Snowman Card

I would say it takes me about an hour to put a new card  together. Often it takes three or four attempts before I am happy with a design. 

At Christmas I do a big box of about 200 cards.  I like to have at least 10 different designs, but it all depends on the embellishments I have collected during the year, most are bought in the sales. 

This is the first of design for my 2009 Box. 

The centre uses a 3D embellishment from a pack of 8 assorted designs from Hobbycraft, I have looked on the packet but it’s not clear who the makers are.

Its a pretty simple card, the time was spent on deciding on colours and paper.  I just love gingham papers, especially for Christmas, it’s so versatile.

The picture is made using blue bazzill paper with two layers of white glitter card for snow plus the snowman.  I have drawn snowflakes using a white gel pen on the sky, added two tiny peel off dots to accentuate the snowman’s eyes and a small gold star on the tree.  The snowflakes are punchies with a blue flat backed gem in the centre.

The centre is stuck onto the card using sticky pads for extra dimension.

Now I have come up with this basic design I shall repeat it with the other stickers from the pack with a variety of other coloured ginghams.