Snow Place Light Card

I originally saw the Chibi lights used on a card on Pinterest and I was totally mesmerized.  But when I tried to buy them I found they were not available in Canada.  However, I did manage to track some down.
Anything electric intimidates me and creating a circuit to make this light work was very intimidating!!  However, I viewed this as a challenge!  So, I watched a few videos,  read the instructions in the kit, swallowed my fear and went to work.
This is what I came up with:

This is the card that was built up around the light.  If you look closely you can see a clear star at the top of the 3rd tree.  The light is behind the tree.
For the next card I will take a picture of the circuit I created using the contents of the Chibi lights kit, but I was so excited that the circuit actually worked that the thought never crossed my mind.  So stay tuned.

I turned the lights out so the Chibi light could be seen better.  The battery needs to be pressed to make the lights come on, so I put a sticker over that spot.  You can see my finger in the picture where the pressure needs to be placed.  Isn't that cool?

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Snow Place, Peaceful Pines, Greeting from Santa
Inks: Black Memento, markers (Read Red, Pumpkin Pie), Garden Green, Always Artichoke, Pear Pizzazz, Real Red, Dapper Denim, Versa Mark
Papers: Chibi Lights (non SU),  Dazzling Diamond glimmer paper, Whisper White,
Accessories: Dazzling diamonds, Liquid Applique (non SU), Dazzling diamonds, Snow Friends Framelits, Perfect Pines Framelits, Brayer, Dimensionals, clear star shaped sticker.

Let it Snow!

We weren't looking for snow!  We were looking for rain! And lo and behold, while I was down in the craft room we had a bit of a thunderstorm.  Not much rain with it, but at least I don't have to go out and water the planters.

Today I made a Christmas card using the Serene Scenic DSP stack and the Sheltering Tree stamp set.  I am so enjoying working with this DSP!

The image of the tree was stamped with Early Espresso ink on Whisper White card stock, and was then die cut with the layering ovals framelits.  The edges of this oval were sponged with Crumb Cake, with some Soft Suede near the bottom to "ground" the tree.

Two die cut cardinals from "Thoughtful Branches" were added to the tree branches.  Cardinals are always such a splash of colour in the winter time.

This oval was adhered to the card front using dimensionals.

The card base is Crumb Cake card stock, layered with Whisper White, and then a piece of Serene Scenic DSP that looks like snow falling from the sky.

The sentiment (from Snow Home) is stamped first with Crumb Cake ink, and then Soft Suede, with the works offsetting each other.  This was matted with Crumb Cake, both ends notched, and adhered to the lower part of the oval using dimensionals.

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Sheltering Tree, Snow Place, Thoughtful Branches
Inks: Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Real Red
Papers: Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Serene Scenic DSP stack
Accessories: Layering Ovals framelits, Beautiful Branches framelits, dimensionals

Snow Place Merry Christmas Shaker card

Another hot, dry day in Southern Ontario.  I cannot remember a summer that has had so little rain.  But these are ideal  conditions  to work in an air conditioned craft room and make cards or other 3D projects.
Last night I made this Christmas shaker card featuring the snowmen from "Snow Place".  I used masking to place the big snowman behind the little one.

I prepared the front of the card as usual, placing 2 patterns of  Christmas Paper DSP on top of Whisper White cardstock.  Then I die cut an oval opening using the layering ovals framelits. Turning this paper over, a window sheet was glued over the opening. Strips of narrow foam tape were adhered around the opening, and the top and sides of the paper.  Sequins, & silver glimmer punchies were piled in the middle of the window sheet.

On a separate piece of Whisper White, the images were stamped and coloured and then turned over and adhered to the shaker element.

Here's a close up of the shaker element.  A wooden snowflake embellishment(retired) was added to the upper left  and the sentiment on the lower bottom.

