Snowy Christmas

Happy Friday!!!  It's time for a new challenge from the Cut It Up Challenge Blog.  This week, the challenge is: Use more than one die cut.

Here is my card for your inspiration:

As always, I was looking to create a quick card (I just can't seem to get myself together enough to have time to actually spend creating!) and this one fit the bill.  I looked through my stash of new(ish) dies and stamps that is sitting on my desk and found this gorgeous snowflake frame die from Lawn Fawn and knew I definitely wanted to use it.  As I went to my other desk to use my die cutting machine, I saw this commercially produced Christmas card front in one of my other stashes and knew it would be perfect to go behind my snowflake frame and it was!  Then I die cut "Christmas" out of gold mat card stock and "merry" out of black card stock (twice, so I could stack them together for a bit more dimension) and glued everything in place.  Quick, easy, and quite stunning in real life, I think.  I didn't add any embellishments as I thought there was enough going on without them.  In hindsight, I wish I had placed a layer of vellum over the background picture so the greeting would stand out a bit better, but I didn't, so . . . this is what I ended up with.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you will hop over to the Cut It Up blog for the full details of the challenge and to see what the rest of the Design Team has created. 

Supplies:

Dies: Lawn Fawn snowflake cover plate die (unfortunately, I don't see it on their website); Picket Fence Studios "Merry Christmas Word Dies"

Challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday--trees

Penny's Challenge #606--anything goes

Little Red Wagon #827--H is for Holidays

As You Like It--favorite: square or not (I almost always create an A2 sized rectangle card because you can get two card bases out of one sheet of 8x11 inch card stock.  That makes it more economical for me and I can easily get envelopes to fit.)

Cards Galore Challenges #140--anything goes

Die Cut Divas--anything goes

Moving Along with the Times #182--sentiment as the focus

Word Power--anything goes with the sentiment at the focus