Swirling Snowflakes

It’s been a couple of busy weeks but I finally have a card to post. I thought I would play Craft Roulette to inspire a much needed Christmas card to add to my small pile. The Craft Roulette Parameters ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

How this card meets the parameters is…the mechanism in the middle is a “fancy fold” the twists when the card opens. I think of teals and silver when I think of “aquarium colours”, I used snowflakes to represent “November” and I have the little gems randomly around but I have them grouped in “clusters of 3” in several areas.

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1A- cut the card base and panels as shown.

B- I cut the centers out of the teal panels to lessen the bulk and save some cardstock that would otherwise just be covered.

C- I layered the teal panels then the White.

D- I added the panels to the front, back and inside of the card base.

2A- I cut out the mechanism from the Heart Collage Pop up (Karen has a video tutorial on the product page at the link ⬆️ )

B- I cut out a second mechanism and some clear plastic strips

C- I cut the arms off the second mechanism, then sandwiched the clear strips between the mechanism arms and the ones I had just cut off the second mechanism.

D- add the mechanism to the card base. I didn’t measure the clear strips, I had one that stuck out too far so I just trimmed it off.

3A-I pulled out the snowflakes from some different diesets (listed at the bottom) I diecut snowflakes from all the shades of teal, holographic silver and holographic teal.

B- cut out 3 Labels Crosshatch and the Merry Christmas from the 2 holographic papers.

C- add to the cardfront as shown.

4A- I first added the snowflakes to the arms, opening and closing to watch for catch points. Then added snowflakes from the bottom left to the top right of the inside.

B- I added little gems randomly around and in the snowflakes. Making sure to have some of them in clusters of 3

C- on the front I added snowflakes from the bottom left to the top right, then added gems the same way as the inside.