Cricut Cardz Challenge #58

Well, here we are settled into another winter.  What image reminds us of winter more than a snowman.  The challenge this week at Cricut Cardz is to make a card using any snowman image for any occasion using any colors and any cartridge.  I needed a birthday card for my father-in-law so I decided to use this happy snowman from the Smiley Cards cartridge. This is my first card I've made using this cartridge that ProvoCraft offered to Gypsy owners.  It has some really cute images on it and they're all fun and cheerful looking.  The base card is 5 1/4" square also cut from Smiley Cards and the snowman is cut at 4".  I like the card because it has a cute little scallop at the bottom.  All the papers are scraps from my scrap bin. You'll see what a great job I'm doing of using those scraps if you look at my last post and see I've used the same patterned paper.  I didn't realize I'd even done that until I was checking this post last night.  If I had realized it, I never would have made two cards from the same paper to post just days apart.  Oh well, too late now.  I keep using those scraps, but it never looks like I even make a dent in them.  Does anyone else have this problem, or is it just me?  I hope you can join us at Cricut Cardz this week with a snowman card of your own.  There are so many to choose from on lots of different cartridges.  Thanks for stopping by.

Project Tuesday Shaker Card/SASSC36

I'm really excited about how this card turned out. Two reasons--I've never made a shaker card and I hand drew my snowman image. My husband is starting to question whether I really need soooooo many digital stamps every time he see's a receipt. So to hush him for awhile I thought I'd give a little drawing a try. My pencils are rusty, but I thought a snowman would be pretty simple. After drawing with a pencil I outlined it with black marker, colored with Copics, then cut him out. I used the great sketch from The Fresh Batch Thursday Challenge.(http://sasthefreshbatch.blogspot.com/2009/10/stamps-and-smiles-sketch-challenge_15.html)

I have to admit I cheated a little with the shaker box though. I had some acetate for the window but I didn't have any dimensional foam to mount it on. But I did have this little window that I had saved from some clear stamps I bought with just a project like this in mind. I made my snow that is inside the shaker box by rubbing two pieces of styrofoam together to "grate" some off. Then I added some Martha Stewart crystal coarse glitter for a little extra sparkle. This wonderful tip for making faux flower soft came from Holly at Hog Wild About Stamping.
(http://hogwildaboutstamping.blogspot.com/). She's just a genius to figure out how to make this stuff and even color it. Thanks, Holly! I thought the little snowball fringe would be the perfect embellishment around my snowman window. The snowflakes came from Cricut's Don Juan cartridge. I added a small bow with a star in the center to finish this card off. This card will go to my 3 year old granddaughter Payton. I made her new baby sister a blue polar bear card a couple days ago (see post below). I didn't want Payton to be jealous of Paige's fuzzy (fun flock) card. I thought she would enjoy shaking the snow around on this card.