Die Cut Christmas: Let it Snow

Some of the Christmas cards I've made this year have been done almost exclusively with die cuts, and the latest ones were made with the Let It Snow Frame die from Poppy Stamps. This is one of those dies that you can mix and match the inside pieces and outside pieces. I'll show you a few cards I made with this die. I also think it would be pretty with a photo of a nice snow scene in it.

This one might be my favorite of the three. I cut the Let It Snow die out of one of my panels made with shaving cream and inkers. You can see that technique here, here, here and here. This is a perfect background for this die. All of the panels were cut out with The Greetery Crimped Frame die, and then the Let It Snow die was cut by centering it in those panels. 

I cut a square of dark blue cardstock to go behind the sentiment. I used a die from Simon Says Stamp (Sparkling Snowflakes Breeze) on the dark blue panel, and put silver glitter paper behind the openings in the die. That only covered from the lower left to the upper right of the square, so I cut lots of circles (and even a couple of stars) out of the glitter paper with some punches, and glued them all down. I also added some white dots with a gel pen. 

In the next two cards, I made use of all of the pieces.

In these two cards, I used the dark blue square as the center of one and the Oxide glaze piece as center in the other. The squares are actually inlaid into the cards

The inked panel was made with Distress Oxides, using the Oxide Glaze technique on glossy caardstock. You can see this technique here, here, here and here.

On the above card, I used The Greetery Snowflake Corners dies for the corners and the snowflake. I added glitter dots from Elizabeth Craft.

In the card above, I added snowflakes cut from white cardstock and blue mirror cardstock. I used snowflake dies from Elizabeth Craft, Impression Obsession and The Greetery.

Yes, I used a lot of dies for these cards, but if you read my blog post here, where I was contemplating all of the dies I have not used, I am trying to see how well they all can be used together. I admit that my favorite cards are a combination of stamping with coloring or painting and a die cut or two; but in going through all of my dies and trying them out, I put together quite a few cards that have no stamping or coloring. They do however have interesting techniques done in the backgrounds, so if you have not seen those posts, please check them out using the links provided.

There will be more of these die cut Christmas cards coming, so please keep following. I hope you like them!

Products Used

All 3 cards:

Poppy Stamps Let It Snow Frame die 1880

The Greetery Crimped Frame die

PTI Enchanted Evening cardstock

Neenah Solar White cardstock 110#

Card #1:

Simon Says Stamp S528 Sparkling Snowflakes Breeze die

Silver glitter paper

Hole punches: 1/8", 1/4", Fiskars star punch

White gel pen

Background panel made with shaving cream and

Distress inkers: Broken China,

Faded Jeans and Speckled Egg 

(see links above for directions)

Card #2:

The Greetery Frosty Corners Dies GD-M-027

Elizabeth Craft glitter dots

For the background panel, please see above

links for directions

Card #3

Elizabeth Craft 1409 Ornate Snowflakes

Elizabeth Craft glitter dots

Elizabeth Craft silver snowflake peel-offs

Impression Obsession die 100-F Small Snowflake Set

Memory Box blue mirror cardstock