in my draw for about three years now so I decided to use them and keep to the colour of the card for my toppers.

They are all DL cards and I just matted each one up with White off cuts from my sheets of White card from my other cards, usually too small to make another card out of well they were perfect for these. I then, with more off cuts, coloured with distress inks but in a gradient way leaving a hint of white at the side going from dark to light. 

For each card I stamped snowflakes on the card with my versamark ink pad and heat embossed with White embossing powder. The first one I did (Pink one) I tried stamping the sentiment and heat embossing in Silver, I did not like the look of this so for the others I just stamped the sentiment in Black ink. 

I was hoping to make the snowflakes sparkle but I could not over ink them correctly so left it, I might add some glitter by way of a glue pen later. Here I have shown the Lilac, Pink & Blue, using Peacock feather with the Blue, I also have Yellow and Green cards and envelopes.

Quick, easy and simple cards to make if you want a batch done quickly.

Items Used:

Coloured DL cards (think these were bought from The Range)

Creative Expressions Foundation Card Coconut White

Tim Holtz Distress Inks Shaded Lilac, Victorian Velvet & Peacock Feathers

Sheena Douglass Little Bit Festive Stamps Snowflakes

Papermania Embossing Powder Seafoam White

Justrite Large Fancy Sentiments

Archival Ink Black

Thank you for looking,  Jacquie xxx