Day 17 - O is for "O-T-E"

It's time for the 12th Annual Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Place.

You can read the rules HERE or head over to Beccy's Challenges and enter HERE.

Day 17 - O

Beccy's inspiration is two elegant cards with a goose nestled

amongst green and red Christmas ornaments HERE  

My "O" is for "O-T-E"
... an Opportunity-To-Embellish.

You can't deny it, we've all been there, we've been happily crafting away, mistakes happen, things go wrong, you think your project is wrecked, you stand back,

have a little ponder and, YAY, you have found a way to save the day,

an O-T-E, an Opportunity-To-Embellish.

My O-T-E was such a rookie mistake, such a sad, sad, tale.

I was concentrating so hard on adding the tiniest of dots of adhesive to my ultra delicate sentiment strip that I adhered it upside-down on the top of the card ... shaking my head, I have never done such a silly oops before ... OK, let's say not for a long time.  Of course the liquid adhesive decided to dry super fast and bits of the white cardstock peeled off the card front and it looked dreadful.  All was not lost.  I haven't used my Stickles for a while and I thought, hmm, a bit of glitter might hide my self inflicted mess, so I smothered the entire frame of the card front with Stardust Stickles,

then, to tie it in with my background, I added them to the falling snow too.

My Opportunity-To-Embellish made my card even better than I planned. 

Now that I have explained my "O-T-E",

I suppose I should share some details about my card.

This is my third card using this cardinal card cut file (full details below).

Here are my first and second Cardinal Christmas Cards.

   

I adjusted the cut file size from 4" x 9" to 3 1/2" x 8 1/4",

making it a slightly short slimline card.

Instead of cutting the card base with the cut detail on the front as one piece, I converted it to be a cut card front.  I made a shorter slimline card base from 300gsm smooth cardstock, making the card much sturdier than it would have been if cut from textured cardstock.  I cut the tree panel, cardinals and matting layer from textured cardstock and layered on to the card base.  Using the same red cardstock as the cardinals, I cut a sentiment strip to adhere across the bottom of the card.  This is when my O-T-E happened.  I carefully peeled the sentiment strip from across the top of my card, framed the card front with Stardust Stickles, added random white gel pen

snow flurries to the background and topped them off with Stardust Stickles.

Lucky last came the sentiment strip, which as carefully

adhered in place across the BOTTOM of the card.

Happy Ending :)

It's hard to capture the luscious sparkle in a photo.

   

Here are the three cards together:

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INGREDIENTS

#10 Aspen Tree Cardinal Card - cut file - Silhouette Design Store ID #156205

Merry Christmas sentiment - from the Christmas Cardinals Layered Card cut file

by The Bearded Housewife

textured cardstock - for the card layers

300gsm smooth white cardstock - for the card base

Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue - to glue the trees & cardinals

Helmar 450 Quick Dry liquid adhesive – to glue the larger pieces
white gel pen - to create falling snow

Stardust Stickles - to add sparkle to the frame and snow

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I have entered my card in the

12th Annual Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Place Challenges