Snowflake Blue

Christmas Trees & Snowflakes are images that I associate with winter - probably something to do with my first 6 Christmases which were spent in Sweden; those that I remember involved skiing through the pine forests on my own small skiis. I don't remember skiing after we moved to the UK in 1967 although both my brother & Father liked nothing more than to set off for Austria to ski during the Easter Holidays.

Edited 22 Dec

I have uploaded all the photos again as the first set were not clickable for enlarging.

front of card

close-up showing dimension of
snowflakes & heat embossed tree 

close-up showing sparkle & dimension of heat
embossed snowflake background

close-up showing detail & sparkle of heat
embossed tree

close-up showing detail of tree & dimension achieved
by using 2mm foam pads for mounting 

inside of card

close-up to show paper piercing
of message panel

Recipe

Stamps Chocolate Baroque UDLSP0304 Christmas Decorations (tree) & UA6SP0267 Winter Wonderland (snowflake patterns).

Inks VersaMark watermark stamp pad with Stampendous Winter Wonderland Embossing Powder, Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink (distressing some cardstock & paper edges).

Cardstock an assortment of blues & whites plus patterned in various finishes from stash.

Punches, Dies EK Success (Iron Eagle corner), Xcut (snowflake corner - the small snowflakes are the waste from the corner), Woodware (circle); Spellbinders Shapeabitlities Sprightly Sprockets; 

The ribbon & snowflake sequins are from stash.

Challenges Entered

Everybody Art Challenge 173 - Anything Goes
Joanna Sheen Challenge 1 - Christmas Wishes