Despite the fact that we’ve had more rain than snow in the last week, I chose snowflakes for three birthday cards I needed to make and get in the mail this month. The first two are variations on a theme.
Both the cards and the snowflake dies were cut from Papertrey Ink’s Fresh Snow Linen cardstock which has a beautiful, if subtle, texture, and both feature the same sentiment from an old favorite Papertrey set, Winter Hills.
Both the smaller snowflake (Simon Says’ Lea) and the larger snowflake (Simon Says’ Marie) were die cut three times and stacked for some dimension. The sentiment was embossed in silver on a Pink Fresh Studio Basic Label Frame die cut. The embossing is better seen in close-up:
I’m entering the second of these cards in the CAS on Friday challenge: “Winter.”
The second design was created with the help of my daughter who received a Cricut Maker for Christmas. For someone who showed very little interest in crafting at a younger age, she’s become quite the maker herself. First she took on woodworking, and has a wonderful woodworking shop in her basement. She built her desk for her church office, and has rescued and refinished a number of pieces of furniture. Then she took up quilting, and has created some gorgeous quilts for her children as well as for charity. And then, first with a Cameo, and now the Cricut Maker, is creating all kinds of wonderful projects for her church as well as for her family. While we were there, she was playing around with some woodgrain paper and die cut a beautiful snowflake. I remarked that it would make a beautiful card if it were smaller, and soon I had this snowflake in my hand.
I layered it on a piece of kraft cardstock cut with a Stitched Square die by Simon Says, and backed that with some fun foam for dimension. I didn’t want to obscure any more of the snowflake than necessary with a sentiment so embossed the sentiment from The Greetery, Sentiment Suite: Birthday on a banner with the coordinating die. You can see the texture in the woodgrain paper here as well.
This is the perfect entry for the Seize the Birthday Challenge on now: Layer It!
Absolutely love all these, in particular the top two. The bottom one is stunning too, and very unusual. Amazing to hear how your daughter has turned her hand to so many creative pursuits of late. I’d love to be able to quilt, or to own a handmade one.
These are all lovely … though the white on white is my favourite. You must be so good at lining up those snowflakes to glue together – such a neat idea, and I might even give this a go. I think I have a snowflake punch somewhere … So inspirational as always.
Those first two comments mirror a few of my thoughts … also, those snowflakes would make lovely Christmas ornaments.
Your cards are so beautiful and serene, gorgeous! Thanks for playing along with us at CAS on Friday! Crafty hugs Linda
Gorgeous cards.
Great cards! The wood grain works perfect as a snowflake. And, yes, I’d say your daughter has quite a bit of creativity!
{Deep sigh!} Lovely, Lovely.
All very pretty, but I agree the top 2 are stunning in their simplicity.
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