Freshly Made Sketches #715

Hello friends.  Playing along with the Freshly Made Sketches Challenge where DT member Karren has a challenging sketch for us to follow (at least it was challenging for me!).

Sometimes when a challenge is too challenging for me, it's because I over-think it, and I think that was the issue here.  Once I got an idea in my head, the card came together very easily!  Here's what I came up with...

I've been seeing a lot of these 3D snowflakes popping up in blogland since SSS and Tim Holtz revealed his 3D snowflake, and it got me to thinking that I had something similar...somewhere.  Yep, PTI put one out years ago (Tim's is more ornate) and I found it buried under a bunch of older PTI sets.  I found a sheet of dsp (I think it's SU!) with tiny snowflakes on it and die cut the two pieces to turn it into a 3D snowflake.  The die comes with a smaller snowflake die to put on top (it holds the 3D snowflake in place so it doesn't fold up on itself) and I cut it from plain white cs and then glittered it up with Tim's Rock Candy Glitter.  I used The Greetery's smallest Capsule Basic die and embossed it with SSS's Snowflake Visions ef (Yes, I know you've seen it plenty here as I'm a bit obsessed with it!!), before adding the smallest Capsule Filigree Border die cut in matte gold to go around the embossed piece.  

A strip of the same dsp as the 3D snowflake was added to the top of my card and a sentiment from PTI's Stylish Sentiments: Holiday was stamped and matted with the matte gold cs to finish off this CAS card.  Oh, and a few gold gems from PFS.  This one is definitely NOT mailable, but that's ok as I'll hand deliver this one to a dear friend in my bible study group.

The DT has some beautiful examples of this sketch to inspire you right HERE if you want to play along, but you'll have to be quick as this challenge ends today at 3:00PM.  
 

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