Hi, crafty friends. You might think it’s early to be sharing the first Christmas card of the year already, but with the amounts of snow we’ve currently got, this Winter is coming image from Mo’s Digital Pencil was the perfect one to use. It’s been snowing, it’s been windy, it’s been chaos. I spent longer getting home from work than I spent AT work today. All the buses in the city were cancelled, trains across the entire eastern part of the country weren’t running, I tried the metro, but that didn’t work either, and they even had to shut down the main airport because the snow and wind combo was too much for the plows to handle, they couldn’t clear the runways before they filled back up with snow. This has only happened three times in the last 12 years, so it was kind of crazy. Evidently, the trams were running, but they’re mostly downtown and nowhere near me, so this card? Very fitting today.

I really don’t want the sentiment to come true right now, I don’t remember there ever coming this much snow in the city in such a short time, and I’d very much like to not have to walk to work tomorrow. I saw plenty of people out with their shovels today when I walked home, their cars were snowed in, their driveways were full of snow and they could barely open their front doors. It’s winter, we get it, but it’s enough now, we don’t need more snow.

I’m done venting. I think. I was originally planning on adding a stacked die cut where all the snow is, but then I came up with the idea of a shaker card instead. It’s kind of like the little person under the beanie is trapped inside the shaker with all the shaker bits, which I thought was a fun concept.

I used the Giant Let It Snow die from Lawn Fawn, covered my window with acetate and filled my shaker well with Distress Mica Flakes, a little bit of Rock Candy Distress Glitter and a small pile of embellishments from the Starry Night mix from Little Things from Lucy’s Cards.

I added my shaker panel to a top fold card base I created from Blueberry cardstock from My Favorite Things and decided not to add anything else.

Very simple color palette for this one.