let me make myself perfectly CLEAR

at ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ this week, i mean. our new prompt is called "it came upon a midnight clear" and we want to see... (can you guess?!) ...holiday cards with at least one see-through element! what kind of element, you ask? howsabout: glass, a transparency, some vellum, acetate or "ghost" shapes, clear stickers, lucite buttons, shrink plastic... in other words, whatever you like! basically, if you can see through it --and figure out how to attach it!-- you can link it up! i made a card on a transparency base. i LOVE making those! riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight up to the time i have to (clumsily) photograph them. (grrrr.) but i think you can get the idea of what i've done, right?

snowflake transparency base: the late, great, hambly screen prints; patterned paper: kaisercraft; poinsettia flowers and glitter snowflake: michaels; blue clear-edge bling, clear swirl bling, small round brad and wide glitter winter washi: eyelet outlet; adhesives: elmers brand gluetape, gluedots

i've only got a few precious hambly holiday transparency sheets left; despite the fact that my lovely blogging partner and crafty bff, stephanie, has managed to find a few more for me each year since hambly have gone out of business. this year she also found something called foiled acetate, from a new-to-me brand called hunkydory that i really like, as well. for this card i followed the current sketch saturday layout and had a fun time deciding which elements of the sketch should be placed on the outside of the card (the snowflake/poinsettia stack, plus the bling swirl and gorgeous new extra-wide glitter winter washi tape from eyelet outlet) and which on the inside (a cardstock mat from kaisercrafts's "silver bells" line).    

of course, you don't need to make a clear card, just use at least one clear element!!! need a little more inspiration? check out the gorgeous card stephanie made this week at ♥JINGLE BELLES♥!