Joy to the World ... Polkadoodles styleeeeeee ...

It's inspiration week over at Polkadoodles Challenge and the theme is, as always, "Anything Goes".

Nikky and the DT have been talking about Christmas and although I struggle to make Christmas cards before November (lol), I thought I'd try and get in to the early Christmas spirit being inspired by the wonderful projects I've seen using the Regal Peacock stamp soup set. I became so inspired, I ended up making three snowflake cards ...

All my cards have also been inspired by the Elegant Nest dies (from Polkadoodles) and I have used said dies in each make. Here's a close up of my first card ...

I stamped out my design with clear ink and embossed with Nuvo silver detail embossing powder (not yet released). Next with Picked Raspberry distress ink, I coloured the snowflake and cut out using the Elegant Nest dies. Before removing from the die, I added some shading to the edges. The matt was created by joining 2 die cuts together cut from mirri card,

I then made an oval shape to match/sized my topper and cut this on my scan & cut to create the card base. As a finishing touch, I stamped the sentiment and added some silver snowflakes.

For my second card, I created the snowflake as above but this time I coloured the snowflake with Tumbled Glass distress ink. Again using the elegant nest largest die, I created my topper. Next I created a card blank using the Ribbon Gift Frame die collection.

As an extra layer, I cut another Ribbon Gift Frame in mirri card but trimmed away the edging this time. Again I added some more silver snowflakes as an embellishment.

My final card has the snowflake design starting from the bottom, (for a change), embossed in silver but coloured with Shaded Lilac distress ink. Again I have used the Elegant Nest dies but created a circle background from an oval shaped die ...

Again the same sentiment and silver snowflake embellishments. The extra little hearts on all my Christmas cards are from the waste when cutting the Elegant Nest die and just fit the design perfectly.

Thoroughly enjoyed making my trio of cards and loved how pretty they turned out. Gonna try this again but want to do a more inky background first and then add the snowflake ... ummm maybe colour with bleach this time .... oh ideas, ideas, ideas ...

Lou
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Products and links:

Polkadoodles Regal Peacock A5 stamp set	elegant nest set of 3 dies	Polka Doodles Ribbon Gift Frame	Tonic Studios Essential Dies - Layering Circles	TH Distress Ink Picked Raspberry
TH Distress Ink Tumbled Glass	TH Distress Ink Shaded Lilac	Nuvo Hybrid ink - Clear Marking	Nuvo embossing powder - Silver

Challenges I would like to share my cards in:
Christmas cards all year - anything goes
Cards Galore Encore - anything goes
Die Cut Divas - Christmas in July
Love to craft - anything goes
Card for Galz - Christmas or winter
Crafting with attitude - anything goes
Through the purple haze - anything goes