Winter Luminaries

Is it snowing where you live? We had a green Christmas last week but it is supposed to snow this evening for the first time this December. It's been unseasonably warm here...actually it looked more like winter in November than it has all this month and more like Spring now that it did in April and May!  Wild weather...anyway, I thought it might be fun to create these lovely Snowflake Luminaries for the long winter months ahead...

I was inspired to make these when I bought the snowflake dies from Spellbinders. They fit nicely inside my scallop square dies from MFT which sparked this idea.

I mounted Rinea foiled papers onto a piece of chipboard then arranged the snowflake dies inside the scallop squares and cut them both at once. This yielded a nice frame as well as perfectly fitting snowflake inserts.

I glued vellum "windows" to the backs of the frames, then glued the snowflake inserts to the vellum.

Repeated this for all 4 sides and then glued the sides together to create the luminary. There are 3 sizes of the snowflake frames which in turn allowed me to create the trio of luminaries. 

Don't they looks so pretty with the battery operated flicker lights?

Supplies:

Rinea - Frosted Foiled Paper Variety Pack
Spellbinders - Snowflake Frames
MFT - Scallop Squares
Vellum, Chipboard, Flicker Lights