Snowflakes – Page 4 – Stamped Smiles

*I wanted to take a moment to say to those (and those with loved ones) along the eastern coast threatened by Hurricane Florence that we’re thinking of you and wishing you safety and strength.*

Hello friends! We are quickly rolling through another month here as we are getting into Fall and I know the “C” word will be here before we know it!! LOL! I’m trying to sneak in little creations here and there so I’m not overwhelmed. Sometimes challenges can help with that like our new challenge this week at Cute Card Thursday! Our new challenge this week is “Dies and/or Punches” which is something that I use ALL the time on my projects, how about you?

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This week we are sponsored by “All Dressed Up Stamps” and I have used this adorable image called “Little Skater” on my card. I’ve colored her up with my Copic markers and then I’ve cut her out with a stitched circle die. I then used a very old Stampin’ Up! Snowflake stamp from my stash and stamped some snowflakes in the background with blue ink and then sponged around the edges of the circle with the same color.

I also heat embossed the sentiment (From My Favorite Things) with silver EP over a piece of pink cardstock and then cut it out with a banner strip die. I then sponged around this banner with some white ink. (This pink cardstock is the same color as my card base.

I had a piece of this pretty snowflake woodgrain paper in my stash a long time, pulled it out for the background. I’ve also die cut the stitched scallop circle behind the circle image panel with some silver glitter paper and attached it to the background. I’ve also die cut some additional snowflakes in white cardstock and placed those on my layout and covered the centers of them with some silver Stickles. I used a strip of foam tape to pop up the heat embossed sentiment right underneath the image and then lastly, I’ve added some clear crystal accents to the sides of the sentiment banner as well as on each corner of the background paper.

Here’s a closer view of the image. I have colored her skate blades with a silver gel pen and then I took a clear gel pen and went over the bow in her hair and her scarf as well as the tiny snowflakes around her. I’ve used a white gel pen for her cheeks and highlights on her leggings.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Challenges:

All Dressed Up Challenge – Anything Goes #84 + All Dressed Up image.
QKR Stampede – Anything Goes #312
Sweet Stampin’ – sketch

4. Happy Little Stampers – Anything Goes with Dies

5. Crafting From the Heart – Anything Goes

Hello friends! I thank you all so much for your latest comments on my posts, I do read them all and appreciate what you have to say. 🙂

It is Thursday once again and there is a new challenge issued over at Cute Card Thursday which is “Charms“. You can never have too many charms, right? So pull one out and use it to enter a project with us this week! We would love to see what you come up with!

We are sponsored again by the lovely All Dressed Up Stamps and here’s what I’ve made for my card this week:

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I saw this sweet little image and knew I needed to put it on a card! 🙂 I have used this adorable ADU Christmas Deer image for my design today.

My card size is a 5×5 square design. I have used a stitched square die to cut some snowflake papers from my stash to mount onto a navy piece of card stock which I then placed over a white top folding card base. Before placing it down, I added the white ribbon around it with the bow.

As you can see the ribbon is where I have the snowflake charm attached. I’ve attached it with some silver thread which I’ve also used in a ‘nest’ form behind my circle image panel. I thought it would be cute to take the silver ribbon not only for the center of my white bow, but another bow around the deer’s neck. I die cut some snowflakes with glitter paper for accents and then added some glass enamel dots to the centers. For the circle image panel, I colored the image and cut it out with a circle die and then cut a stitched scallop circle in navy to place behind it and then popped that up with some craft foam.

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Here’s a closer view of the intricate coloring details on the deer. I left his antlers plain and just colored in around them. I used white and red gel pen for the dots. I also took a silver glitter pen to add more dots around the snowflakes.

On the bottom of the circle, I’ve attached some faux snow glitter flakes for the deer to stand on.

I hope you’ve enjoyed my card today! Thanks so much for stopping by! I will have another fun post to share with you tomorrow! 🙂

Challenges: