Whirl Bay Leaves

I have made a couple cards with the beautiful new Simon Says Stamp die from their DieCember® release...one a Christmas card, and the other...well, you'll see...

For this first one, I die cut the leaves from white cardstock, and brushed green inks on the leaves.  I added die cut flowers from another of the new die sets, also die cut from white cardstock, and colored with brushed on ink. I added enamel accents for the centers, and glossy accents for the dots between the leaves.  I added a die cut and layered CZ Design die from silver matte cardstock.  Here's a close up...

The second one....well...I have some thoughts...

When I originally made this card...from two whirl leaves, with brushed on color, I made it in the middle of November, when the leaves were in full Fall color, and before Thanksgiving.  I was not thinking that the DieCember® release would be coming out a couple days AFTER Thanksgiving, and in December...with Christmas on the mind.  So...above, you see the Fall/Thanksgiving version of the card.  THEN...I was talking to my daughter about my card, she had the idea to spritz some snow on the leaves.  I had never done that(that I can remember), and with a toothbrush, but I thought I would give it a try...

I'm not sure I love it, as I wish I had done some larger splatters, but I didn't hate it either.  I thought it fair for a first try.  I used another CZ Design sentiment, in gold matte, with the background of the sentiment in vellum.  Here's a close up....

I wonder which you like better??  If this card had come out in November...the first one would have been the only one I would have shown, but I think it so nice to think you can have so many looks with this beautiful die!!  NOTE:  I had to redo this post, as the original HTML messed up the layout of my blog.   Hope your December is not too crazy...deep breaths...deep breaths!!  

Thanks for visiting me today!! Hugs!! Lisa