Edited to add: So excited that my snowflake card below received a shout out among all of the incredible cards posted. Thanks Festive Friday Team! :)Jill
Today I took a few minutes to make a card for the Festive Friday challenge. The inspiration this week is an element challenge: incorporate a snowflake into your design. Here is the graphic:
The Christmas season is one of my favorites to create for. You can tell how much I like it by the tons of pins on my Christmas board on Pinterest: HERE
Today's card was inspired by several different pins on my board so I can't take credit for the design. I tried to link to a couple of specific pins on individual websites but was having problems finding the original cards - bummer....
The kraft, red, and cream color combo is a favorite of mine for Christmas cards and I use it a LOT!!! I love the old-fashioned vintage look that can be achieved especially when you distress edges with some kraft ink too!
I used some vintage thread in my Janome Sew Mini today and did not have good luck with it. It kept breaking and after re-threading several times I opted to just zig-zag a bunch of holes around my card to add to the home-spun feel that I like so much. The sentiment is from "White Christmas" a stamp set from My Craft Spot.
A close-up of the snowflakes! The large one is from WPlus9 and the small one from MFT. I also impressed my kraft layer with a snowflake impression plate from Papertrey Ink.
Thanks for looking at my card. There is some truly incredible inspiration from the Festive Friday team on their blog: HERE
And a lot of wonderful projects have already been uploaded to the linky tool! I am off to take a look!
I hope you join in too! The deadline is tomorrow - March 13th 2013.
Hugs,
Jill
Today I took a few minutes to make a card for the Festive Friday challenge. The inspiration this week is an element challenge: incorporate a snowflake into your design. Here is the graphic:
The Christmas season is one of my favorites to create for. You can tell how much I like it by the tons of pins on my Christmas board on Pinterest: HERE
Today's card was inspired by several different pins on my board so I can't take credit for the design. I tried to link to a couple of specific pins on individual websites but was having problems finding the original cards - bummer....
The kraft, red, and cream color combo is a favorite of mine for Christmas cards and I use it a LOT!!! I love the old-fashioned vintage look that can be achieved especially when you distress edges with some kraft ink too!
Thanks for looking at my card. There is some truly incredible inspiration from the Festive Friday team on their blog: HERE
And a lot of wonderful projects have already been uploaded to the linky tool! I am off to take a look!
I hope you join in too! The deadline is tomorrow - March 13th 2013.
Hugs,
Jill
Oh, I LOVE how you combined those two snowflake dies, I have to remember to do that! I also adore this color scheme, and I agree that the extra stitching holes add so much character. Love it! Thanks for playing with us at FF and I hope we'll see,you of the next one!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous details, Jill! I love your zig zag faux stitching! It sure looks warm and home-spun! Beautifully done! Thanks so much for stopping by my blog!
ReplyDeleteLOVE that sentiment! Pretty card, Jill!
ReplyDeleteLoving this card, the red negative polka dotted snowflake is gorgeous and I love the touches of distressing - and the quick thinking about the stitching!
ReplyDeleteSo pretty Jill! I love the way you made the snowflake red/polka dot! The use of the stitching is brilliant! Such a sweet touch!
ReplyDeleteLovely homespun feel to your card, Jill. We had a blizzard here yesterday so I'm all about snowflakes at the moment :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment on my blog, Jill. I love your snowflake card - the color and the stitching!
ReplyDeleteThe best part of this is the red and white polka dots on the snowflake. Love this. Such a sweet sentiment as well .
ReplyDeleteJill this is lovely! The best part is the red polka dots . Love that! Such a sweet sentiment as well.
ReplyDeleteHi, Jill! Totally agree, your kraft/cream/red combo is so striking for Christmas. Kinda like a decorator's pallet for Christmas, by eliminating the green. Love your negative and positive to give even more dimension to your snowflake. Well done!
ReplyDeleteLove all your details here, Jill!! I agree with you on the red, Kraft and cream color combo! And I love the negative die cutting with the smaller dimensional snowflake on top! It brings even more dimension in! Love the twine with your other colors, and the sweet little sentiment! Such a pretty card! So glad you were able to join us again!!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card Jill...I am in love with you use of the red polka dots and that sentiment is just the sweetest ever.
ReplyDeleteSo pretty Jill! Love the beautiful snowflake! Cheers from New Zealand!
ReplyDeleteWoohoo! Congrats on the shout out over Festive Friday Challenge!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous!
ReplyDeleteOHHH you did a scrumptious job on the inspiration pic. I had fun being the guest for this week. cherry
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