Another
busy day today but not very much accomplished on the quilting. Joe’s cousin and
his wife stopped in for a visit this morning…always a good visit and lots of
laughs with them; groceries and a couple errands done this afternoon; and a
little bit of quilting. I woke up at 6:30 this morning, Joe at 6:45 and neither
one of us could get back to sleep so we got up early….an early start and still
didn’t get anything extra done. If I didn’t start to read my book while having
a second coffee I suppose I would get more accomplished but reading is so
relaxing.
We
are in for some more cold and snowy weather which inspires the making Christmas
cards for sure. Here is another blue and silver one.
This
time I cut the blue cardstock with a smaller Sizzix ornament die; then cut just
the silver strips and glued them on. After I had the silver tops glued on I
decided they looked blah so I ran them through the Swiss Dot embossing folder
leaving the silver tops hanging out the edge so it wouldn’t emboss them. Then I
very lightly ran silver ink over the top just touching the tops of the embossed
dots. The white piece of cardstock was then run through the Cuttlebug snowflake
embossing folder and the edges were inked with a matching blue ink and just
touched a few of the snowflakes, but not all of them. The background paper came
from Paper Wishes and I die cut out the centre of it to use to hold the
sentiment on the inside. Last year when I ordered some things from Paper Wishes
they had a bundle of about 25 sheets of this pretty blue paper for a dollar or
two so I bought a bundle…it’s just paper, not cardstock but I love the colour
of it. The ornaments are attached with dimensional glue dots and the silver
cords are peel-offs (Dazzles) from Paper Wishes. The sentiment, which is silver
although it looks gold in the photo, is another peel-off. The label was die cut
and while it was in the die I used a Q-tip to add the blue to the embossed
parts. I still have some blue cardstock
left over so come back next week for more cards.
That’s
all for a cold Friday, November-14-14
Cheers
Violet
Very pretty card! Love the embossing. Thank you for joining us at Merry Monday!
ReplyDeleteThe little squiggly glitter in the center of each ornament looks great and love the embossed background! Thanks for playing Merry Monday!
ReplyDeleteI like how you sponged the embossing to make it pop and the pretty ornaments you created. Thanks for sharing at Merry Monday.
ReplyDeleteVery pretty card, Violet! Love the ornaments and the embossing! Pretty colors too! Thanks for playing along with us this week over at Merry Monday! :)
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