Today’s card started out completely different than what I originally intended. I literally hated the first idea & threw it in the trash. I’d tried some embossing paste on a stencil that stuck so much my cardstock ripped in several places when removing the stencil -raving pieces stuck to the stencil & a big mess. UGH!
Second attempt, same stencil/mask and a whole new idea later, I created this sweet Christmas Snowflake Mini Slimline Card. for my card front, I started with a piece of Basic White Cardstock (#159276) cut at 6” x 6-1/2” plus One of the Adorning Designs Decorative Masks (#156328) from the Jul-Dec Mini Catalog. I used Smoky Slate Ink (#147113) plus a Blending Brush (#153611), and very lightly colored in the tops of several snowflakes. Next I used Balmy Blue Ink (#147105) filling in the remaking snowflakes. To add some sparkle, I used some Colorbox Silver Pigment Ink on some of the snowflake centers. I adhered this card front to the Basic Gray sheet from the Silver Foil 12x12 Specialty Pack(#156457) that was cut at 6-1/8” x 3-3/8”. I die-cut the spray of snowflakes from the retired Snowfall Thinlits Dies (#149742) plus Three single snowflakes, arranged them & then adhered to the card front using liquid glue. Next, I used one of my favorite ribbons, wrapping around the card base & tied in a simple square knot; the ribbon is: the 1-1/2” Metallic Mesh Ribbon (#153550). Last, but not least, I added some “bling” using some Opal Rounds (#154289) and some Pearl Basic Jewels (#144219). I do love me some pretties!
The card front was popped up & adhered using Foam Adhesive Strips (#141825) a piece of Balmy Blue Cardstock (#146982) that was cut at 6” x 6-3/4”, scored at 3-3/8”.
The sentiment is from Poinsettia Petals (#153475), stamped in Memento Black Ink onto a scrap of Balmy Blue cardstock & fussy-cut using my Paper Snips Scissors ((#103579). The sentiment is adhered to a backing that consists of a piece of white cardstock cut at 3-1/16” x 11/16” adhered to a small piece of the Silver Foil cut at 3-1/4” x 11/16”. The sentiment is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals (#104430) to stick down on either side of the ribbon knot.
I think this is a sweet little Christmas card, what do you think? Do you like slimline cards, do you like the mini slimline version, have you made any slimline cards yet?
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