Snow Much Fun

You may already know my feelings on the subject of snow.  I don't like it! Or to be more precise, I don't like it on the roads and pavements - I think it looks wonderful everywhere else, but as we don't usually have much snow in England we're not really geared up to dealing with it and it always causes havoc when it puts in an appearance.  Which it has over the last couple of weeks.   We had only the lightest dusting here but I was still worried till Hubby was home safe - and I've been ringing to check up on my rellies in Northumberland, where the snow has been pretty bad even right on the coast where they live.

Anyway, this week it should have been Asia Wu's turn to set the challenge for the Daring Cardmakers, but the snow rather disrupted their house-moving plans and their schedule rather went to pot.  So instead of being snugly ensconced in their new house, complete with phones and web access all sorted out they find themselves in that horrible internet-less limbo-land this week instead.  So a quick shuffle of our calendar and an "emergency" challenge was called for.  It seemed right in the circumstances to choose a snowy theme!

Snow Much Fun

Any sort of card (Christmas, Winter Birthday, Winter Sports Fan etc) but it has to have a snowy theme.

I went for a snowflakes theme - mainly because I'd indulged in yet another Christmas/Winter paper collection.  oooops!

 Materials:

All papers; Bo Bunny "A Gift of Love", 
the snowflakes are all cut from papers in the set too.

Gorgeous Snowflake charm from Creative Treasures,  Blue satin ribbon (John Lewis), Silver, Pale Blue and Royal Blue gems from Anita's Gem Wheel. Blue and Silver metallic threads. Lots of Glamour Dust. Sentiment pc generated

 A close up of the glittery bits:

While I had the papers out I used some of the scraps to make some blue versions of the minimalist cards I showed yesterday using the Cuttlebug minis die.  I think these cards are my favourites for this year - hopefully I've now made all the Christmas cards I need - but as usual it's the ones I make last that I like best!  Which is why there's no point my starting to make them in January!

 And finally another mini dies card using Websters Pages

Next on my Crafty To-Do list - if the cards are really all done, are boxes and notepads, oh, and a card for my hubby needs to be made too. I hope you're all getting there with your Christmas stuff, its getting to that "aaaggghhh I don't think I can fit it all in" sort of time, isn't it?

Don't forget to check out the snowy cards over on The Daring Cardmakers Blog - the winner of our Flourish With A Bling sponsored dare is announced today.  Please do join in this week if you can, we'd love to see your snowy cards.

Thanks for visiting today