Hi friends! For today’s holiday series installment, I decided to do some die cutting with a beautiful snowflake die set from Spellbinders called “Snowflake Card Creator” and an ornament from the Altenew “Lovely Ornaments” stamp and die set.
The supplies used were:
Spellbinders Silver Treasured Cardstock – Glitter Metallic and Matte Metallic
Spellbinders “Snowflake Card Creator” Die Set
Altenew “Lovely Ornaments” Stamp and Die Set
Spellbinders “Festive Ornaments” Die Set (ornament topper)
Spellbinders / Simon Hurley 3D Embossing Folder “Sparkling Snow”
Simon Says Stamp “Christmas Wishes” Sentiment Strip
Pinkfresh Studios Navy Glitter Cardstock
Spellbinders Indigo Cardstock
Spellbinders Glimmer Foil – Silver
Nuvo Crystal Drops “Liquid Mercury”
Taylored Expressions Anti-Static Powder Tool
DMC Silver Diamant Thread
Simon Says Stamp Clear Embossing Ink
Brutus Monroe “Sterling” Embossing Powder
Heidi Swapp Mini Minc Machine (for foiling)
Wagner Heat Embossing Tool
Misti Original Stamp Positioning Tool
Anna Griffin Empress Die Cutting Machine
I started today’s card by cutting a piece of Spellbinders Indigo cardstock to measure 5”x5” and cut a piece of Spellbinders Glitter Metallic cardstock from the Treasured Cardstock collection to measure 5-1/4” x 5-1/4”. These two pieces will be used as my card front’s background.
Using the Spellbinders/Simon Hurley “Sparkling Snow” 3D Embossing Folder, I misted the 5”x5” Indigo cardstock with a little bit of water and placed it into the embossing folder and ran it through my Empress die cutting machine. I removed the cardstock from the embossing folder and, once dry, I used tape runner to adhere the 3D embossed cardstock to the front of the Silver Glitter Metallic cardstock.
I created two snowflake die cuts using the large snowflake die from Spellbinders’ “Snowflake Card Creator” die set – one was cut from a previously splattered silver and white background piece of cardstock and the other was cut from Spellbinders Matte Silver cardstock from the Treasured Cardstock collection. I placed liquid adhesive to the back side of the splattered cardstock snowflake and adhered it to the center of the embossed, indigo cardstock then placed liquid glue to the back of the matte silver metallic snowflake diecut and adhered it to the top of the last snowflake but twisted its orientation so they would be offset from one another. I carefully trimmed off any of the snowflake pieces that extended beyond my card front.
Next for the ornament. I used my Misti and Altenew’s “Lovely Ornaments” stamp and die set and placed the stamp that looks like streamers on top of a scrap piece of gold matte cardstock and picked it up with my Misti door. I inked the stamp with Simon Says Stamp’s clear embossing ink, applied a generous amount of anti-static powder to my cardstock, and stamped the impression onto the gold cardstock panel. I used Brutus Monroe’s “Sterling” embossing powder and applied it to the embossing ink, tapped off the excess, and heat set it with my heat tool. After the cardstock cooled, I used the circle die from the “Lovely Ornaments” die set to cut the gold, silver embossed cardstock with my die cutting machine. Then I used a die from the “Lovely Ornaments” set that looked almost like dripping icing and die cut it from a piece of Pinkfresh Studios’ navy glitter cardstock. I adhered the navy glitter die cut to the top of the gold ornament base using liquid glue. I took a piece of silver DMC Diamant thread and tied it into a double bow (leave the tails long) and set that aside for the moment. For the ornament topper, I wanted one that was more substantial than what came with the “Lovely Ornaments” die set, so I used the Spellbinders/Nichol Spohr “Festive Ornaments” dies and selected the two ornament topper pieces and cut the one with the base out of a scrap of silver metallic cardstock and the one with the hanger loop from some gold metallic cardstock. I glued the metallic silver die cut on top of the metallic gold ornament topper die cut and held those two together with my reverse tweezers until they dried. Once dried, I adhered the new ornament topper to the top of the navy/gold ornament and glued the silver thread bow to the top of the ornament hanger with liquid glue. While the glue was drying on the bow, I decided to add some more texture to the ornament by adding Nuvo Crystal Drops “Liquid Mercury” to each of the little dots created with the embossing of the lower half of the ornament and set the ornament aside until all components were dry.
I selected the “Sending holiday cheer” sentiment from the Simon Says Stamp’s “Christmas Wishes” sentiment strips and used silver Spellbinders Glimmer Foil to add a metallic shine to the toner sentiment strip. Once foiled, I added small, thin foam squares to the back of the sentiment strip.
I added thin foam squares to the back of the now dry ornament and adhered it to the center of my card front. I removed the release paper from the foam squares on the back of my sentiment strip and adhered it to the lower center of the card front and that completed today’s card.
I hope you enjoyed the card and found inspiration for some of your own holiday projects! Until next time… happy making!
