Sunday, September 28, 2025

Snowflake for the Paper Players

Hello friends!  It's Sunday and time for a new challenge at the Paper Players.  This week I'm hosting our monthly sketch challenge and created one that will be super easy and versatile for you to use.

As you can see, the circle can be any shape, so your choices are vast!  

For my card, I created a simple Christmas card.  In fact, it was so simple I ended up making four altogether.  But here's my favorite...


I had several ideas for this card, but I ended up with a foiling session, using the Pinkfresh Studio Radiating Snowflake press plate and a couple of Spellbinder sentiment sets.

Next I pulled out one of my favorite Christmas patterned paper pads and found four that would match the snowflakes I'd made.  For the most part, the papers all utilize a bokeh effect, along with different colors and some with more prominent snowflakes.  I love the gold and blue on the card above.  


Putting the card together was super simple.  The snowflake was layered on two additonal die cuts then adhered to the card front, the sentiment popped up with foam tape and then I added three snowflakes cut from white glitter paper and topped with sparkly gems.  I used the same design on the other three cards.




I hope this easy-to-use sketch inspires you to join us this week!  For more design ideas, my wonderfully talented teammates have some fabulous cards on challenge blog here. The challenge will remain open until 3pm EDT on Friday 3rd - I hope to see your card in the gallery! 

Stef

  • Pinkfresh Studio Radiating Snowflake Betterpress plate and die
  • Spellbinders Comfort & Joy Sentiments Hot Foil plate and die
  • Spellbinders Sending Joy Sentiments Betterpress plate and die
  • Kristina Werner Kristina's Essential dies A2 rectangle
  • SSS Woodland Treescape Snowflake dies
  • SSS Warm Tones, Surf and Prism Dazzling Gems
  • Whimsy Stamps Blurry Flurries patterned paper

4 comments:

Ann Schach said...

Beautiful, Stef! The backgrounds on all of these cards are stunning. This snowflake has to be one of the most gorgeous focal points I have ever seen. The embellishments set it off perfectly. You are an amazing cardmaker. Thank you for the great sketch. Have a wonderful week!

lichazul said...

Beautiful snowflake, greats cards, congrats 💐☺️ happy day

Lisa Elton said...

What a gorgeous line-up of cards, Stef! You picked the perfect background papers for those marvelous shimmery snowflakes!

Jan Clothier said...

This is a great sketch, Stef - thanks for letting us play with it. I like your whole gallery of snowflake cards -so pretty and so rich looking. :-)