Snow Much Fun ft. Kate Hadfield Designs

 

 Hello everyone!  It’s very, very cold where I am in the Northeastern 

U.S. so an interactive winter project seems appropriate!  I'm creating

my card using products from

Kate Hadfield Designs

Let It Snow digital stamp set

  This digital stamp set has lots of images providing endless ideas.  For 

this particular card I’m only using one image.  Let me show you how 

I made it!

 

 

I started by cutting out my base pieces out of white card stock.  I

took a piece of 8.5” x 11” card and cut it lengthwise.  Then I scored

it at 2.75” and 8.25” and folded them both towards the center of

the card.  You can see a couple of smaller pieces, but I ended up

not using them.  The one on the very top of the pile will become the

focal interactive panel.

 

 

I chose my papers at this point.  I definitely needed one sheet for

the snowy parts of the card.  And I chose a pretty sky with stars for

the top panel.  I also finally found my slider dies (after looking forever!).

 

 

I printed out my focal and added a sentiment that I would trim

down later on.

 

 

I covered my base pieces with the patterned papers…snow on the bottom

and on the focal panel, and the pretty starry blue on the top.  I rounded all of

the corners.  After the glue was dry I cut my slider channel in the 

middle of the focal panel.

 

 

I put in the slider mechanism into the slider channel.  This was a round

glider that does not require any adhesive to stay in.  It’s like an empty

spool, so the paper holds it in.  The tiny spool part is also round.  I

later changed it out for a straight one, because my little girl was spinning

around like a top!

 

 

You’ll see that the front of the glider and the back of the glider look

exactly the same.

 

 

Next it was time to color!  Unfortunately I didn’t save my color list! I 

have provided a list below – sort of, but I was color-matching to my

background paper.

 

 

The coloring is done and it was fairly basic.  I went in after it was done

and added details to the hair and scarf with a fine line black pen.

 

 

I fussy cut the colored image and went around the edges with a black

marker.  I used a tiny heart stamp on her snowsuit.  I used Stardust

Stickles on her hat pompom, hat band and mitten cuffs.  I cut

of the fringe of the scarf, choosing not to try to cut it out!  I added

tiny heart sequins to each end of the scarf.  I added foam tape to the

top portion of the focal panel only.

 

 

The base is done and I placed the glider in the middle of the channel

and then used a glue dot to attach the sliding girl onto the glider making

sure that she covered the channel completely and the glider was mostly

in the middle of the piece.  Itwas at this point that I wished I had used 

a straight channel die.  She does move up and done, but it’s a bit of a

hard way down!  The straight one I have is too long for this project,

but I had another that was the same length, just less curvy.  But she

does work and I think she’s adorable!

 

 

I hope you give this project a try.  There are so many ways you could

make this card!

 

Supplies Used:

 

Let It Snow digital stamp set

White cardstock

Patterned paper

Slider die

Black fine liner pen

Black waterbased pen for the edging

Stardust Stickles

Glider mechanism

Foam tape

Tiny heart sequins

Tiny heart stamp

Ohuhu Markers: YR02, YR04, YR54

Copic Markers: YR30, YR31, YR23,

BV Mix and a pale V, BG mix,

C0, C01, C02, C03

 

Til next time…

 

Betsy

 

In my capacity as a design team member for Kate Hadfield Designs, I do receive the products I use from them. 

All opinions and creative decisions remain my own, and I only work with companies/use products that I love.