snowman thank you's

Playing around on Pinterest to find projects for Alex to do had me coming across some fun thumb print stamping ideas. One of which was 'stamping' a snowman. Alex then decided he didn't want to "Build a Snowman" (have you seen Disney's Frozen?? We love Olaf around here). I didn't let that stop me!! Then I was thinking I had some foam circle stamps that would probably work for snowmen and what do you know... they did!!

Here are the six guys waiting for me to finish them up. I stamped the two circles with white paint and let them dry. Used one end of my dry embossing tool to create their eyes and smiles and an eraser on a pencil for the buttons in black paint. I grabbed some scrap orange cardstock and cut the carrots. Nothing precise about them, just eyeballed them to fit on their faces.

Here are the cards completed. I should mention I created the snowmen on a smaller piece of Kraft cardstock and then attached that to the card front. Worked out much better for me since I don't like the look of ribbons and such poking on the inside of the cards I create. One of my pet peeves.

Close up/ side view. The one banner on the card in front was the first one and didn't work out exactly as I had wanted it but you can see I improved the placing of the banner on the others. I punched holes on the sides of the snowmen's neck to give me a place to string the bakers twine through for their scarves. I also added 'stick' arms by using a heavier jute I had laying around.

I used Versamark ink to stamp the snowflakes which are from Paper Smooches (thanks mom) If I make these cards again, I may do the stamping first along with some embossing. I have a lovely sparkle powder that I think would rock the front of these cards.

The banner was heat embossed and hand cut. Used a bit of foam tape to give the banner dimension and curled up the edges.

Two of these sweet guys were sent out by the kiddos and four are still living here. If you want them, drop me a line!!

christmas tag swap

In a scrapping group, we decided to have a Christmas tag swap. This is what I came up with for the group. 

I stamped the snowman using a Hero Arts stamp set (CL629- there is no name on this set) I then stamped the scarf on a piece of printed paper and cut it out. I also stamped the carrot nose on some scrap orange paper to cut out. The holly leaves were also cut out by hand. Colored the top hat as well as the snowmen. I am so happy with how they came out. But not sure I could cut out a ton of these. 

I stamped some snowflakes with white and versa ink on the kraft paper tags as well as the sentiment from the Hero Arts set and a To/ From wooden stamp I picked up at Michaels years ago. I popped the snowman up on the tag after adding a strip of washi tape to the bottom. I finished the tag with some natural twine to hang the tag on the gift.

Here is a side view of the snowman.

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