A Color Challenge for CCMC274

I have a fun interactive card to share for this week's Color challenge at Create with Connie and Mary.  First, let's talk colors.  This week we are using Raspberry Ripple, Soft Sky and Very Vanilla.

These colors are PERFECT for a snowflake card, sooooo it's a  Festive Flurry card yet again.  I am really enjoying this bundle, you can't go wrong.  The snowflake stamps are beautiful and you can die cut them to boot, what's not to love?!  I did an interactive card to mix it up a little this time, take a look.

I wanted something unusual, and this fits the bill!  It takes a little work, but totally worth it!  I found a great tutorial at Splitcoaststampers that I've been wanting to try, so a color challenge was the perfect time.  For the directions, click HERE.

The card has Raspberry Ripple for the base with a layer of Soft Sky and Very Vanilla added.  the Very Vanilla layer was embossed with the new Stylish Stripes EF.  Once the Soft Sky and Very Vanilla layers are assembled, I made the cuts through both layers for the pop up area.  The cool thing about this card is that it's a complete card.  It opens so you can write a message inside.

The snowflakes on the front and the tag are stamped using Soft Sky.  For the focal point snowflake, I blinged it up a bit.

I fussy cut the snowflake so I could layer it on the snowflake die cut from Raspberry Ripple card stock. This gives just a hint of color like a halo around the snowflake, makes it pop against the Very Vanilla card stock.  The snowflake still needed more, so I added Cherry Cobbler Dazzling Details to the ends and middle of the the snowflake.  The final bit if bling is the gorgeous Frosted Finishes Embellishment.  NOW we have a very serious focal point!  I didn't add any other colors or embellishments to the front since it has a lot going on with the secret window and the blinged up snowflake.

A tag that is hidden behind the front panel is how the hidden window appears.  The tag is Soft Sky card stock with a Soft Sky snowflake stamped on it.

I hope you enjoyed today's interactive card.  It was a design I've wanted to try for awhile and I am quite pleased with the results.  I hope you will join me for this week's challenge.  You can find all the details for it at Create with Connie and Mary.  While you are there be sure to check out the beautiful projects they previewed for the Winter Collection 2013.  They have so many gorgeous ideas to share and the Winter Collection, as with all their collections, is an amazing value.  Here's the details.

• 4 FABULOUS weeks filled with wonderful ideas just for the upcoming December Holidays!


• One of these weeks...Card "Create"tions...24 cards seen ONLY by our subscribers


• One of these weeks...Last Minute Gift ideas! 

• The projects are ONLY available to subscribers...we never show the collection projects online (ONLY the Preview Projects are shown)


• EACH project has a full downloadable PICTURE tutorial that continues all the information you need to recreate the project!


• Less than $1 per project! 

Winter Collection runs October 20 - November 16!

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