Black and White Blast....

I LOVE pattern and colour and there's nothing I love more than fussing over a card but when time is tight you can't really beat the simplicity of black and white and some great dies... and that's kind of where my journey started with these cards.

I've already made a very similar card with a reindeer on it but I just love this die so...

I tried it with an oval window, snowflakes and one of my favourite Waltzing Mouse sentiments

...then I tried it with just a single star for a cleaner look...

Then I decided I'd done that one to death (for now...) so

I dug out this lovely die which I bought at Newbury Artstamps wayyy back in the summer. It works so well with the black and white. I think the sentiment stamp is Inkadinkadoo. Whatever it is, I should definitely use it more. It's so pretty.

THEN I found these lovely medallion dies by Spellbinders tucked away in my stash and thought how great they'd look in black and white... (Hmmmm somebody should have brushed down their work before they photographed it. Looks like I left half my anti-static pad on this card. WHY do you NEVER notice these things until after you've uploaded your piccies?)

Guess what! They look pretty fab all gussied up in aqua, white and red too...

Looks like my black and white phase could be over. It's back to glorious colour tomorrow....

Lx