Hi crafty friends! Today is National Cat Day, which was founded in 2005 to celebrate the love of cats as well as raise awareness about the number of cats that need to be rescued each year. So I started off my day with giving lots of cuddles to my two 6-month-old cats. They are such a joy! 🙂
Today I got a jump on holiday card making with a snowman image from Holiday Tag Team stamp set by Stampin’ Up. I particularly chose this stamp set for ‘ABC’ Challenge #51 since it’s the oldest one I have. It was released in 2004 and then retired, but I was lucky to find it at a local flea market a couple of years ago. By the way, I created this window card inspired by a sketch from CAS on Sunday #20. I also was trying to make this one layer card for Addicted to CAS #25, but I failed to meet their criteria at the end.
I started off with a piece of Papertrey kraft cardstock which I cut to A2 size. Then I created my own background using polka dot stencil from Heidi Swapp: I placed the stencil over the card front, picked some white inks using a sponge dabber, and inked all over the open areas. Next, I die-cut a circular window with My Favorite Things’ Circle Die-namics so that I achieve the “looking through the window” effect when the card is closed.
After that, I die cut the circle using same die out of white cardstock, stamped the snowman image in black, colored it  with Copic markers, and attached my image on the inside of the card. I finished off the snowman with liquid pearls on his hat.
Next, I stamped the sentiment from Mama Elephant Good Times set on the card front and heat embossed it using black embossing powder. I repeated heat embossing one more time with red embossing powder onto a piece of kraft cardstock, and trimmed the sentiment in a banner shape. Then I adhered the banner over the black embossed area to slightly show the black shadow for some dimension.
By the way, these are the supplies I used to create my card: Cuttlebug machine, Copics, heat tool weren’t pictured. Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a fabulous day!
May Park
jane ayres
wonderful card … thankyou for joining us at the paper nest dolls challenge x jane papernest dolls design team x
Nov . 09 . 2013stampersuzz
Adorable card and love the window with the snowman peeking through the window. Thank you for joining us at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge.
Nov . 03 . 2013Rosie
Very cute card, great layout and image. Thank you for joining us this week at “ABC Challenges”. Xx Rosie
Nov . 03 . 2013Lee-Ann
Too cute…thanks for playing along with us at DCD!
Nov . 03 . 2013lauren
oh my gosh, that image is just too cute and you’ve made it into an utterly lovely holiday card! thanks for joining our “creature feature” fun at JINGLE BELLES! ♥
Nov . 03 . 2013Danielle Vincent
This is soooo cute!! I love the kraft base with the wonderful white polka dots. I can see why you love this stamps. Thanks so much for joining us this week at ABC Challenges.
Nov . 03 . 2013michelle
How fabulous! Thanks so much for playing with us this week at Craftin Desert Diva. Hope to see you again soon 🙂
michelle
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Cris G.
Such a CAS beauty, May! I love your stamped image inside the card, the polka dots pattern… and the banner. There is anything left not to love 🙂
Nov . 02 . 2013Karal
What a great card. and the image is so cute. Thanks for joining us this week for “Anything Goes.”
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sandra
beautiful Cas card May, love how you did the polkadot background, very creative!
Nov . 02 . 2013Thanks for joining the TTCRD challenges!
Hugs,Sandra
Jasmina
Awwww, your card is sooooo sweet! Love it! Thank you for joining our Anything goes challenge at The Paper Nest Dolls.
Nov . 02 . 2013Jasmina DT PND
Jenny
Super cute! Thanks for playing at Sister Act Card Challenge. We’d love for you to consider trying out for our design team.
Nov . 01 . 2013margaretgilmer
So cute. Thanks for joining us at Tammy’s Scrapin Corner for this challenge.
Nov . 01 . 2013Margaret, DT
SmilynStef
Love the picture of your supplies … such a cute little holiday card … so very glad you joined our Creature Feature at Jingle Belles.
Nov . 01 . 2013Marie Bingaman
This is really cute! 🙂
Nov . 01 . 2013Glittertastic
I saw this on MIM – love the CAS style and the polka dot stencilling
Sharon
Oct . 31 . 2013x
declerckanneke
The first one is an eyecatcher! Love it! Thanks for joining the CAS on Sunday challenge!
Oct . 30 . 2013Kerry
Such a beautiful card, thank you for sharing over at MIM, Hugs Kerry DT xx
Oct . 30 . 2013Sandie
adorable card and I love the kraft base x
Oct . 30 . 2013Loz
Gorgeous card and colors May. Spotted this on MIM..Loz
Oct . 30 . 2013Ardyth
This is really sweet! Thanks for joining us at Muse this week, May!
Oct . 30 . 2013Janet swanlady21
Love the dots – adds to the snowy feel. Thanks for playing in this week’s MUSE card club challenge.
Oct . 30 . 2013Anja curvers
Such a great card love it. Thank you for sharing this with us over at CAs on sunday.
Oct . 30 . 2013Kylie
It is a wonderful card!! Even though it didn’t end up being one layer, it is so lovely!!! Thanks so much for playing along at ATCAS xx
Oct . 29 . 2013laurafadora
Such an adorable card!
Oct . 29 . 2013