DIY Christmas Card Tutorial - Using Mica Powder

Christmas 2024 is only 2 days away! So I thought I'd go old school with a quick last minute DIY craft tutorial.  In the way of Christmas cards, using beautiful sparkly mica powder.  I'm not a stranger to this kind of crafting, check out my old post here from Ihanna's DIY Art postcard swap.  Where I used Brusho pigment powders to create my postcards.  This tutorial works in very much the same way, but then finished off with the usual card crafting paraphernalia.

On a side note, what a weird Christmas season it's been this year.  Lots of people have said how it doesn't really feel like it.  I've had major ick stuff happening in my immediate area, like, distressing stuff we see in the news every day.  But because it's not in our immediate lives, we can detach.  Well! Two incidences I won't go into that left me reeling, with the 'bad news' right on my doorstep! It was a lot.  And I can't help but feel deeply about the fact the world just seems to be burning around us.  My ADHD intuition radar is going off the scale! But, a blog for another day perhaps! I digress.  Let's focus back on lighter things such as the sparkle of Christmas! 

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