I absolutely adore these snowmen from the Lockhart Stamp Company...they are individual stamps ..so you can make your own family. I also love their holly and bough border (9002 Holiday Ribbon from the Millinery Collection). Anyone who know me persoanlly knows I love snowman, they adorn all of my handpainted christmas ornaments and my snowman paper designs. I absolutely love the possibilities these cute little snowman have. I found these great CD Boxes at the Dollar Store - they come 3 in a packet with a variety of fun designs. I am always looking for great gift ideas and I thought these would be cute with a CD or even with a Gift Card inside the box.
So to start this project I cut a 4 1/2" x 4" piece of white cardstock, then I stamped the Holiday Ribbon border. The border was longer than my paper, so I used a mask on both sides of my paper so that I could make a square frame with the bough border. Next I cut a Scalloped Oval using my Spellbinders Nestabilities I used Steel Blue Elan Metallics from World WIn and dry embossed it with my Snowflake A2 Embossing Folder. (choose the size oval that fits inside your bough frame). To color the bough border I used YG67 Copic Markers to color the holly leaves and then I used Apple Green Prismacolr Pencil to color the boughs. Then I highlighted the holy with my Olive Spica Micro Glass Flake Pens and the boughs with my Melon Spica. I colored in the berries with my Red Spica.
Using Adriondack Pitch Black I stamped all four snowman and colored them with a combination of Copic markers and Spica Pens. Then I cut each one of the snowmen our and placed 3 of them on my scalloped oval using foam squares. I used 2 layers of foam squares to add the smallest Snowman to my family. For the snow I used snowtext writer and Crystal Glitter from the Art Glitter Institute. I used a pallete knife to put the snow in place, since my snowman were 3-D. I placed the tallest snowman on the right hand corner. To balance the red in my card I used American Crafts Rudolph paper to mat my image.
Know if you have been reading my blog - you know I always like to do one more step...so as I was writing this blog it occurred to me that the Tonic Snowflake Border Punch...Punches the cutest scrap baby snowflakes - so of course I retrieved the the snowflakes from the belly of my punch and they just happened to be this beautiful pale blue and a perfect size to add to my card. So here is the upgraded design:
Aren't the baby snowflakes cute?? In the larger version of this photo you can actually see the shine of the microglass flakes- I was so hopeful that you might be able to see them in this photo post...it really makes my cards just pop.
