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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Snow Much Fun at Heart 2 Heart Challenges




When I saw the theme of the first Heart 2 Heart challenge of the year was snow, all I could think was "Seriously?!  Do you know how many snow flakes I made leading up to Christmas?  Well, my nephew's birthday card has penguins and snow, I can enter that."  After having to rethink my husband's birthday card, I was left with this embossed piece of Close to My Heart's Outdoor Denim cardstock that had a sprinkling of pearl embossing powder in the negative space.  As part of exploring what I can do with my new Cuddlebug (Again, thanks, Tim!), I lightly sanded it and found myself thinking of swirling wind, so I combined that piece with White Daisy cardstock by CTMH and metallic silver paper I bought at Michael's, used the CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge to cut the snowflakes, embellished it with a snowflake brad from the retired Mistletoe mini medley set that was featured in "While Supplies Last" over the summer and attached the result with pop up foam.

I could save this for next Christmas, but I think next time it snows I will send it to one of my Yankee friends who likes to complain about our lack of snow.  You know who you are.  ;)   Thank you, as always, for stopping by.  Until next time, Hansi

4 comments:

  1. This is just beautiful, Hansi (coming from the land of ice and snow...!) The sanded flourishes really do look like swirling, snowy wind, and the colour combo is perfect for a wintry look.

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  2. very pretty! thanks for playing along with H2H again!

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  3. Your card is beautiful! The snowflake is the perfect accent for those pretty swirls. Thanks SNOW much for joining us @ H2H!

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  4. This is just beautiful, makes me chilly just looking at it! I love the embossed piece!

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