We were supposed to get our first snow today, but the sun is shining and once again, the weather forecast was incorrect. I don't mind, but I have been playing with snow in my craft room!
*Snowmen* that is! Once again putting these darling postage stamps to work. I just can't help myself! The postage theme seems to slip into my creative process in the tiniest of ways lately. I ink blended the background and stamped a vintage postcard image as well as some script, distressing the panel once again all around the edges to give it a vintage look.
Pulling out this old snowman die from Impression Obsession. He didn't have a winter hat to keep him warm so I improvised with another hat die that had to be altered to fit his big head. He's all frosted up with some Tim Holtz chunky Rock Candy.
The greens and poinsettia are from various die sets found in my stash from Spellbinders.
I have a "twofer" for you today, featuring this darling snowman from Tim Holtz. This is actually a box that I made to fit some homemade Christmas tags to give to a friend.
I created the box using wood grain cardstock, running Lost Shadow Distress Ink along the box itself and Speckled Egg Distress Ink on the top panel, running the wood grain in the opposite direction. To that, I used texture paste through a snowy stencil to create raised snowflakes. Once it was dry, I brushed on some golden stickles.
The snowflake is included in the same set as the snowman while the "wish" sentiment is from another Tim Holtz set. The "wish" is cut from gold mirror card stock, which I pounced black soot paint over the top until almost dry. Then I rubbed the rest of the paint off and went over it again with Walnut Stain Distress Ink and let it dry to a nice tarnished finish.
More of that beautiful Rock Candy Glitter spread selectively over the whole scene to complete the box. The taped corners are intentional. I distressed some washi tape to make it look like old masking tape.
I'll be adding one of these cards to the following challenges:
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