I created these using white quarter sheets from which I had cut large snowflakes (SU) a while back for other Christmas cards which featured the snowflake. These have been sitting for a while and having been inspired by some cards on Splitcoast Stampers which have been backing openings with cardstock strips I thought I would give it a try. I took blue strips from my stash and adhered them together with regular tape on the back and then embossed them with a snowflake embossing folder (CB). I trimmed it to size and adhered it to the back of my quarter sheet and then added snowflake die cuts in the center with a blue sequin and a silver brad. I trimmed the quarter sheet down just a bit and then added a faux stitching border using a silver marker. I added the greeting on the first one afterwards, but having added a thread to the second one I added it before gluing the snowflake layer to by blue card. They worked out exactly like I imagined they would!!!
I had a stack of ivory ones that I wanted to put to good use so I decided to experiment with warm toned backgrounds to see if that would work as well. I found scraps of these papers in my stash and thought they would work well as they had glittered elelements - reindeer on the brown and sleighs on the red. I found those papers difficult to use as background for other images but they worked quite well for adding sparkle to these snow flakes. I added paper piercing to the brown one and faux stitching with a gold marker for other. To finish off the cards I added gold fabric snowflakes with gold brads to the centers before adhering these large elements to my card fronts. Got quite a few cards made with these backgrounds.
