Try it on Tuesday - Snowflakes

Hello Everyone!

It's time to start another challenge over at Try it on Tuesday. This time around our theme is "SNOWFLAKES / SNOW". Sadly, this will be my last challenge at Try it on Tuesday. It has been such a wonderful experience and I have learned so much, but it's time for me to move on and get started on the next leg of my crafty adventure. I send out a special thank you to Yvonne who has been such a wonderful team leader, and to my teamies who have been a great source of inspiration and support!

For my last challenge I decided to put together a Christmas card with the gift attached, a wee wooden snowflake ornament.

I coated the snowflake with crackle paste, which looks great for the photo, unfortunately, I later discovered that the dried paste completely rubs right off!! The snowflake has a coating on it apparently, so in the end, I covered it with a chunky white glitter instead.

The kraft layer design is done with some texture paste and the Art Is stencil by Crafter's Workshop. The vellum layer is stamped with white pigment ink and a couple of snowflake stamps. The very back layer is stamped with the same snowflake stamps but I used Hero Arts Soft Sand ink. The punched out snowflake is a Martha Stewart punch.

UPDATE:
my card won awards in the following wonderful challenges:

 - One Stitch at a Time - Challenge #251 - Anything Goes with WINTER

** - Cupcake Inspirations - Week #339 Let it Snow
- The Mixed Media Card Challenge #18 {Celebration}

    

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Hubby and I decided to go over to the main street and have a look at what's there...I almost passed out when we drove around the corner. I've never seen anything so quaint! We didn't see much in the way of decorations in the city, it wasn't PC, to put Christmas out in public, we weren't even allowed to say Merry Christmas to people at work! So let me tell you how much I was blown away when this was how the street was decorated!!!!

This was the tree in the courtyard at the end of the street. It was so big, those snowflake decorations are bigger than my head!! In the 3rd picture here, I was standing underneath a branch at the bottom of the tree, that's how big it is!!! Holy moly!

There were rows of trees filled with lights, and every lamppost and flower pot had decorations on them. Every store had a gorgeous window or stoop display! I took over a hundred pictures, so be prepared to look at a lot of window and street decorations over the next couple of weeks. Yeah, I know, I'm a geek! lol

In the center of the square was a collection of little trees all decorated by ornaments made by the local children. Every tree was a different classroom or grade, and each tree had a little plaque on it, so you could read who made the decorations. It almost brought a tear to my eye to see that sort of involvement and community mentality. I AM FINALLY HOME!!

Oh, and one final thing to note...the local pub, which we will be visiting very soon!!

I would love to hear what sort of traditions your community has.

That's it for today. Thank you for stopping in and for all the amazing comments. I read and appreciate every single one! If you have any questions, please let me know.