I was in need of a sympathy card and wanted to use flowers and I had this set from my advent calendar that I hadn't used yet and thought I would go with a cream/tan theme for this card.
Although we are lucky to have not had any of the past snow I know a lot who have so why not end the month with some snowmen. In my card group I was supposed to come up with a challenge for our last week of snow challenge and I went with challenging the group to get out those snowmen dies and if they didn't have snowmen dies they could use their circle dies to make their own snowmen.
My card uses the snowmen dies from Tim Holtz that Simon Says stamps offered if you bought some Tim Holtz items. I liked them because they are a good size for cards and still able to make a scene, which I did with a border die and sponged the background and added some white gel pen snow.
For this bird challenge I decided to use one of the Robin layered stamps I have, along with a jar and flowers stamp and die set I have recently bought. I know the ribbon die turned out quite dark in the picture but it matched the red in the paper.
Getting more Christmas cards done, I recently bought this deer die cut and so I just had to make it for our deer challenge in my stamp group. I decided to make a couple while I was at it just changing up the framing and some of the extras that came in this die set. I added marker touches to them to give a little depth.
Going through more of my guy images for my next birthday card, this little guy was perfect for another mini slimline card. I added some gold pen around the edges to go with the gold in the papers, and some metal accents. The bird was popped up on foam tape.
