Snowman Bonanza.

I'm not just a wee bit late but spectacularly late.

In my defence though I was having rather a nice time

playing with my new water colouring  pencils.

(Yep I splashed out  upmarket and bought some Derwents.)

I'm very pleased with them so far.. It's the old adage

of you get what you pay for. My cheapo ones kept breaking

and the coverage abysmal.

Anyways straight onto my makes.

It was time again for the girls in the Christmas Card Club

to show out latest cards.  Lorraine set the theme of

"Snowmen"

I had a delve into my used christmas card box and came up

with two likely card fronts to use.

 This first one was originally one long thin card which I simply cut 
in half to make the two portraits. 

You can just see a slight bloom on the bottom snowman

as they are both covered in acetate (back to my old favorite)

which has been cunningly adhered to the snowmen with ds.tape 

which is hidden behind the peel off  ivy on the front.

Both popped up on 3d pads for impact.

I have used check paper free with Making Cards

Christmas edition 2015  and the holly panels 

are by Sally Denton another magazine freebie.

Sentiment and edging is more stickers from my stash.

Second one.  I wanted to make an envelope card and this

Snoman card front was ideal for the purpose.

Again  I have used acetate on the front  flaps and secured 

to the paper with ds. tape hidden behind the holly leaves stickers.

The rather snazzy paper is old wrapping paper

that I salvaged from a present. There is no make

showing, just the number GW271.

The original card was this size  4"x4"and I simply neatened

the edges up and attached to white card and backed with 

the green check paper and then punched a hole for the

ribbon loop to go through.

Green check design paper a freebie from

Making Cards November 2015.

You can see in the photo below I caught a bit of reflection

from the acetate.

Ok. So then I turned my attention to my stash 

of digis, stamps, die cuts and so forth to see

what I could come up with snowman wise. 

I found a pile of snowman digis that I had purchased

 back in February and had printed off but not got round to using..

They are by From the Heart Stamps .com

This 'Snowlady with Cardinal' caught my eye and as I had 

just purchased the watercolour pencils whilst on holiday  last week

 decided to have a spuddle.

Once coloured I trimmed down using First Editions

Nesting Stamp die FEDIE012.

Green backing paper is a mag freebie by Sally Moret.

Christmas tree paper is a digi paper by Bearly Mine

'Christmas Fun no 11'

Polka dot paper and sentiment star a mag  freebie by Sally Denton.

These are both covered with acetate which has been raised up with

 3d pads which are hidden behind the silver sticker stars.

 Another cunning ploy.

I was really pleased with the pencils so kept going

whilst I was on a winning streak!!

The next digi  is called 'Snowman Hugs'.

Pink paper is a freebie from Making Cards Christmas Edition 2015

Green paper is by Sally Denton again s freebie in a magazine. 

I adhered the image to the green paper and then covered with  a piece

of acetate cut to size and adhered with silver brads.

Raised up using 3d pads.

Sentiment is  a black sticker from my stash.

I'm only using 150gsm smooth colouring card so 

I'm pleased with the shading  just from the pencils and water to blend.

Whilst the two above were drying prior to being made into the cards

I coloured another one up. Well it was on my desk so why not!

This one is called " Snowman and Holly Chicks"

Again I have used acetate but this time it covers

the whole front of the card and is attached by the spine only

under the green trim which is in fact design paper edging.

After colouring I trimmed to size with Spellbinders

Labels Twenty Six S4-366.

I found the gold snowman stickers in my stash and thought

they looked good as they have top hats too.

Sentiment and stars are also stickers from my stash.

Backing paper is a digi  'Words Red' from the Simply Joy too

collection by Nitwits.

By now I''m so late that colouring one last one up 

really wasn't an option!

This one is called  " Peeking Snowman".

Once coloured I trimmed down using Crafts Too Square dies.

Acetate was also cut using the same size die and adhered to the front

using black/white spot brads from my stash.

Sentiment is a black glitter sticker from my stash.

Snow flake paper a freebie from Making Cards Christmas Edition 2015.

Bow paper is  a digi  from Pink Petticoat  Joyeux Noel "Gift Bows".

Six more cards to add to the Christmas stash.

Sorry I am so late with them Lorraine  but I was on 

a winning streak!!

I'm going to take these over to

Pixies Crafty Workshop #237 Use up your snippets.( Papers were all snippets).

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper #  Anything goes.

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge Extra # Anything goes.