Simple Snowflake

 

Here's another shameless rip-off card.  I saw this one on Pinterest from I'm in Haven when I was looking for different ways to use the Funky Snowflake Die from Simon Says Stamp.  I loved the idea of using the negative space with stripes.  It's hard to tell from the picture, but the dimensional stamps really add....well, dimension to the card.  I did not have a single striped paper that I like, but I played with this digital paper until I had the stripes the size I wanted.  The paper is from Summer Driggs 'Believe' paper pack (of course it is, I use it so much I may qualify as a stalker at this point). The sentiment was just printed on the paper before I cut it out using a font I have installed.

Have your Elf a very merry Christmas!

Technically, this little guy isn't an elf.  He is a Swedish pixie, one of the Nøël desTømtes.  There are a bunch of illustrations to be used as coloring pages here and here.  I, of course, have used him as a stamp.  There are many more so I will probably be doing several cards with him as the star.  I used the 'Believe' papers from Summertime Designs again as well as one of her elements for the tag.  I just added the script and printed/cut it on my Silhouette.  You cannot see it in this picture (or any others I took) but I used some snowflake stickers I had laying about as well as stickles on the main snowflake he cut out.  Looks really pretty at night under a small lamp, no so much in the Florida sunshine.

Spectrum Noir markers used:
Skin (FS2, FS3, PP1), Hat & Shoes (DG3, DG2,DR7, DR5), Scissors (BGR1, BGR3) Shadow [in beard as well](BGR1)

Snowflake

 

I really can't stand photos where I have to use flash.  In this case, the blue square was embossed with plaid and it couldn't be seen in any other photo.  I just used my score pad to make the plaid pattern.