TIME OUT #45 Reminder

Have you played along with our Inspired By Words challenge at Time Out yet? Well there's still time - we are looking for cards inspired by this fabulous quote:
 

Snowflakes are Winter's Butterflies

In addition to the fabulous Design Team cards, we are also joined by the super-creative Ashwini - her blog Experiments With Card Making Etc  so be sure to stop by and see her beautiful designs.

Here is how I was inspired by the words:

For my card(s) today, I dug deep into the back of my craft closet and dusted off my Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist. I was so happy when I found that they still sprayed since it has been years (yes - years) since I last used them.

I started the card by stamping the MFT snowflakes in Versamark and heat embossing them in detail silver powder. I then used the matching dies to cut some masks from Post It tape that I placed over the snowflakes. I also added some very skinny pieces of Post-It tape to mask the strings. Once masked, I used the Glimmer Mist to add some colour to the top of the card front - I tried to focus on the upper left corner but I wasn't always successful. I removed the mask, waited for it to dry and then die cut the panel with a MFT stitched rectangle die, and added the machine stitching in silver thread. The greeting is from Hero Arts - white heat embossed on a strip of vellum and mounted on a strip of glitter cardstock.

Because I had mounted the stamps on my MISTI, I decided to make a whole set of these cards using different colours of mist:

And the envelopes...

As long as I have been making cards, I haven't worried about the envelopes but on Black Friday, I decided to buy the WeRMemoryKeepers envelope punch board and I am now a convert! I'm pretty sure that I spent more time making envelopes than cards this weekend - I have finally found a use for all that 12x12 DP from my scrapbooking days! Among my envelope creations wereenvelopes for each of the snowflake cards - each featuring a matching misted liner.

I will link up to a few challenges:

• Addicted to Stamps and More - holiday cards
• Christmas Card Challenges - Anything Goes
• The Paper Players - Tic-Tac-Toe (I'm going with Blue-Shine-Embossing)
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Let It Snow

Thanks so much for stopping and be sure to take some Time Out to be inspired by words!
Jill