First & Last

The challenge at Crafty Cardmakers is to post the first card you made and the newest card you've made. This isn't the first card I made. But it is the first card I posted and the first card I have a photo of. The card I made was just a simple birthday card. This card was made before I stared stamping. It was so weird to look back and see just how much my card style has changed during the past year.This is my newest card. I used Magnolia's Snowy Hug. I colored the image using crayola and prisma colored pencils. The sketch I used is from The Sweet Stop. I used the color combination of aqua, dark aqua and white. My card base is aqua that is backed in white and backed again in dark aqua. I backed the image the same way. The strip of cardstock behind the image is white embossed using a Cuttlebug embossing folder (dots) and then I backed it in dark aqua and then in white. I punched two strips of cardstock, one white and one dark aqua, behind the image using a lace heart border punch from Martha Stewart. I layered the white on the dark aqua and added a light aqua with white dots ribbon to the top of the punched strip. I backed my sentiment, "with love at Christmas", in dark aqua and then again in white. I added crystal stickles to all the white cardstock. I added a small snowflake punched out of dark aqua to to the sentiment and added some aquamarine rhinestones to the snowflake and the bottom of the sentiment. I punched out two snowflakes, a large white and a small dark aqua, using two different sized Martha Stewart punches. I added crystal stickles and an aquamarine rhinestone to the snowflake. To the image I added crystal stickles to the snow and white flocking. To finish off my card I added 3 aquamarine rhinestones to the upper left corner.
I am also entering this card into the following challenges:

Paper Cutz: Snowmen or Snowflakes

If The Shoe Fits Scrap It: Texture

All Sorts: Last Minute Christmas Cards

One Stitch At A Time: Anything Goes

The Crafty Pad: Embossing

Stamping Scrapping Challenge Central: Winter Wonderland (items from store: stickles, Martha Stewart punches, Magnolia stamp)

Stamps R Us: Anything Goes

Critter Sketch: No Designer Paper

Top Tip Tuesday: Christmas Inspired

Fun With Shapes & More: Scalloped

Creative Inspirations: Anything Goes Christmas

Wags N Whiskers: Snowflakes

~ Supplies Used ~

Magnolia Snowy Hug Rubber Stamp

White Cardstock

DCWV Aqua Cardstock

DCWV Dark Aqua Cardstock

Stickles ~ Crystal

Inkadinkado White Flocking

Basics By Kaiser Craft Aquamarine Rhinestones

American Crafts Aqua With White Dots Ribbon

Martha Stewart Lace Heart Border Punch

EK Success 1 3/8" Circle Punch

Martha Stewart Snowflake Punch

Martha Stewart Snowflake Corner Punch

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder ~ Dots

Crayola Colored Pencils

Prisma Colored Pencils