Happy snowmen tag

Hi friends! I hope you had a good weekend and got some (or even better, a lot of) crafty time.

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Time flies and the autumn semester always feels very short. We had our first night of frost tonight. This week we have a Christmas/Winter theme at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. I hope you will join us! Don't miss the gorgeous project by our September guest designer Kerry B. 

I love snowmen and creating snow in different ways on projects and had fun creating these fuzzy snowmen. The background is watercolor paint. I also used a few other interesting surfaces: matte silver paper, velvet paper and vellum. Experiment and see what you can come up with.

I used Tim Holt's Vault Winter Wishes set for the snowmen, snowflake and lamp post. I wanted dimension and die cut the snowmen quite a few times from thick white cardstock first. The lamp post was die cut from black paper and from Simon Says Stamp Matte Silver Cardstock. The carrot, twig arms and parts of the hats and scarves were die cut from Simon Says Stamp cardstock and the rest from left-over watercolored paper.

 I die cut the front of the snowmen from Simon Says Stamp Velvet Luxury Cardstock. The back piece was die cut from black glitter cardstock and I cut a piece of Lemon glitter cardstock to glue behind the light.

Glue them together with Simon Says Stamp Craft Glue and add a Clear Pawsitively Dazzling Gem to the hats.

The background was painted with watercolor paint and then I crumbled up a piece of plastic wrap and placed on top. Leave the plastic in place until the paint is dry. The plastic wrap in the photo is not the one that I used (that had been tossed in the bin already). 

I die cut a few snowflakes from the matte silver paper too.

The large snowflake from Vault Winter Wishes was die cut from Simon Says Stamp Vellum. The sentiment comes from Simon Says Stamp Seasons Greetings.

I added more snow in the form of Clear Pawsitively Dazzling Gems. 

The snowmen are very fuzzy, with a hint of glitter. The darker blue to the right is also Velvet paper.

This sentiment was the perfect length for a border.

Here you can maybe see the glitter buttons and eyes better.

The plastic wrap technique form cool patterns that made me think of icy crystals.

I dyed May Arts Faux Wrinkled Silk Ribbon with dye ink and used a piece of organza which I found on my desk.

Here you can see the dimension of the snowmen and the lamp post.

Join us this week in our Christmas/Winter challenge! You have a chance to win a $25 gift voucher to do some fun shopping at Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

Just one day left of STAMPtember®! It has been a fantastic month!

Do you use Instagram? If so please add #sssmchallenge so we can see your entries there too.

Thank you so much for stopping by here today! See you again soon!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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