Happy Friday, everybody! It’s been a week, let me tell you. Between a busy work schedule, an unexpected interruption in my SSP Pinterest account, and a failed attempt at today’s card, I’m ready for a refresh! And it’s going to be the perfect weekend for it as we enjoy the first real feel of fall weather here in N. Texas. It’s due to be a glorious weekend to be outside.

But on to crafting. This week, we’re pulled our snowflakes from the crafty stash to create our projects. Today’s card combines the Snowy Delights dies with the Greetings for You ephemera to create our lovely white wonderland.

But I just have to share a little about today’s card idea and failure to launch first. Because guess what? Every crafter has good ideas that don’t execute.

I gave you a little tease that today’s project was going to be a snowflake childhood throwback. And in my mind’s eye, I was going to use some current dies in the stash to create the look of the paper snowflakes we used to make as kids. You know the ones where we would fold the paper and cut shapes out of the edges to create unique snowflake designs? Well, I was hoping to do that with a quarter panel and my dies. And I really wanted it to look like a postage stamp to boot. And no matter how many placements and combinations of the dies I tried, I kept ending up with big sections coming apart – like the photo above. I decided to table the idea for now – I won’t be deterred from getting this one eventually *grin* – and move on with creating with the actual diecut shapes I had instead of using the sheet of negatives. And that’s how we arrive at today’s card design.

This is a super simple color palette – white as snow. So we get started with a sheet of white cardstock. All of the snowflakes are cut from a quarter sheet of white using the Snowy Delights dies. I used the larger detail die as the star of the show and used 2 of them in opposing corners of the card front, allowing them to overlap the edges of the card. After adhering the larger flakes to the card front, I snipped off the overhanging edges with my paper snips. I filled in the gaps of white space in the other corners with the smaller, less detailed flakes. I chose a small sentiment – merry & bright – from the Greetings for You ephemera pack and adhered it over some gold trim. To finish things off with the perfect amount of twinkle, I added Wink of Stella to the round elements of each of the snowflakes and then also added a few iridescent faceted gems in the white space between the smaller flakes.

Don’t you just love this tone-on-tone look? It is super sparkly in person (I’ll have to remember to add a little video to the Instagram post later so you can see it for yourself) and it just makes me smile.

I saw the coolest idea in my inspiration searching recently that I can’t wait to try out for you tomorrow. I hope you’ll drop in and see what that’s all about!

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