Creative Folds at Holly Jolly

This week Paige is the hostess, and she's asked us to make a card using a creative fold.  I chose to do a diamond fold card.  It's the first time for me to try this fold. I used the retired set serene snowflakes to create my card. I used the colors of Pool Party, Regal Rose and Crumb Cake.  To add just a bit of sparkle, I used some dazzling details in the center of the snowflakes on the side panels.
Thanks for looking
Cindy

I will also enter this card into the following challenges

Delicious Doodles.  More than one fold
Christmas Stamping All Year Long List to Santa ( Card Stock, Dazzling Details Glitter , Stamps, Ink. Embellishments)
Crimbo Crackers: No Designer Paper

Snowflakes again

Here is another card using Snowflakes, I liked how the first one turned out, but wanted to take the card up a notch, so this is what I came up with. I like the ornament done in the crumb cake ink, kind of reminds me of the brushed gold ornaments you can buy in the store. I'll also add this into the Winter Wonderland Challenge
Items Used:
Stamps: Serene Snowflakes, Short and Sweet
Inks: Night of Navy, Crumb Cake
Card Stock: Night of Navy, Crumb Cake, Whisper White
Accessories: Jewel Brad, Northern Flurries Die, Big Shot, Night of Navy 5/8 in Satin Ribbon, glue dots,

Snowflake Wonder

Here is a card I did for the challenge at Winter Wonderland, The theme for this week is snowflakes, which I love to use on Christmas cards. I made the ornament by making a stencil with the ornament punch onto a post it note. Sponged on the color, then stamped the snowflake onto it. It was sponged with Marina Mist and Bashful blue. After the layer was done, I sprayed it with Vanilla Smooch, but really hard to pick up in the photo, but it is very shimmery in real life.
Items Used:
Stamps: Serene Snowflakes Tree Trimming, All Holidays
Card stock: Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Marina Mist
Ink: Marina Mist, Bashful Blue, Crumb Cake
Accessories: Ornament Punch, vanilla smooch
Thanks for looking.
Cindy

Abundant Snowflakes

Here is a card I did for this weeks mashup over at Friday mashup, the theme this week is snowflake. I love the way this card turned out
Thanks for looking
Cindy

Items Used.
Stamps: Serene snowflakes from Stamping Up
             Many merry messages from Hero Arts
Card Stock, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla
Ink: Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, and Soft Suede
Accessories:  Brad, very vanilla ribbon, snail adhesive, glue dot, dimensionals.

Double Gatefold Card

Haven't been doing a lot this week due to a problem with seeing, I've got what is called iritis, it is an inflamation of the iris part of the eye, I'm on cyclogel and prednisone drops for it, which is helping, but it takes time. I seen the specialist today and instead of taking the prednisone drops every hour its now every two hours and I go back to see him next week. So it's difficult to concentrate on anything with it causing my vision to blur.

This is a double gate fold card that I did today. The front is the first picture shown, then the second is the inside after you open the front, and the last picture which has the shadow is the inside with the verse.
The outside is done with the serene snowflake set, the inside is done with the snow swirled set, The saying says: May the true spirit of Christmas fill your heart with peace, your home with love, the other words underneath is Season's Greetings from the snow swirled set. The designer paper is from the Merry Moments set. All the stamping was done with versa mark and embossed with Gold embossing powder. and there is a gold ribbon on the outside to tie it all together. The card stock used is very vanilla and old olive. Also used the eyelet border punch on old olive strips and attached to inside panel with snail adhesive.
Thanks for looking.
Cindy

Big on Christmas

For this card I used two different stamp sets, and some pearl ink and markers.
First I stamped snowflakes from the serene snowflakes using the pearl ink , then I also dabbed it on the tag, then stamped the tag using stazon ink. I then colored in the tag using markers: ballet blue, basic black, pumpkin pie, ruby red and garden green. Added the ribbon from my stash and the card was done. This was done for the stamptacular sunday challenge which said to use a tag on anything. I like there challenge as it's something different each week.
Thanks for looking.
Cindy