Supplies Used:
Stamps Snow Place
Inks: Black Memento, Smokey Slate, Real Red, pumpkin pie marker
Papers: Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White, This Christmas DSP
Accessories: Layering Oval framelits, silver sequins, dazzling diamonds glimmer paper stars, window sheet, wood snowflake embellishment (retired),

Playing in the Snow - The Paper Players #270

I must admit this was a most unusual card for me to make.  The challenge with The Paper Players 
was a colour one:  Black, plus white, plus silver or gold, plus a colour of my choice.

The colours I used:  black, white, silver and Marina Mist, with the stamp set "Snow Place"

• The base cardstock is basic black layered with silver foil paper (it looks red in the picture because I am wearing a red sweater and it picked up the red colour).  On top of the silver foil layer is a layer of Whisper White.
• On a separate piece of Whisper White, the image of the both snowmen, their arms, the hat and the penquin were stamped with Black Memento ink.  These were all die cut using the Snow Friends framelits.  I positioned the arms so that it looked like they were throwing snowballs.
• Both snowmen and the penquin were either surrounded or on top of snow - which was silver glimmer paper.  Their bodies were coloured lightly with Marina Mist marker.
• Before attaching these fun friends to the front of the card, the sky was coloured using Silver encore ink and a couple of scallop circles adhered together to create the clouds.  Then, using the Silver Encore ink again, snowflakes were stamped onto the sky.  To bring a little colour to the sky, I coloured some dazzling detail glimmer paper with a Marina Mist marker and punched out 3 snowflakes (non SU punch) and added them to the sky using a glue dot.
• The figures were then adhered to the front on top of the snow.  The second layer of snow was adhered over them.  A little bit of liquid applique marked the outline of the snow.

Supplies Used:
Stamp:  Snow Place
Inks: Black Memento, Silver Encore ink, Black marker, Marina Mist marker
Papers:  Basic Black, Silver Foil, Silver glimmer paper, Dazzling diamond glimmer paper, Whisper White
Accessories: Snow friends framelits, Snowflake punch (non SU), Blender pen, liquid applique (non SU)

There's No Place Like Home - Try Stampin' On Tuesday #240

This card is for the Try Stampin' on Tuesday . I decided not to use an Autumn theme, instead using Christmas as I am short of Christmas cards.
I had a bit of fun making characters out of the little snowperson from "Snow Place" and placing them in little squares tilted on their sides.

 

• I started by punching three 1 3/8" squares in Whisper White, and matting them with 2" squares of Real Red cardstock.
• In each of the square I stamped the upper body of the small snowperson.  On a separate piece of Whisper Piece I stamped the top hat in Black, the ear pieces in Real Red, and the snowman hat in Real red.  All of these were die cut using the Snow friends Framelit dies.
• In the meantime I stamped some stick  arms (s) on the snowperson, and the coal belly buttons.  The nose was colored with a Pumpkin pie marker.
• The accessories were added to the snowperson with dimensionals.  With the ear piece I stamped some musical notes from "Jingle All the Way"
• Finally I added bling in the form of Dazzling diamonds - on the santa hat, the ear pieces, the hat, and the outline of the snowperson.
• A Home for Christmas enamal dots were added to each square.
• These squares were added onto a strip of Home for Christmas DSP matted with Smoky Slate cardstock.  The outer two squares were adhered directly to the DSP; the middle one with dimensionals.
• These DSP panels were adhered to a piece of Whisper White cardstock which was the matting for the Real Red cardstock base.

Supplies Used:
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A Snowman Merry Christmas

I really do not like to waste anything.  Let me tell you what I found!  Five pieces of A2 Cherry Cobbler already folded and ready to be made into cards.  Not only were they folded, but the front had been embossed with the Northern Flurries embossing folder (now retired) and been spritzed with Vanilla spritz.  So I put my thinking cap on and decided that snowmen would fit perfectly under the embossing.

• Both snowmen, from "Snow Place"  were stamped with Black Memento ink, and I put a hat and scarf on the big one and a Santa hat on the small one.  All these were stamped first and then die cut using the Snowfriends framelits.

Supplies Used: 

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