Festive Friday

Good Friday Morning Ladies,

I hope that you are all well and are relaxed ready to enjoy the weekend.

I had a lovely afternoon with Sue yesterday,
which was a welcome distraction from all of the worries, we were too busy chatting and looking at ways to solve a problem in my craftroom, we bounced some great ideas off of each other and Paul, so we'll see if anything works!

Now onto today's card, last week at the NEC I was looking for this Snow Globe for, made by 'Precious Marieke', I saw it at a couple of different stands at different priced but in the vast muddle I couldn't remember where it was at the best price, I also wasn't prepared to PAY for a guide to the show, which had advertising in so the cost would have been more than covered by that!  It makes me so cross when Big Companies too you off!
Anyway, long story short, I didn't get it but Sue did, so she bought it today for me to play with.
You probably can't tell from the photograph but this is a 'Shaker Card', I folded a piece of A4 white card in half and burnished the fold, I then placed the die very slightly over the fold, so that the cut line was above the fold of the card, this left a small hinge which gives us an actual card base.  I then die cut another Snow Globe just a single one this time and glued it over the card base, hiding the little bit we had cut off while creating the card base.  I then die cut one more and used the inside circle die to cut an aperture in the centre of the globe.
I die cut again using acetate to create a window, I glued this to the front piece of the card.  I took some foam tape and built up a couple of layers around the edge of the circle.  I then die cut another inside circle in Night Of Navy card, then I cut the Precious Marieke 'Bauble' which is a pretty Christmas snowy village scene, in white and popped it onto the Night Of Navy background, sticking this whole piece to the centre of the base card. I dusted over both the acetate and Christmas scene with my anti static bag to try and prevent the glitter from sticking, I then added a little wet glue to the foam tape to help it wiggle into place and stuck my two pieces together to form the 'shaker'.
I had a Brittania die that said 'Silent Night ' and thought that fitted the scene perfectly so i cut that in Night Of Navy too.
It was tricky trying to pick up the sparkle on the camera but it is definitely there and looks quite effective.
It felt good being back in my craft room and better still I got to uphold my promise!

Sophie and Lucy get home from Devon today, it's been so quiet without them, I am looking forward to a hug!

I hope you all have a good day,

Love and hugs

Sandra
xxxxxx