Hi, crafty friends. I have a simple card to share with you today. This doesn’t have a ton of dimension or a lot going on, it’s just coloring and a sentiment.

For this card I paired The O’Hare’s (I love the clever stamp names from Purple Onion Designs) with the Train Station from Purple Onion Designs. I made the train station green, there’s something about this particular green that feels very Christmas-y to me.

This is why! This image, taken from a TV advent calendar, is of the fictional character Skomaker Jens Petrus Andersen. He was the protagonist in this advent calendar and he lived (and had his shoe repair business) in this green house. If you’ve grown up in Norway after the ’70s (but before 2010), you undoubtedly know this character and this very green house. I get nostalgic just looking at the photo.

Back to the card. Once my coloring was done, I added my panel to a card base I created from Cornflower cardstock from My Favorite Things. I used the Stitched Happy Birthday rectangle die from Memory Box to die cut the word happy. The die cuts a rectangle with the words happy birthday inside, but I wanted the word happy for my card and cut it away from the rest. I stacked a few for strength and dimension and adhered it to the roof of the train station, adding a white heat embossed sub sentiment from the Snowflake Grove sentiment set to complete my sentiment. I thought the card looked a little plain and decided to add snow as an afterthought. Everything was assembled and glued together at this point, but I sprinkled on Chunky White embossing enamel from Stampendous anyway, and melted the granules from the back. It took a lot longer for them to melt than normal since the heat had to go through the card base as well, but I made sure to move my heat gun around. It did start smoking towards the end, but the card base is still blue and not burnt. Obviously, this is much better to do through just the one layer, but I didn’t want to pull the card apart, and I was careful with the heat gun. I also didn’t add a ton of snow, because I knew this would be tricky.

Lots of Copics for this one.