Christmas is still on my mind

How are you going with getting everything sorted for Christmas? I'm trying to get a start on cards, although I know plenty of people are ready well before now.

I've taken a week off in early December, and that's my time to do everything apart from food shopping. I'll spend a whole day present buying (I always go with a list) and then over the course of the week I'll get everything wrapped, find things that are harder to find, and hopefully I'll have some time for creating!

I found this card on Pinterest, however the person didn't have their name on it, so I can't give credit. I changed it up just slightly, however it's very similar.

I've used a couple of elements for the first time this evening - let me tell you about them.

The Foil Snowflake is the major element of the card - these are gorgeous, and come in a pack of 24 - 12 silver and 12 gold. They are so easy to use and look great on a card. The other element is a little hard to see on this card, but there is an embellishment that is a stylised cross on the front under the sentiment. These Year of Cheer embellishments come again in gold and silver, and in a couple of different shapes. You get 24 embellishments, 6 each of two designs in both colours.

I haven't changed my style at all - this is still a really easy card to make. I used a standard card size in Tranquil Tide, then I cut out the card front slightly smaller in Whisper White card. I used a piece of the Year of Cheer Designer Series Paper, and adhered that to the card front. After that I placed the Foil Snowflake onto the card, adhered with the SNAIL adhesive. I stamped the sentiment from the Snowflake Sentiment stamp set onto Whisper White cardstock, and used the Layering Circles Thinlits Dies to cut that out. I then adhered this on top of the Foil Snowflake. I then used Gold Metallic Thread to provide some interest underneath the cross embellishment, and I used a Mini Glue Dot to keep this in place.. Once the card front was complete, I adhered that to the base, and the card was finished.

I'm going to go back and make several of these as I can think of a number of people who would enjoy this card!

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