Oooo Sparkly!

I'm really digging this card. It's all sparkly and pretty. I'm starting to come around to glitter by way of glitter embossing powder. I love embossing. I think the glitter stays on better.

-Sylvan

Snowflake card

This is one of those cards that I love, but worry that it looks anorexic. I have a personal rule that a card should have no more than four design elements incorporated, and that is the absolute maximum. After that, it starts to look obscenely busy, in my opinion.

I usually end up with three, three and a halfish.

I count patterned paper as a design element all on it's own. Solid coloured background paper counts as a half point, as well as any solid coloured papers that I use for matting or accenting. Dimensionals and glitter are another half point each. Ribbon counts as one, as well as any stamping. Just to give you an idea. ;)

So this is already three and a half point card. Four if we count embossing, which some people might.

But I think if I added something like a "Winter Wishes" or something it would take away from it. But it looks like it's missing something. I played around with moving my embossed snowflake around, and I ended up liking it the most right there beside the ribbon.

Opinions from the peanut gallery? :)

See you next time!

-Sylvan

Another Christmas Card. For Serious.

This is one of those cards that doesn't quite look like the picture. My card is actually a fair bit darker.

I used a clear gold embossing powder, and I'm not nuts about how it turned out. I may have overheated it, or I may have not used enough. Though it looks fantastic in the picture now that I glance up at it while I'm typing. Maybe I should give it another chance. :)

Until next time, my friends!

-Sylvan

It's A Jaunty Toque!

I'm pretty excited, I'm going to a  craft sale tomorrow with the cards I have. I have several cards that I haven't posted here yet.

I've done seven different cards this week(and planning to do more tonight!), and I'll post a new card every day for the next little while. :)

I decided my front step is the ideal place to take photos today so I could get more natural light. This is a dark burgundy card with a dimensional toque stamped in dark green on and a shimmery translucent white ribbon.

For the next time I make this card, I think I'll get a glue pen so I can put glitter on the pom pom. I think that would look cute and jazz it up a little. :)

Until next time!

-Sylvan

Christmas Card

I tried to make a man-friendly Christmas card. I'm a sucker for patterned scrapbook paper, so I used this plaid paper, and embossed the tree in silver on the green, and matted it on white. Though it seems to be a little pink in this photo...

Cheers!
-Sylvan