I stamped the image with Ranger Archival Potting Soil ink and coloured it with a mix of Faber-Castell + Lyra watercolour pencils and Tombow pens. I paper-pieced the scarf and hat using Bo Bunny Snowfall designer paper from their 6" x 6" pad and added a small amount of shading using a grey Tombow pen. After fussy-cutting the scarf and hat, I went around the edges with a Pitt Artist Walnut Brown pen to hide any imperfections in my cutting. I lightly coloured around the image using Kaisercraft blue chalk. The image and teal circle layers were diecut using my Big Shot and Lifestyle Nesting Circle dies.
The designer paper on the card base is also from the Bo Bunny Snowfall collection and is a 12" x 12" sheet called Blizzard. This collection is from 2011 and is therefore long-retired yet it still remains one of my most favourite all-time releases. The teal cardstock on the card base was trimmed to a 1/8" using my Perfect Layers Tools. I glued the finished card to a white card base using Tombow Mono Multi glue which gave me enough wriggle-time to get the card exactly where I wanted leaving a very small white border.
The sentiment is from Penny Black from their Holiday Snippets set. It was stamped using Versamagic Ocean Depth chalk ink and diecut using a Lawn Fawn Slide-on-Over die for the sentiment as it was the perfect size. I added a blue Couture Creations gemstone either side of the sentiment.
The snowflakes were diecut from white glitter cardstock using a Kaisercraft Mini Snowflakes die set which has 8 different-sized snowflakes and two different-sized 8-pointed stars. I added a blue Couture Creations gemstone to the snowflake centres. I glued just the centres of the snowflakes down using Tombow Mono Multi glue and bent the arms up a little to give the snowflakes some dimension.
I tied on a teal organza ribbon from my stash, added Fray Stop to the cut ends to stop them from fraying then added a diecut star using teal glitter cardstock from the Kaisercraft Mini Snowflakes die/star set and glued it on using Fabric Glue.
I glued some Stampendous Cotton White Fun Flock mixed with a little bit of white glitter to the teddy bear's hat plus the snow on the ground using Tombow Mono Aqua glue. The falling snow around the bear is Nuvo Glitter drops in White Blizzard which gave the snow a lovely sparkle and added a bit of dimension.
Lastly, I used a Pitt Artist Walnut Brown pen to go over the eyes and nose to darken them up a little then used a white gel pen to add some highlights.
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Sat, Dec 30, 2017 @ 8:50 PM
Ever so SWEET image with fabulous coloring and shading! Lovely bg patterned snowflake paper. Love the rhinestoned snowflakes and the pretty ribbon and bow with star embellishment.
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Sun, Dec 31, 2017 @ 12:57 AM
Just beautiful. I'm nearly at the end of my BoBunny Altitude and it looks as if I should check this one out. Oh, I see it's retired! Your colouring is fabulous and the ribbon is such a beautiful finishing touch.