I don’t mean to create panic, but Christmas is in 12 weeks. Normally this wouldn’t even enter my mind at this point, but if you’re planning to make Christmas cards – and enjoy the process – you can’t start too late. Not if you’re like my sister who needs to send 90 cards…

So without further ado, here’s another card using the White Christmas set.

Base: 8.5″ by 5.5″ whisper white

Mat: 4″ by 5.25″ cherry cobbler

Top layer: 3.75″ by 5″ whisper white

Stamp set: White Christmas

Other: sponges, 2 way glue pen, dazzling diamonds glitter

Ink: Memento black ink, pool party, pumpkin pie stampin’ write marker, cherry cobbler blendabilities

This was a lot of fun to put together – I really like this set. I used the mask I’d made a couple of weeks ago (although it’s not really necessary) and dabbed some pool party onto the upper part of the card. Then, after removing the mask I stamped the trees from the stamp set and then the bird and snowman in memento black ink. I like that the snowman appears to be looking at the bird! I decided that the bird was a robin, so gave him a red breast with the blendatility markers as well as colouring in the hat and scarf. The snowman obviously needed a carrot nose so I grabbed my pumpkin pie marker and sorted that out. The glitter doesn’t show brilliantly in the photograph, but if you look closely you’ll see that I ran my 2 way glue pen along the hill and on the branches before sprinkling the card with the dazzling diamonds glitter. After adhering the top layer to the mat and the card itself, I lined the outside flap of the envelope with paper from the trim the tree stack. This was easy – I used the tombow glue to stick on the paper and then trimmed off the excess with the paper snips. I think the envelope looks quite Christmassy!