Folk Snowflake
The December 2024 Pinkfresh Challenge Theme is Magical Holiday and the color palette is Mermaid Cove, Cherry Blossom, Berrylicious, Sunkissed, and Spruce Tips. For this card I opted for the theme and a more restrained palette.
I had a think about what makes the holidays magical in a cardmaking context. For me it’s how we tend to pull out all the stops when it comes to holiday cards. There’s lots of glitter and shine! So I set out to make a holiday card that goes a bit overboard with that. It’s using holographic and green foil, as well as glitter cardstock. I also added two kinds of embellishments just to be extra.
Folk Snowflake
I started by stenciling the Pinkfresh Folk Snowflake in Mermaid Cove, Spruce Tips and Paradise on Hammermill. On all three stencils I blended heavier toward the center and faded out toward the periphery. Then I die cut the snowflake and stacked some Accent Opaque behind it.
Next I created a shadow layer for the snowflake by tracing the outside of the die on the back of Recollections White Glitter Cardstock. I fussy cut the shadow layer and adhered the snowflake with foam tape.
Sentiment
I stamped one of the sentiments from the Folk Snowflake Product Suite in Spruce Tips and cut it out with the coordinating die. Then I stacked some Accent Opaque behind it.
Background
For the background I used the Pinkfresh Snowflakes Cover Plate that I cut from Recollections Holographic Cardstock. Behind it I layered teal cardstock from my scraps bin.
I created the frame by foiling the Pinkfresh Decorative Frames with Spellbinders Green Glimmer Hot Foil. Then I cut out my frames with the coordinating die and stacked a few layers of Accent Opaque behind it.
Once I had cut down my layered background, I was able to glue the frame down on it.
Assembly
I added the framed background to my white cardbase. Then I glued the layered snowflake on top. I popped up the sentiment on some ⅛” foam tape and placed it in the lower half of the snowflake. Finally I added some Pinkfresh Clear Drops in the color Ice and a few snowflake sequins to my snowflake.