Fanciful Snowflake

A coverplate that had been out of stock for months arrived in-house at Papertrey Ink last week. When I put the order in, I added the Fanciful Snowflake hot foil plate as well. Yesterday I spent some time just foiling with holiday and background hot foil plates. I should have done some of it much earlier, but I now have a wonderful stash of foiled holiday sentiments which you’ll see later for sure. I love this beautiful snowflake, and although it’s large, it makes a wonderful clean and simple card. 

I used a holographic foil from Spellbinders for the first time, and it’s just stunning in real life. You do get a good sense of it in the photos, though. It’s also a bit hard to tell that the card is a dark navy blue.

It really didn’t need any embellishment, but I added one iridescent jewel from Pinkfresh Studio to the center of the snowflake.

I didn’t trust my hot foiling skills enough to try and hot foil a sentiment onto the card front. This sentiment is from Gina K’s “Blizzard” which I embossed in silver and die cut.

I’m entering this in several challenges. First, CAS on Friday where the challenge is Sparkle (and this is very sparkly in person). Next to The Paper Players who are looking for CAS Christmas cards. Then Simon Says Monday Challenge: Fun with Foil, and finally, the Merry Little Christmas challenge (my first ever entry) where Anything Goes that’s Christmas.