TSOL Cut It Out Snow Globe

This card is fairly simple to make once you get the digital file created. Take the snow globe from the Stamps of Life Nov 09 Digital Set and enlarge it to about 4 inches high. The pixels in the image start to show but you can sharpen it to get rid of most of the effect. Position it on the paper so when you print it you have enough paper left above it to fold over to make a card. The rest of the images on the card are from the same set. Simply position, color and resize them. After you print it out, fold the card so part of the globe ends up on the back and you have a hinge at the top. Cut around the outside of the remainder of the globe to make a 4" globe card.  For the trees I left them black and white on the print out and colored them by hand with green. The red on the trees is Stickles glitter along with the gold on the base and the white on the snowman. The snowman is sitting on top of some of the white foamy snow you can get in the craft stores. Spread a thin later out and texture it and then let it dry until it hardens. It you are careful enough, you can put the snow and glitter on in one sitting. Otherwise, you might want to let the glitter dry before you do the snow.

The Stamps Of Life Digital Snow Globe Blue Shaker

Update:
This card has been featured on The {Stamps} of Life Blog and I have written up a project sheet with many more details than I blogged about that is available as a {Stamps} of Life Web Site Free Project.

Digital Stamps Of Life Halloween Card

This is a purely digital card front I created a few weeks ago. It was created using FotoFusion and the Sept 09 and Oct 09 Stamps of Life Digital Stamps. It's fairly straightforward to create. You just create an empty photo frame filled with black and then a smaller one on top of it filled with magenta to get the background. For the digital stamps, you just import the images, place and resize them then adjust the fill colors. Most of the stamps in the center have been enlarged. The bat only came in one size but I adjusted each one to make it appear they were at different distances. The only difficult thing about creating this card was that I ended up with so many objects on the screen and on different layers that it got difficult to grab the right one to make changes.

The Stamps Of Life November Christmas Card Color Challenge

Here's the entry I came up with last night for this month's The Stamps Of Life Color Challenge. All the stamps are from the November 09 Set. Here's how I created it.

1. Stamp the snow globe in black on Stampin' Up! Old Olive cardstock. Try to stamp it as straight as possible or else it will show later when you mount the white/rose strip.
2. Color the base of the snowglobe using the Stampin' Up! Rose Romance marker. Since you are coloring on green, it comes out a brownish color, but it ends as a great match for other colors.
3. Stamp the snowflakes onto the background using Colorbox Frost White stamp pad. Start with the largest one first and space them out and then randomly fill in with the smaller two snowflakes in the set. This ink is extremely wet and juicy and you may need to let it set a while before it completely dries so be careful with the card after this step. The stamp pad is also very spongy so you only need to use very light pressure in inking the stamp.
4. Stamp the snowman on white cardstock.
5. Fussy cut out the snowman (and his little arms).
6. Secure the snowman to the front of the card well because its gets glittered later and you don't want it to crinkle up. I used a light coat of Scrappy Glue.
7. Cut a strip of Stampin' Up! Rose Romance cardstock just wide enough for the Christmas stamp.
8. Cut a strip of Stampin' Up! Rose Red slightly larger to go underneath that.
9. Cut a strip of white paper to go under the Rose Red.
10. Stamp "merry CHRISTMAS" on on the Rose Romance paper in black.
11. Mount the Rose Romance paper on the Rose Red and the result onto the white strip.
12. Now you get to see how straight you stamped the snowglobe. Without adhesive, line the mounted strips with the bottom line on the snow globe and check how things will work out. Mine looked straight but was off by just enough that 5 1/4 inches of paper magnified the error enought for it show.  If this happens, there is a simple way to correct it - place the strip straight but slightly above the bottom line and it won't be visible to the naked eye.
13. Mount the strip onto the card.
14. Cover the snowman with as light of a coat of the Crystal Stickles as you can manage. The crystal color looks like a white when it is reflecting well but up close you can see it has a lot of a rose colored fine glitter mixed in with it so works perfectly for the colors on the card.
15. Lightly run the Crystal Stickles along the white edging on the top and bottom of the strip. The glitter makes the card really stand out in person, but doesn't seem to scan all that well and survive the jpg image conversion process.
16. Let the card dry overnight.