The Paper Players are playing to my preference this week – silver or gold. I can’t stop making Christmas cards and I love heat embossing so it’s an easy one! I decided to go for a sophisticated look and do black and silver.

This is last year’s Festive Flurry stamp set – I had to buy it even though it was retiring because it’s so beautiful. So I used the embossing buddy before stamping the snowflake in versamark and sprinkling silver embossing powder over the card. A few sharp flicks to the back of the card got rid of the excess and the snowflake after heat embossing looked great. I cut it out using the festive flurry dies. Then I embossed the sentiment on the card (it’s from Sassy Salutations) and adhered the snowflake using dimensionals. I had tried just stamping the snowflake on the card but it wasn’t dramatic enough. I’m sure that some people won’t like black for Christmas but I like it.