Hello friends! Today I wanted to share a little Christmas in July with a couple of my favorite past Small Die of the Month Club Kit die collections: The Snowman Builder and Gilded Tags & Frames. The Snowman Builder is the first month I signed up for the Small Die of the Month with Spellbinders. I can't believe this awesome limited edition set is still available! It's one of my all-time favorites. Today I'm sharing a couple of quick and easy snowman scene cards with this set and even throwing in the a Gilded Tags & Frame die on one of the cards to show how awesome these mix and match. Let's get started:
I'm a big fan of scene cards so I started out both cards by using a MFT Drifts and Hills Stencil to mask off the bottom of each Bristol Smooth Cardstock panel and inked above the stencil with Blueprint Sketch Distress Oxide Ink. Over the blue sky background I used the Simon Says Stamp Falling Snow Stencil and Lawn Fawn Yeti Pigment Ink to create the illusion of falling snow in the background.
I let the backgrounds air dry completely. You can also speed up the process by hitting them with a heat tool to help the ink dry faster.
Sentiments from the Mama Elephant Season's Greetings and Peaceful Wishes stamp sets were stamped directly on the background for the card on the left with clear embossing ink and heat setting with white embossing powder.
The snowmen for each card were die cut from a combination of cardstock or glitter cardstock using the The Snowman Builder dies and assembled to each background as shown. Detail was added to the scarves with a little white pigment ink and an opaque white pen. Glossy Accents was added to the carrot noses on both and Nuvo Crystal Drops in Gloss White were added to the eyes.
Aa Gilded Tags & Frame die was used to die cut Black Velvet cardstock and a Mama Elephant Retro Holiday Labels sentiment was stamped and embossed on the frame and the snowmen arms were positioned to look like the they're holding up the signage!
Click HERE to see another card I created with the March 2018 Small Die of the Month Club Kit Dies, Gilded Tags and Frames.
V I D E O T U T O R I A L
Watch the creation of these new cards featuring past club kit dies from start to finish below or click HERE to watch in HD:
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Hi Nichol. Your snowmen are so cute. I love the blueprint sketch for the blue sky background. It really makes your snow really pop. Simon is out of the Season's Greetings stamp sets and the link to Ellen brings up a different stamp set. I checked Mama Elephant and they have it in stock. Just some info for your other fans. Thanks for the video.
Posted by: Kirsten | July 21, 2018 at 05:37 AM
I love how you mix and match stamps and dies from different companies Nichol to create your designs on your projects I feel it allows us crafters to do the same with ours too. There are so many different companies out there with a variety of stamps/dies etc. that are amazing and so great to use that why waste them only using one company. I think you demonstrating how these do go together well is so great and each project demonstrates that looking at the detail before and during assembling them is important in order to create a fabulous scene. Which you have with both of these Christmas in July cards. :o) xx
Posted by: lorraine turner | July 21, 2018 at 06:32 AM
What an adorable cute card! :)
Posted by: Karthikha Uday | July 21, 2018 at 09:16 AM
Gorgeous cards and just in time to cool me down, it is very hot here so thank you so much@
Posted by: Henriëtte | July 21, 2018 at 04:20 PM
These are so adorable Nichol!
Posted by: Gab | July 21, 2018 at 08:42 PM
Gorgeous and fun cards!!!
Posted by: Kirsty VIttetoe | July 22, 2018 at 06:31 PM