Hi there and welcome to February! My header for this month is my two beehives in the snow. It was taken a couple of days after we received almost two feet of the white fluffy stuff! It was a bright, sunny day and although it was quite chilly, the bees were taking advantage of the sun and came out and took "cleansing flights". Bees won't poop inside the hive. If you look closely at the front of the hives, you can see several little black specks - those are a few of the bees out relieving themselves. A good sign for me that my bees are still alive! Just like us - they are eagerly awaiting the warmer days of Spring!
My card today for the Christmas Craft Creations design team is ironically "Let it Snow", made back in November, when we hadn't yet received the white stuff!!
The February Challenge theme is Blue and Silver.
I chose to paint with embossing powders this time! I ran the snowflake borders through my machine with a scrap piece of navy cardstock.
The two borders were stuck down along the top and bottom edges of a piece of white cardstock, to act as a stencil.
Versamark was then applied all over the cardstock. After applying the Versamark the "stencils" were removed. 7 different blue hues of embossing powders were ready for action!
I applied the different embossing powders one by one on to the Versamarked panel. I didn't bother to keep them separate, and now have a one of a kind embossing powder for another project!
Using my tweezers the panel was then heat embossed.
Silver Lightning embossing powder was then applied to a Versamarked Joy Crafts snowflake and was heat embossed.
The Tonic "Let it Snow" die was then die cut from silver cardstock.
The snowflake was attached to the embossed panel with a silver brad and the sentiment was attached with foam mounting strips. This was then layered to a piece of silver cardstock before being attached to a white card base.
Hope you have enjoyed my share with you today and that you will be inspired to join in with us over at Christmas Craft Creations with your own "blue and silver" project?
Below are the products that I used for my card today:
Snowflake Border die
Versamark
Background embossing powders: Carribean, By the Lake,
Pool side, Ice Rink, Bracing Blue, Blue Silver, Electric Blue
Snowflake die cut - Silver Lightning on top of Bracing Blue
Tonic Let it Snow die
Joy Crafts Snowflake die (6002/2020)
Silver Mirror Cardstock
I'd like to join in the following challenges with my project:
The Holly and the Ivy Challenge #87: Anything Goes
Dies R Us Challenge # 162: Use a company die that DRU carries
World Wide Open Design Team Challenge #01: Anything Goes
Christmas Crafts All Year Round February Challenge: Something that starts with C/and or D (Chilly Days)
Until next time stay warm and safe,
Shona
