Partial Cut Snowflakes

Happy Thursday! Can you believe we are now a week until Christmas?!

I’m back again today to share with you all a technique that I call partial cutting, and can be easily replicated with any die cut or electronic cutting machine… I created mine with my Silhouette Cameo. You can use pretty much any shape for this technique; for my card today I chose some snowflakes by Sophie Gallo, which are available at the Silhouette Online Store.

To see how I built this card in my Silhouette Studio, I have a special video for you today which shows the steps I took to create the snowflake panel featured on my card… I hope you enjoy it!

After sketching out the sentiment with a brown sketch pen, I heat embossed the sentiment with copper embossing powder.

The snowflake panel was cut using a sheet of snowflake patterned paper from the “Christmas Made” 12×12 paper pad by DCWV, and is adhered to my card using dimensional foam tape; the candy cane stripe paper from the “Merry & Bright” 6×6 paper pad by Pink Paislee, is layered behind. Both papers were edged with brown ink prior to adhering to the paper.

I scattered some mini gold and copper rhinestones around the white space of the card to add some interest, and covered all the snowflakes in the patterned paper with glitter glue. I also added some faux stitching with a white gel pen and tied a 1/4″ white satin ribbon into a bow around the card.

Inspiration:

The colors of this card were inspired by the color palette for this week’s ColourQ Challenge over at ColourQ’s blog.

This card is also featured in CASology’s CAS Snow challenge.

Supplies

• Recollection’s White Cardstock Paper
• DCWV “Christmas Made” 12×12 paper pad
• Pink Paislee “Merry & Bright” 6×6 paper pad
• “Snowflakes” cut file by Sophie Gallo
• Silhouette Cameo, cutting mat, ratchet blade and pen holder
• Staedtler Triplus finetip brown multiliner
• Uniball Signo white gel pen
• ZING! Copper embossing powder
• brown pigment ink
• white satin ribbon
• copper and gold mini rhinestones