If struggle and hard work ensures good results, then my card would be a Picasso.   Working on this card is pretty much all I have done today, and my craft room mess emphasizes this.  Trouble started early, when I realized that I didn’t really have any stamps sets with triangles on them for trees.  In fact, the only stamp set I had with varying sizes and solid and outline images was my circles set from Simon Says Stamp.  No problem, I say to myself…………..I will make snowmen instead of trees.  This proved problematic as well, as the graphic elegance of Laura’s card was impossible with snowmen as the image.  They are just cartoonish, and that is all.  No problem, I will make a fun version of the card.  More problems arose with ink selection, blah blah blah.  I finally got the card made, albeit with much darker colours than I intended, but then I went to embellish.  I found great little hats in my stash, but they were too big for the snowmen heads.  Yikes.

I started over, this time picking snow man heads that fit the hats and worked backwards from there.  This  time, I liked the results and the holographic cardstock that I used to frame the card finished it off nicely. The only remaining problem is that the camera doesn’t play well with shiny, sparkly things.  The card is actually nicer that it appears in a picture.

Supplies:  Lots of Dots Stamp Set from Simon Says Stamp,  Recollections glitter embossing powders in Mauve Blue and Green, Hero Arts and Simon Says Stamp dye inks, hats from Happy Howlidays  Lawn Fawn,  Glasses and bowtie from Stylish Simon, DCWV holographic cardstock, Happy Holidays sentiment stamp from Be Joyful stamp set from Simon Says stamp