As I’ve mentioned a lot lately, last weekend I went to a crop with my friend Julia and my sister. One of the fun items there is that you get a goody bag filled with products from Stampin’ Up!. There are always some embellishments – which you may notice that I rarely use. I feel that they may look okay on a card but that they don’t actually add anything to a clean and simple card. But when my goody bag contained winter wonderland embelishments, I decided to try to build a card around it. I caused hilarity after declaring this when five minutes later, I said that perhaps I’d put the embellishment back in the box. Thus encouraged, I persevered and I think this card is better for the embellishment. It took a fair amount of encouragement from Caro, Jill, Jess and Barb, so thanks for that.

Here’s a close up of the embellishments:

I started the card by embossing the sentiment in silver (don’t forget the embossing buddy); this is from the Stampin’ Up! Flurry of wishes stamp set. It’s a photopolymer set so it’s ultra easy for place everything where you want it. Definitely my favourite type of stamp although I do love the stamp-a-ma-jig.  After heat embossing the silver powder, I stamped a number of the snowflakes and heat embossed them in silver too. Then came the tricky part – I’d originally decided to have the ornament next to the sentiment, then I wondered perhaps if the card was better without it at all. After deliberation and other people’s opinions, I finally decided that it looked best – and was an addition to the card – on the centre of the snowflake. Don’t worry, I’m not going to go crazy and start adding embellishments all over the place, but it was an interesting challenge. I have the reindeer paper clips, I’ll have to try to make a card with them. They are really cute – here’s a close up:

It has to be done, right?

See you tomorrow,

Liz