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Freshly Made Sketches #111

Hi,

I just really liked this sketch from Freshly Made Sketches - so perfect and the ornament on it just calls out for a Christmas card. This sketch may go into my favorites file - to be used over and over again....


But for now it is the holiday theme.


I used my favorite Sizzix Embossing Folder. The snowflake is from Memory Box, but it gave me grief again. It would not cut through the glitter paper, despite all the tricks I know now - extra shimming, wax paper, running it through the Big shot in different positions and multiple times.....I just gave up and pretended I wanted all those little pieces still in there, after I fuzzy cut a fair amount of the outside.... I colored some of those with Copics - looks quite nice after all....The sentiment is Mama Elephant Merry Greetings


So hard to photograph the glitz - the closeup shows it best - it looks really pretty!



I am also linking this card with the CHNC challenge - Anything Christmas
and Simon Says Wednesday challenge - CAS

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Sherrie M. said…
Gorgeous elegant card! Looks great will all the little pieces still intact.
November 10, 2013 at 10:57 AM
Radhika said…
So perfect for the sketch Cornelia.. love the snowflake..
November 10, 2013 at 11:08 AM
Laurie Unger said…
Love the colors on this. I have found that a few of my MB dies are hard to use as well and have better luck using a lighter weight paper.
November 10, 2013 at 11:42 AM
Kathleen said…
Thanks for the lovely comment on my blog.
Stunning card. Love everything on it.
November 10, 2013 at 12:30 PM
Kathleen said…
Thanks for the lovely comment on my blog.
Stunning card. Love everything on it.
November 10, 2013 at 12:30 PM
Cathy said…
Gorgeous card Cornelia, the snowflake looks great with the pieces in. I have a metal plate I use with a lot of the MB intricate dies, I still need to do a lot of poking out but it usually works. I don't have this die though. Love your take on this sketch too, Cathy x
November 10, 2013 at 3:00 PM
Kim M said…
Beautiful card, Cornelia! Love that glittery snowflake. :-)
November 10, 2013 at 6:05 PM
Linda Suarez said…
Beautiful! I love the glitter snowflakes! Thanks for joining us this week at Freshly Made Sketches!
November 10, 2013 at 11:18 PM
Linda Callahan said…
Oh that sparkly snowflake is fabulous! Beautiful holiday card! Thanks for joining us at FMS!
November 11, 2013 at 12:53 AM
Emily Leiphart said…
Gorgeous card, Cornelia! I love the snowflake inlays and the Mama Elephant sentiment. Thanks so much for playing along with the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge!
November 12, 2013 at 10:46 PM
Hazel said…
Thanks for entering this beautiful card for my CHNC challenge extra for November - hope to see you again soon. x
November 14, 2013 at 2:57 PM
Rosmarie said…
Ach ja, Memory Box..... diese Stanzen möchte ich am liebsten alle haben!
Deine Karte ist fantastisch und so schön frostig!
November 21, 2013 at 1:24 PM
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