These cards highlight another die from the Simon Says Stamp DieCember® release. (See the whole release here.)

Techniques:

• I pulled out some sheets of Spellbinders die cutting glitter foam I’d gotten at a local store one time, and thought they’d be perfect to try with some dies for a festive card or two. Have you tried these? They really do cut amazingly smoothly with the thin wafer dies. (I cut mine on a Spellbinders Platinum 6 machine, but I’m sure it will work on most.)

• Because I had the bright and sparkly snowflakes (jacks), I wanted to keep the background monochromatic and white as a background for those. To keep it interesting, and on theme, I used a cover die to cut white cardstock - creating great texture and pattern detail to place on the white card front. Before I glued it on, I sprayed the die cut panel with shimmer spray so it has great interest, and complements the glittery snowflakes well.

• With all the pattern, shape, and sparkle on the card I knew the greeting needed to be a more simple black and white. I chose this nice hand lettered script style one because it is compact, and also provides a nice organic contrast to the geometric shapes on the rest of the card design.
  
  

Techniques:

• As I was die cutting the Bundle of Jacks die, I noticed the negative shapes created inside the ring of jacks. I felt it had a snowflake feel to it, so I decided to make some cards with those pieces.

• The Star Lattice embossing folder created a good coordinating background. The shapes are similar, and the pattern is much smaller than the snowflakes I was placing on top, so the two work together well.

• I decided a very simple and subtle greeting was going to be best on this card. It didn’t need a lot of contrast or anything bold—I had enough bold with the pattern and texture and bright hot colors.

• A few diagonal stripes of cardstock help provide a graphic ground all the snowflake pattern from the die cuts and the background.

Colors:

• cardstock: Concord & 9th Dragonfruit, Sweet Pea, Poppy, and Lemongrass. Spellbinders glitter foam (pink and red).

Techniques:

• This card uses the same “scraps” from the Bundle of Jacks die as card 2, but this time I did a more traditional symmetrical layout on a slimline card.

• To add some decorative detail around the edges, I used the Grand Pixie Snowflake wafer die. See the detail image below to see how I positioned the snowflake die cut to use the tips in the corners of the card and on the right and left sides to fit between the glitter foam snowflakes.

• I selected three of the pearl-colored gems from the Pawsitively Dazzling Gems to use in the centers of the three foam snowflakes, and added the greeting in matte silver cardstock.

Colors:

• cardstock: Simon Says Stamp Sage. Spellbinders glitter foam (Bright Green, Light Pink, and Teal).

I have at least one more card I’ll be adding in here. Possibly more.

Thank you for visiting! Keep an eye out for more inspiration from this DieCember® release!

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