Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Festive Friday Challenge #12

Good morning friends.  I'm back with another Christmas card to add to my growing collection, and the challenge this time at Festive Friday's is a trigger challenge:


SNOW  That means snowmen, snowflakes, snow villages, snow scenes.....the list could go on and on! :0)  I love snowflakes!  I'm one of those who loves folding up squares of paper every winter and making all those tiny cuts that when opened reveal a beautiful intricate snowflake! :0)  So anyways, I chose to do a "fun" snowflake card using my Spellbinder snowflake dies.  Take a look:

  
This is another one of those simple and quick cards that would be easy to mass produce and it's also relatively flat, so easy to mail too!  The idea originally came from a card on Splitcoaststampers, where they used the same colors, and then Christmas ornaments instead of the snowflakes.  It was the color combination that drew my eye in the original, and I loved the non traditional look!  Just a simple white card base with the bottom 2 corners rounded, the 3 die cut snowflakes (SU!'s Certainly Celery, Pink Passion, & Pool Party), and the sentiment from PTI's "Think Big Favorites #20".  I finished with an iridescent snowflake sequin, and a few diamond bling dots for some sparkle.  Easy peasy! :0)

Going to enter this in Merry Monday's "Anything Goes" Christmas card challenge too.  There's really no excuse not to get started on your cards now when there is SO much inspiration out there to get the juices flowing!  So what are you waiting for?!  Start looking right now at Festive Friday's site: http://www.festivefriday.blogspot.com/  or Merry Monday's site: http://alwaysplayingwithpaper.blogspot.com/   Actually there's even more Christmas card sites out there, but two challenges is enough for me to play along with right now. :0)

That's all for today, but I'll be back with some more inspiration tomorrow.  I made a set of birthday and thank you cards for one of my good friends birthday that turned out really nice and so hopefully I'll share those tomorrow.  Thanks so much for stopping by today and have a terrific Tuesday!

8 comments:

Kathy said...

Such a cute card!

Sherry Eckblad said...

Beautiful card. I love how you hung the snowflakes. Thanks for joining us at Merry Monday.

Meredith MacRitchie said...

Oh, I LOVE the colours! This is so fresh and trendy - gorgeous! The layout is also really fun; your dies worked perfectly! Good to see you again this week at FF!

Ardyth said...

Love the fresh, fun colours! Thanks for playing along with Festive Friday!

Notes by Nina said...

Wonderful card, I love the colours you used. Thank you for joining us for Merry Monday.

Bonnie said...

What pretty snowflakes, Marcia! I love how they are dangling from the string! Fantastic colors too! Thanks so much for sharing with us at Merry Monday!

Geri said...

Oh, Marcia...your little flakes look so sweet dangling like that! And I love the pretty colors you've chosen! Great to have you back at FF with such a sweet card!!!

Allisa said...

Fun color scheme! Thanks for playing with us at Merry Monday!