Ok, I admitted that I got no Christmas cards out to friends this year (all I had time for were cards for a few sick children and a handful of cards for my hubby’s relatives). \u00a0But one of my closest friends in NYC really needs some holiday cheer so I made this belated Christmas card for her.<\/p>\n

<\/a>This super fashionable girl from The Greeting Farm “Together Anywhere”<\/a><\/span> stamp set is perfect for my fashionista friend so I paper pieced her coat to resemble one that my friend has and colored her up with the following Copic colors:
\nHair: E21, 25 and 29
\nSkin: E50, 51, 53 and R20
\nBoots: N1, 4, 5, 7, and 9
\nScarf: R22, 24, 27 and 29
\nI also shaded in the paper pieced coat with N1 and drew in polka dots onto the tops of her boots to match the coat with a 0.1 pt Copic Multiliner pen.<\/p>\n

For the background, I used a Tsukineko VersaMarker Pen<\/a><\/span> to draw in irregular snowflake dots and heat embossed clear show flakes onto the white card stock. Then I blended in Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Tumbled Glass<\/a><\/span> so that the embossed snowflakes would create a resist. I loved the soft look of the\u00a0snow drifting down. Then I used the scalloped stitched rectangle die from the WPlus9 Sunshine Layers die set<\/a><\/span> to cut out the card front.<\/p>\n

<\/a>For the snowy ground, I used the Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside die<\/span> <\/a>to create a stencil over\u00a0which I used a palette knife to coat on DecoArt Snow-Tex<\/a><\/span>. \u00a0Oooh and an unexpected bonus was that the stitching from the make-shift die cut stencil\u00a0came through with the Snow-Tex so it matched the stitching around the scalloped rectangle card base! For\u00a0a little more snowy texture, I also used the Deco Art Snow Writer<\/a><\/span> to add more dimensional falling snow. And because I LOVE sparkle in snowy scenes, I topped all the Snow-Tex and Snow Writer with iridescent glitter glue–all the sparkle and shine with none of the mess! Doesn’t she look like she could be humming “Walking in a Winter Wonderland” as she walks along freshly fallen snow?<\/p>\n

For the inside sentiment, I formed the “warm winter wishes” stamp from the Lawn Fawn Baaah Humbug stamp set<\/a> <\/span>into a half circle shape on a stamping block and stamped it using Momento Luxe Tuxedo Black Ink. This ink stays wet a bit longer and is perfect to use for heat embossing, which I did with clear embossing powder. Then to create some continuity with the\u00a0patterned paper that I used to paper piece the girl’s coat, I added some hand cut fishtail banners at the lower left and upper right. I glued them in skewed pairs to add a bit of whimsy. \ud83d\ude42 Because they looked a little bare, I decided to top them with some black card stock snowflakes that I punched out with the\u00a0medium sized\u00a0corner punch from the Martha Stewart Aspen Snowflake Punch Around The Page Combo Set<\/a><\/span>and\u00a0coated with clear Wink of Stella for some more sparkle.<\/p>\n

The following is a video share of this card:<\/p>\n