Hi, crafty friends. It’s no secret that I love a lot of the cute characters that pop up around Christmas. Reindeer, snowmen, penguins, polar bears; give me all of them (please leave Santa out, he’s creepy). Today’s card features an adorable snowman from the Snow folk  stamp set from Lili of the Valley.

I colored my snowman with Copics, added black Glaze to his eyes, then a white dot using a Gelly Roll 05 once the black was dry. I also used the white to add the white dots to his hat. I fussy cut my snowman, leaving a thin white trim around him, before putting him to the side to work on the rest of my card. I covered my card base with patterned paper from Maja Design. This frosty blue paper is from the Vintage Frost Basics collection from 2013, the sheet’s called 13th of December. I used the Notebook Edge die from My Favorite Things to create a fun border on a piece of Stamper’s Select White cardstock from Papertrey Ink. I used Light & Fluffy Modeling Paste from The Crafter’s Workshop to create snow through the Falling Snow stencil from Simon Says Stamp. While the paste was still wet, I sprinkled on Rock Candy distress glitter for an even frostier effect, and mounted my white panel with foam tape to my card front.

I stamped and white heat embossed a sentiment from the Christmas Greetings stamp set from Lili of the Valley onto a scrap piece of the patterned paper, before using a die from the Itty Bitty Strips die set from My Favorite Things to turn it into a banner. I also die cut a white banner, grouped the two together and adhered them to the back of my snowman, which I mounted using foam tape. I finished off with a few snowflakes I die cut using the Snowflake Confetti Fancy die from Hero Arts. Sadly, this die is discontinued, but the snowflakes it creates are the perfect size, so I probably won’t ever stop using it!!

Simple color palette for this one. Lots of blues.