A blog devoted to the cards I make in my tiny upstairs space. When my sister stays there, she calls it an "artist's garret". I'm not an artist, but am an enthusiastic cardmaker - hence the title "Cardmaker's Garret".
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Saturday 23 September 2023

A Reindeer in a Shaker and a Snowman

Some snowy stuff today.  First of all a reindeer in a snowy shaker for Shopping Our Stash "Shake It Up":


I die cut the snowglobe out of white cs and out of two layers of fun foam. I glued a circle of acetate between the white cs and the top layer of fun foam. I die cut a tree out of a scrap of green smooshed background and the deer out of a scrap of textured gold cs, and tore a scrap of white cs for snowy ground. I glued them all to the navy card base, sprinkled a little bit of Stampendous "Spoonful of Snow" on top and then added the snowglobe to the top of that. The sentiment is die cut from the same scrap of gold as the reindeer.

Since a shaker card looks different every time it's shaken, here's another view with less of the glittery snow in the sky:

My second card is a snowman for ABC Christmas Challenge "S for Snowman" and Sparkles Christmas Challenge "Build Me a Snowman".

I love this snowman because it rains more than it snows here in Vancouver so I love the fact that he has an umbrella!

Watercoloured, trimmed with a stitched rectangle die, popped up on fun foam on an off-white card base.

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Supplies for card 1:
Ink - green Distress inks
Paper - navy and white cs, gold textured cs
Size - A2
Accessories - small deer die, snowglobe die, Christmas tree die, Stampendous Spoonful of Snow, fun foam

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Serendipity snowman
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne
Paper - watercolour paper, off white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, MFT Wonky Stitched rectangle die, fun foam


7 comments:

  1. What a beautiful snowglobe with that golden deer! And you've colored a sweet snowman with his umbrella!

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  2. Love how that golden reindeer pops ... so glad you joined us at Shopping Our Stash for our Shake It Up Challenge.

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  3. Your snowglobe shaker is beautiful Susan. I LOVE that gold shimmery paper that you've used to cut the reindeer and the sentiment. And the colours of your shaker "snow" are so pretty against the dark blue background. Your snowman is so adorable. Definitely see more umbrellas here during winter than snow shovels. :) Adorable! xx

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  4. That is such a beautiful scene within the pretty snowglobe Susan and I love the added die cut tree and deer and the shaker element looks great. I knew straight away that the snowman was a Serendipity image, and seeing a snowman with an umbrella is a bit different, and you have coloured it wonderfully well and the wonky stitches mat shows it off well too. x

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  5. Love this snowman, Susan - such a classic image, and beautiful umbrella! A perfect image for your area, lol. Thanks so much for playing at Sparkles!

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  6. Gosh you have been busy creating. What a fantastic snowman card you've created and it is perfect for our challenge at Sparkles Christmas. Coloured beautifully too. Love it. Hugs Debs DT x

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  7. Fabulous cards - love your cute snowman!
    Thanks for playing at the ABC Christmas CHallenge!
    Helen x

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