Christmas wishes

Hello and welcome to my blog, today I would like to share with you my first Christmas card of the year. It feels very strange to be making this in July, in the middle of Summer here in the UK, but it's never too early to make a start on your Christmas crafting. This card is simple and elegant and perfect for somebody special at Christmas.

I would like to enter  this card into the following challenges:

• The house that stamps built DCC JL120 ~ Christmas in July! - The house that stamps built
• Fezziwigs festive frolics challenge blog - Fezziwigs challenge 14 - anything festive goes
• ABC Christmas challenge - O is for over the top ABC Christmas challenge

Please see below for all instructions and products used:

• Starting from the bottom I have a 5x7 white card blank then a pearlescent blue mat. I have taken a silver and white mat layer and using a snowflake background stamp from a magazine freebie, I have stamped all around the edges of both the silver and white card stock pieces in ranger clear perfect medium the heat embossed the image with a silver superfine embossing powder. With the silver piece I have run my glue pen all around the edge of the card stock and added some iridescent glitter and fixed all three panels onto the base of my card using wet glue.
• Next I have taken another piece of the silver pearlescent card stock and a piece of white card stock. With the white piece I have run this through my die cutting machine with a snowflake background die, again the die free from a magazine. With The Silver piece I have used a snowflake embossing folder and also run this through the die cutting machine, I have fixed the white die cut piece to the silver embossed panel and attached to the front of the card with wet glue.
• For the bauble, this die was also free from a magazine. I have used a piece of the same blue pearlescent cardstock as the background panels and cut out the outline shape of the bauble with my die cutting machine, next I have traced around the inside of the die onto white cardstock and hand cut the centre piece, I ran the white centre piece through my die cutting machine with another embossing folder. For the tag I have heat embossed the sentiment onto the blue cardstock with silver superfine embossing powder. I then attached the bauble on a slight angle with foam pads onto the front of my card.
•  For the embellishments I have cut some snowflakes out with a die and attached to the bauble with some gems to the centre. I also added some gems to the centre of the snowflakes in the die cut background. And finally I have added a silver organza bow above the bauble and die cut a small poinsettia flower to cover the knot.

Products used:

• Blue and silver pearlescent cardstock from Hobby house
• Wow - Superfine silver embossing powder
• Pearly background embossing folder from Chloe's creative cards
• Snowflake die, stamp and embossing folder all free gifts from magazines
• Poinsettia additions die set from Sue Wilson at Creative expressions
• Silver organza ribbon, gems and glitter all unbranded from Amazon UK

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