CE Wednesday...

Happy Wednesday,

Well the new design team has I believe been chosen so I guess we are all waiting to see who made the team for the next year!  I'll let you know the announcement as soon as I know!  Back to this weeks design for my place on the design team and it's Christmas ( well we all need as much inspiration as [possible especially as its November already!)

This month we are using a selection of Sue Wilson's dies for Creative Expressions and I have chosen the Frosty mini background and the classic poinsettias for this weeks card.

I stared by cutting the background in coconut white foundation card.  Next I made a frame for the background using Sues double pierced squares die range.  I cut a larger frame using dies 3
and 7 in rich red foundation card .  Next I embossed dies 6, 5 and four in coconut white and cut the frame out using dies 6 and 4 this gives a stunning embossed frame with additional piercing embossed into it.

I foam mounted this white frame over the red one and mounted the frosty background behind this.  The frosty background is rectangular so I cut the excess off to make it into the square she.  I feel its always important to remember that you don't need to use a die straight as it cuts you can use them in so many different ways!

I then stamped the shaded poinsettia using red geranium archival ink.  I cut them all out using the matching classic poinsettia die and shared them using a smoothie and the same ink ( I couldn't find my scarlet woman couture cloud)

I made up the Flowers and added a mini gold dazzler as a centre I then grouped these together with a few holly sparks I cut in Brunswick and pastel green foundation card.  I added berries to the holly in the spaces provided using red apply twinkles from cosmic shimmer.

Finally I made up the card as shown with a layer cut with the largest die in the double pierced set ( these really have become my go to die set) and a few layers of the red.

To see what the rest of the team have come up with then click HERE and leave a comment on there if you have time!

Back tomorrow with the first of my samples using the NEW Craft dies from Creative Expressions designed by Sue Wilson

Enjoy...