All Decked Out Thanks Card

Luckily, our electricity and heat all stayed on during the blizzard so I hunkered down to make some cards...snowman themed, of course!  

As always, I am trying to use up my stash so I mixed and matched different patterned papers from Zoe (X7197B) and Georgie (X7203B), both current CTMH paper packs and from Snowhaven and Frosted, both retired paper packs. I also used the retired stamp sets, A Little Thanks and All Decked Out. The other new items I used were CTMH's Silver Foil Tape (Z3130) and some twine from the Dollar Spot at Target (which is already sold out).

I planned on making them in bulk so I went step by step. I stamped the hats on the green and white polka dotted paper from Zoe and on Cranberry cardstock so that I could have a red hat band. After cutting all of those out, I paper pieced them. Then I stamped the scarf onto the Canary cardstock, cut those out and colored some of the snowflake shapes on the scarf with the ShinHan™ Touch Twin™ Carmine Marker. That took a looong time. I stamped the snowman face and bottom on White Daisy cardstock, of course, and used the ShinHan™ Touch Twin™ Marigold Marker for the carrot nose. I cut the red Snowhaven rectangle with my paper trimmer at 1.5" x 3" and put the Silver Foil tape along the top. The gray chevron pattern is from Georgie and I used my Large Deckled Rectangles die from Nestabilities to use a background for the snowman. I used Chocolate to ink both these and the 5.25" x 4" beige Frosted background piece. As I was assembling, I was able to position the large "Thanks." and stamp in Chocolate. I loved how the red and white twine echoed the red and white in the Snowhaven rectangle and in the red on the scarf and hat of the snowman.

Whew! That's 20 cards --- which will get used up immediately!

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All Decked Out - Snowman Card

I spent yesterday and today making a bunch of snowman cards using All Decked Out. It is such a fun stamp set to embellish! I thought about using different hats and scarves on each card to personalize them a bit, but in the end I decided that it would make the process faster and simpler to make them all with the same hat and the same scarf. I needed 9 cards to use as thank you cards for my students and then I wanted a few extras.

I started off by stamping a snowman with arms, a face, and snowflakes on a 3.5" x 5" piece of White Daisy cardstock. Then I repeated this about 12 more times. Sorry for the out of focus picture!

Then I stamped the hat I chose on a patterned piece of paper as well as on a solid piece of Sky cardstock multiple times. I also stamped the scarf on Sky cardstock and then I cut out the hats, hat bands, and scarves. I layered the Sky hat band onto the patterned paper hats.

Next, I "dressed" the snowmen in their hats and scarves and inked up the edges of the White Daisy cardstock pieces in Moonstruck ink. I also colored the carrot noses with an orange colored pencil.

I inked up the edges of some old patterned paper (from Twitterpated) in Moonstruck ink and attached them to card bases.Then I attached the White Daisy snowman stamped pieces to these card bases. I added some silver Glitz to some of the snowflakes and Liquid Glass to the carrot noses.

After the cards were dry, I added Sunset ink to some mini paper flowers and added mini sparkles to the middles. I added these flowers to the hats. I also added some ribbon to the card. Here is the final card.

Supplies used (all CTMH): (D1308) All Decked Out stamp set, Sky stamp pad, (Z2134) Moonstruck stamp set, (Z2124) Grey Flannel stamp pad, (Z2117) Crystal Blue Stamp pad, (Z2105) Black stamp pad, (Z2114) Cocoa stamp pad, (Z1482) Silver Glitz glitter gel, (Z679) Liquid Glass, blue ribbon, mini paper flowers, (retired) Sweet Home paper, (retired) Twitterpated paperPin It