Winter is Shaping Up With Interaction!

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by *Vicki*

So after getting my calendars ready to start the year off, which is easy to sit and craft during the cold snowy winter where I live, my mind turned to winter when creating!  Sometimes it’s nice to create with a “snowflake/winter” theme because I think they can be used interchangeable for Christmas or just a “warm winter greeting” for someone!  (Or… because you might be late sending one out or for those friends overseas that won’t arrive one time!)

Today I’m sharing a card that I’ve made for this month’s Inky Stamper challenge on FB with the theme: “Shaped Cards”

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Isn’t she cute?!  I was trying to come up with a different shape besides a regular circle, etc.  So I looked up “coloring pages for kids” free online and found this one that I resized to what I wanted and printed it out over some light purple cardstock.  I used another printed one as a template so that I could cut another one out over a folded cardstock piece to create a shaped folded card design. (You can partly see the back piece in the photo.)  The sparkly “ball” at the top was just die cut out from a scallop circle die with sparkly silver cardstock.

For the card front, I used the Inky Stamper Snow Angel stamp set to stamp the snowflakes in the background with some purple ink.  I white heat embossed the sentiment over and wanted it to stand out a bit more, so I sponged some more light purple ink over top of it.  I colored “Rosie” over Copic blending card and used the die to cut her out with.  I’ve die cut a couple of the large snowflakes from Lawn Fawn with white cardstock and layered them over the beanie hat.  You can see that “Rosie” is popped out a bit over that snowflake, which is where I’ve added a “wobbler” to her…check it out in the video below:

The wobbling action doesn’t move around in the video as it does in person.  I think my camera slows down the action or something.  (weird)  And of course I finished the card with some sparkly Icicles sequins mix from Inky Stamper too.  I filled the centers of them with some Silver Stickles.

Because of the “ball” on top and the length of the “beanie band”, it needs to be in a 5.5″ square envelope to mail.  You could also make your own envelope which I do all the time anyway.  But the 5.5″ size fits perfectly.

*Speaking of Inky Stamper things, this past prior weekend there was an OOAK event (on FB) that Inky Stamper was apart of, so of course I wanted to get the kit and play along too! (I think that these have recently been sold out.)  But the stamp set used for the kit was this fun Penguin stamp set you can still get in the store.  Here’s my results:

The top card is an interactive “Theater Fold” design.  (All of the pieces were included with the kit along with an instructional video/class.)  I participated in the OOAK FB event to play along.  She usually always includes a mini bonus card which measures about an ATC size. (3.5″ x 2.5″)  She used the “icicles” from the stamp set, but I decided to stamp and cut out another snowflake for the front of mine.  I added a pretty gem to the center of it.

And of course that’s not the ONLY fun I had during the OOAK event!  I decided to play along with the always cute and funny Riley and Co. as well!  Here’s the set of cards created from that class:

I just thought these were so cute with the cow images and their little outfits along with the “Funny Bone” sentiments!  The instructions came with the kit which were really easy to follow along with.  I basically looked at the photos and put together the pieces from the kit.  For the clouds, I decided to pull out some sparkly white flock to cover them with.  They have a nice soft feel to them!  They just make me chuckle and I think it will be fun to send along to someone who needs a smile!😉

*If you are visiting my website, then you can check out each one of these cards in the gallery below by clicking on the photos to enlarge them: (I’ve found some coordinating envelopes from my stash for each card.)

Flock was added to the clouds.
purple, sparkle and funny sentiment…what more could you ask?!
rainbow image was turned upside-down for the swing! So clever!

I sure hope that you’ve enjoyed my post today and have been inspired in some way!  Really appreciate you stopping in and I’ll be seeing you soon!🥰  Stay warm!

Challenges (For Winter Beanie Hat Shaped card ONLY):

  1. Challenge Up Your Life – Winter Fun
  2. Papercraft – Winter Wonderland
  3. Creatalicious – Anything Goes with optional winter
  4. Make My Monday – Winter-Wherever You Are (snowy and cold!)
  5. Make the Cards – Encouragement (You’re unique sentiment)
  6. Aud Sentiments – Anything Goes + sentiment

34 thoughts on “Winter is Shaping Up With Interaction!”

