Snowflakes of another kind

So the group snowflake card making session worked out well.  This weekend I worked on snowflakes of another kind. 

I made a chainmaille snowflake ornament and a smaller version for an earring.  

Snowflakes continued

A few sample snowflakes 

Snowflake die cuts

I spent the morning cutting out die cut snowflakes.   I'm organizing a group cardmaking session for next week and need something fairly simple.  Next up will be embossing the card background 

Reindeer in Sweaters

I noticed that I have a few stamps with Reindeer in sweaters or scarfs - including one of my new Sizzix stamp/die sets

I also noticed that I had some paper with reindeer in scarfs...

Now I'll just have to see how I end up combining them to make something interesting.

Christmas Tri Shutter Card

While checking out Beccy's site, I found the instructions for a Tri Shutter Card.  It looked intriguing so I decided to try it.
http://beccysplace.blogspot.ca/2010/03/technique-class-trifold-cards.html

I used only red, green and ivory card stock.  Silver embossing powder and just a little bit of glitter to add a few enhancements.

Peace on Earth Card

Sometimes you need a simple card.  I wanted to use my Embossing Folder/Die Cut set

The simple card I came up with is

 And I stamped this on the inside

I kind of messed up a little on the stamping - but it still looks good.

Shaped Snowflake card

My next card was a little more involved.  I decided to use my new Sizzix Snowflake dies.  You'll have seen that I used these in a lot of my other cards as well.

I wanted to try using the largest to make a Snowflake shaped card.  It took a while - but turned out pretty nice. 

I had to cut out the big blue snowflake by hand.

Once I cut out the white for the snowflake shape - I realized I had the making of another card on my hands - so here that one is