Crafty Catz DT - Shaped Cards

Morning all,

Well here's to one less Friday before Christmas! I can't believe how fast this year is going. Scary really. Anyway, as it is Friday that means it's time for a new challenge over at Crafty Catz and this week our theme has been set by the lovely Beth, who would like to see shaped cards please - so no squares or rectangles at all.

We are sponsored this week by Stitchy Bear Digitals, who are offering our lucky winner $10 to spend in store

They were also kind enough to give us a couple of images to play with and I chose, like most of the team, this fabulous Christmas silhouette:

I decided to go with a star shaped card and actually once I'd worked out how to do this style of card realised how crazily simple they are. I cut the base card in heavy weight card stock and then covered it in snowflake paper that I've had for a couple of years. The snowflakes actually have a slight texture to them. Next I printed the digi and freehand cut around it, before mounting it onto a die cut circle which I'd coloured blue with chalk ink. I mounted the whole lot and finished by adding a fine layer of stickles around the circle of the image to give it a magical feel and a few gems in the centres of random snowflakes to add texture.

So that's it for me for this weeks challenge. I hope you all like it and don't forget to pop over to the blog to see the other girls fabulous creations.

Until next time, happy crafting!