Sparkling Snowman Card

Good Evening!
Tonight I want to share another Christmas card with you. I have made a snowman card with lots of glitter and sparkle goodness. Its also an easel card. I am in love with this style but am anxious to try a criss-cross card; very soon! But, I digress, lol. Back to tonight's card. I made this card in my favourite Christmas colour combination - blue and silver :). My Christmas ornaments are all in these colours with a few pink ornaments thrown in.
There are 2 challenges running this week that just went hand in hand together so this card is being submitted to:
52 Christmas Card Throwdown - June Theme "Snowman"

The Squirrel and The Fox - Challenge #20 Make It Sparkle
Papertake Weekly - Bingo (ribbon, gems & punches)
The Crazy Challenge - CCH #122 A Recipe: Use atleast 3 of the following items Ribbon/Twine, Gems/Pearls, Dies/Punches
Robyn's Fetish Challenge Blog - Challenge #112 Anything Goes
ATC's and Cards With Attitude - CHALLENGE 16 ANYTHING GOES

Sketchy Colors - Challenge #122 Sketch

Here is my card for these challenges:

Fully Open

 Close-up of top section

See how the ribbon sparkles?

 Close-up of bottom section

Here you can see how the snowflakes sparkle

View from the side to show dimension

Card closed up

Supplies I Used:

Cardstock - Recollections

Patterned Paper - DCWV

"Snow Friends" stamp set - CTMH

Punches - Martha Stewart "Aspen Snowflake" PATP and Paper Shapers "Snowflake" punch

Silver Ribbon - Offray

Rhinestones - Michael's

"Moonstruck" (blue) ink - CTMH

For the silver snowflakes, I punched them from Bee Creative 2-sided tape sheets and attached them to snowflakes punched from cardstock. I then covered them with "Silver" Glitter Ritz and added the blue rhinestone.

The falling snowflakes are made with glue and Glamour Dust. I also added Glamour Dust all around the outside edge of my snowman and the outer edge of my sentiment.

The snow on either side of my snowman was made with Flower Soft.

My snowman was coloured with the following Copics: B02, R24, R29 & YR07.

That is my post for today. Thanks so much for stopping by to look at my card. Leave a comment for me and I will comment back; follow me and I will follow you too! I am off the have a look at some of your cards now :)

Hugs xo

Happy Birthday

Addicted To Stamps is celebrating their 1st Birthday with a blog hop and a card challenge. Guess what their first challenge is.....cake (of course) and/or stitching. I did both on my card and the stitching was even done by hand. I am also entering this card in this week's Pile It On challenge which is Sparkle & Shine. The cupcake patterned paper is very glittery although it doesn't show up in the picture.

The Crazy Challenge and Card Makin Mamas both want to see "Girly" cards so I will enter this card in both of their challenges as well. This card is also being entered into 365 Cards Day 55 - On The Fringes challenge where you had to have atleast 4 different 'fringes' on your card that you made yourself. Aren't edge punches awesome! They help add such dimension to our creations. Lets not forget Simon Says Stamp where the challenge this week is Anything Goes.

Here is the front of my card:

The inside with a good close up of my stitching:

Here is the full view of my card. As you can see, it is another easel card lol.

As it has been a long day and the surgical site on my neck is giving me a lot of pain tonight, I will be back later to list the materials I used.

Thanks for stopping by :)
Hugs xo