Shake that Snow Globe and make it Snow!!

 Hello friends, family and followers, it's the 4th of the month and time for a new Christmas Challenge at Happy Little Stampers. I am not keeping up with my Holiday card count so at some point I'm going to have to double up. As always the Christmas challenge is anything goes but there is an option of making a snow globe card/ 

I decided to go the Snow Globe route but not your average one I made a "tourist" type snow globe featuring Santa. I made it into a Mini Slimline card. 3.25 X 6.25

I die cut the globe/scene 4 maybe 5 times out of 100 pound white cardstock and glued them together after that was done I thought hmm was going to cut the insides out of them to make it a shaker, but it was deep enough to add some tiny beads, I then added a piece of acetate and another die-cut. For the backing I found a scrap of inky background that fit the bill. I added the tiny beads and glued the back on the snow globe. To finish the front I dug out some starform sentiments and snowflakes. 

Here is a look at the height of the die cuts.

I finished the inside with a scrap of white and navy with a piece of the background paper and a Impression Obsession sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by today and check out the inspiration the rest of the design team have made. 

Happy Little Stamper Christmas ~~ September Edition.

 Oh my goodness it's September where oh where has Summer gone?  As much time as I can spare I have spent Summer at the cottage,  I try to do my crafting there, unfortunately sometimes I'm missing a major part of the card I'm doing and have to wait until I get home, drawback is I don't get to use the lake as a backdrop. 

As you see the challenge is Anything Goes but there is an option of Non-Traditional, I love non-traditional colours, Pink has become very popular for Christmas now, as Pink Christmas for breast cancer so I decided to to a different route for my card.

I decided that my new Non-Traditional colours are Teal/Turquoise and Purple.  I coloured the penguins (they were a printed image in my stash when I find the owner I will post)  First time using the snowglobe die, although I could have just cut the base but I wanted to stress myself out by trying to glue that tiny frame and as a result it's a tad crooked. The frame and base are silver (the base picked up on my skintone, didn't notice until I put it on the computer)  I use 5 1/2 inch square bases I buy from Len's Mills store 5 in a package and they include the envelopes. there is a purple layer and a teal layer and the white is dry embossed with Gently Falling EF from Stampin'up.  I die cut the snowbank added an ancient "rub on" sentiment and popped up the penguins finished it off with my attempt at using nuvo drops. 

Close up of the penguins

Now on to the inside 

The inside was finished with a couple of curly scraps and a sentiment from Stampendous.

I'm adding this to:

The Jingle Belles Rock ~~  Cookies for Santa I picked snowglobe and the purple/teal colours

Thanks for visiting today and get your Christmas mojo going and enter Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge.