To start the card I cut a piece of white cardstock to 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". After I had cut it to size, I ran it through my die cut machine using the largest die from the Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangle Stackables. I wanted to have that stitching detail around the edge of my cardstock. (You could just run your paper through your die cut machine without cutting it to size first and the die will cut it to perfectly fit an A2 sized card and add the stitching all at the same time. I was making multiples of this card and I wanted to get as many pieces from one piece of cardstock as possible.)
After I had the stitching detail on my cardstock, I needed to make it a frame. I used the third from the largest die in the Memory Box Rectangle Basics die set to cut the middle out of the piece. After I made this cut, here is what I was left with:
I saved the middle to use to stamp my images. The images I used were from the Lawn Fawn Making Frosty Friends stamp set. I stamped both snowmen, hat, scarf, and one of the little birds. I stamped two each of the hat and scarf. After all images were stamped, I added the buttons to both snowmen as well.
Next I used my Copic markers to color each image. I am by no means an expert. I would actually consider myself a Copic beginner. I'm not even sure that I actually do my shading properly. I just do what comes to me. 😉 I do enjoy coloring, always have. Especially with markers. There's just something about a marker-colored picture to me that is quite special. After all the images were colored, here's some of what I ended up with:
To color the hats I used W7, W8, and W10. I also used W7 for the buttons on each of the snowmen. For the carrot noses and the bird's beak, I used YR04 and YR07. I colored most of the images with shades of blues. (To me, blue is just a standard winter color.) For the bird I used R24 and R29 for it's scarf and it's body was colored using B91 and B93. I did a darker and lighter blue for the stripe on the hat and scarf. The darker shade of blue was colored with B34 and B37. The lighter blue shade is BG02 and BG05.
After I had colored all of the images, I cut them out using the coordinating dies.
Once all my images had been die cut, I needed a snowy hill for them to rest on. I cut another piece of white cardstock to 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". I ran it through my die cut machine with a circle die. I taped it to the bottom of the panel, which gave me a half circle type of shape that I needed to represent my snowy bank.
Anyway, after I had my snowy hill it was time to get the background. I cut a dark blue piece of cardstock to the same size as my card, 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". I wanted a little sparkle on it, so I sprayed it with Tsukineko Shimmer Spritz. It turned out so pretty and sparkly! You can't really see how much shimmer it actually has in the picture, but it is very shimmery!
Once it was dry, which happened very quickly I must add, I used my Stampin' Up Embossing Buddy to get the cardstock ready for the embossing powder.
Once prepped for embossing, I used my MISTI to stamp my sentiment (from the same stamp set). I double stamped it with Versamark ink. I double stamped it because the cardstock had a little bit of texture to it and I wanted to make sure that I had gotten a good impression. I embossed it using Ranger white embossing powder and heat set it with my heat tool.
Now that all of my pieces were finished, I just needed to put it together. I added my snowy hill first. Next I added the white frame.
Lastly, I added my cute little snowmen. And....my card project was completed.
I really appreciate you stopping by today! Hope that you will find some "wintery" inspiration! Until next time, I hope that you have a blessed day!!
