Rudolph Day - March 2014

Yep, it's that time again. Time to make two Christmas Cards and drop by Sarn's blog, Stamping for Pleasure. On the 25th of each month, Sarn sponsors Rudolph Days. You have from the 25th untill the end of the month to link up two Xmas cards.  You can have two photos on your post or showcase both cards on one photo...whatever you chose...but both cards have to be on the same post!

My first card is designed to suit the March Moodboard at Two Peas In a Bucket. The colours this month are soft and sort of dreamy. Checked my stash and found these snippets of EP Tis the Season for the background papers and set them onto a pretty textured and pearlized aqua card stock mat.. They were not quite big enough so I fitted a scallopy  K&Co grey border piece to fill the gap. I quite like the look of it so must remember to mimic this look in the future. Now, I'm not good at remembering, so I might need reminding!!!

The quote is from a Project Life sheet of quote cards,  that I double matted with auqa and teal textured and pearilized cardstock. Two K&Co silver and white snowflakes and two aqua glittered foam snowflakes finished off the design. The bottom snowflake seemed too small, so I tucked a dollar store shimmery fabric snowflake behind it. I have a drawer full of these and use them often. Sprinkled a few teensy diamonds here and there and it was done. Here is a close up of the layered snowflake...

In spite of my resolve to finish the inside of my cards as I make them, I am posting this card without that step. It has been a hellish couple of weeks and I just have not got down to the scrapbook room to finish it yet. I will get it done before shelving this card.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Rudolph Days - must be Christmas
2. Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge Extra - must be Christmas
3. Pixies Crafty Workshop - must use snippets
4. MFP Christmas Card Challenge - must be Christmas
5. Holly Jolly Christmas - Bingo, mine is Blue, free  and snowflakes

My second card is from a crafty day with my neighbour, Lisa. I do not have manufacturer names for this one as it was her day to design and make the card kit. I am really happy with it and loved her design and paper/embellishment selections. This was a fun card to make as it is so feminine and girly! I think I will give it to my girlfriend that has lost her husband. She will totally enjoy the girlyness of it!

We created diamond corners with some row of mini diamonds that Lisa had in her stash . I quite like the look of them.  The sticker in the center of the snowflake and also the dove, are from the same manufacturer. The embellishments were a combination of mat and mirri card. The dove was a wee bit marred (as can happen with mirri) so I added three tiny red diamond to hide the wee scratchy mark! The pink ribbon is a velvet one and provides a texture contrast between the  sheen of the mirri and the diamond glitz of the glittered outer piece of card.

I did manage to finish this one...but you will have a chuckle over how I did it...Yes, Yes, I know that the finished pieces usually go on the bottom half of the inner card. Somehow I managed to dent the card itself, so I used the extra paper to cover up that booboo. Luckily Lisa had those pretty sentiment dies for the bottom half. I will use a rub-on for the sentiment on the die.

No recipes tonight, as I have already given you the info already for the first card and have no info for the second!

I am entering these cards in the following challenges

1. Rudolph Day - must be Christmas
2. Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge Extra - must be Christmas
3. Pixies Crafty Workshop - must use snippets
4. Marks Finest Papers Christmas Card C|hallenge - must be Christmas