  1. Such a fun and creative set of cards, Vicki!! I love them all!! The two interactive ones most of ALL!! Awesome work!

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  2. As always a brilliant selection of cards,love the critter stamps and gorgeous backgrounds you created for each and everyone

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  3. Your beany hat is stunning, Vicki.
    Your theatre card with the cute penguin is fabulous too.
    I also love the other 3 cards with the fun images and lovely details!
    xxx Margreet

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  5. Thanks for the laugh with the last three Vicki x. Very creative and cute penguin card and extra loving the bobble hat shape on the first and yes she is so cute x.

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  7. Wow girl, you have been a busy bee. Love the winter hat and clever idea for the design. The penguin fancy fold card is awesome, as well as all the fun animal cards.

    Hugs
    Sue

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  9. WOW, you have been so busy which is awesome, and a fabulous selection of fun and cute and gorgeous cards Vicki, I love your little mouse having a wobble on the hat card, so clever. and the little penguin doing his thing with those cute eyebrows, which give him so much character, and then the sweet set below, gorgeous colouring and cute fun images, wonderful post today..

    Luv CHRISSYxx

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  10. I can’t stop giggling over those punny sentiments! I love the one concerning glitter!! LOL What a great array of cards, including that shaped hat with the little mouse! Honestly, you’ve created a great assortment of fun projects for so may occasions and I’m leaving your blog with a big smile on my face! Thanks for the chuckles and inspiration too!

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  11. Hi, Vicki! You created some great cards for this post. I love all of the characters and the fantastic sentiments! You are such a great artist. Hugs!

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  12. Vicki, I think the method you used for making the beanie cap is brilliant! I know I’ll use that idea now that you’ve shared it. The other cards are such fun. Absolutely LOVE the ‘unicorn fart’ sentiment. lol

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  15. OMGoodness, the beanie card is over-the-top adorable! And I love the other ones as well. You’ve been busy… cold/snowy weather definitely means studio time! 😉

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  16. Very fun cards, VIcki. Unicorn farts – lol! Love the cap shaped card especially. The sentiment about someone else cleaning up the glitter made me laugh. I bought some ornaments with a bunch of glitter on them and they have somehow managed to spread around the house. Hubby feels alergic to glitter so I have swept more than I ever have in my life! Fun post sweet friend. Hugz

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  18. Such a fun and fabulous collection of cards Vicki! The first one was adorable and then I was surprised to see so many more, very enjoyable!

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  21. Such a fun shaped card, Vickie! I just love it! Thank you for playing with us at the MMM Challenge and hope you can join in again soon.
    Debbie
    Secrets To Stamping
    Join my Creative Creases Challenge for fun folds!

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  22. Oh wow, Vicki – it’s nice to see you! I didn’t know you were blogging again! I saw your goodbye post (sniff, sniff) and was SO STINKIN HAPPY to see you pop up on my feed! YEEEEEEEEEEEES! And with so many cuties! Love that beanie hat – and of course your signature rididculously amazing coloring!! Happy 2022, my friend!

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  24. What a super cute card. The mouse is amazing and your sentiment is truly encouraging. Thank you for sharing with us at Make the Cards Challenge and we hope you join us again soon!
    Anna, Design Team

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    1. Thank you! 🙂 If you’re on the fence about it, I’d say order it because they go fast and it was mentioned that more kits were made…I went ahead and got mine! Huge Riley and Funny Bone fan! Thanks for popping in!

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  29. I have gone to this selection of beautiful cards three times now, they are all just too adorable. Every time I go I see something different (like the up side down rainbow swing.) Love the glitter sentiment – oh so true, sometimes we will be sitting at the dinner table and ask my hubby where he got the glitter on his cheek. Fun. I bet you did have a great time putting these together.

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  30. Such an adorable shaped winter card. Love your design. Many thanks for joining us at Challenge Up Your Life.

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  31. Love the hat card. It’s perfect for winter here. My mum is busy knitting woolly hats for all our family. Thanks for joining us at Make My Monday. Love Dawn x

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