Hi Krafters!
This is the most wonderful time of the year! Thanksgiving
was awesome and Christmas is right around the corner. Each year, I make at least one snow globe/shaker card for
Christmas. The reason why I only make one is because the process
is very time consuming. I had to cut up foam tape and layer it and ensure the
tape was not showing under the transparency…while the outcome was lovely, I
would be beat! Honestly, I was not looking forward to my annual undertaking.
A few months back,
Practical Scrappers had the Frugal
Finds: Jar Lids. I would save lids and other things without a real reason
other than, “I will use this for something later.” As I looked through the
wonderful projects that day, I saw Charity’s
shaker card! It clicked! I have been doing the snow globe card ALL WRONG!
So thank you PS for the Frugal Finds and thank you Charity for being the
inspiration for this card J
Check out Charity’s blog
for her instructions.
The first thing I did was use sandpaper for the jar lid and
painted it with Gesso. Once the Gesso dried, I painted the lid (outer rim and
inside) with two coats of gold paint.
As that dried, I used the Cricut Craft
Room to design the snow globe. I used the Joys of the Season Cricut cartridge for
the globe shape. I welded two of them together and cut three individual shapes;
two for stability and one for the sentiment.
I also designed the focal image from the Santa’s
Village Cricut cartridge in CCR. I used my largest Classic Circle Spellbinders
Die to cut the image out as well as a piece of transparency. I added the
decorative sand and a few snowflakes (cut from a border punch by Fiskars).
I
placed the transparency on top and used a little adhesive to hold the transparency
and sand in place. To adhere the “globe” I used hot glue. Embellish as you
wish!
I hope you enjoyed today’s project! Pop over by Practical Scrappers and show some love! Thanks for stopping by,
Krafthead~
Supplies:
Paper Trey Ink
Santa’s Village
Mr. Frosty
Joys of the Season
Jar Lid
Folk Art Metallic Gold Paint
I Am Roses-poinsettia
Ribbon
Martha Stewart Branch Punch
Sentiment Punch
Ranger Gold Embossing Powder
Versa Mark
Fiskars Snowflake Border Punch
Decorative Sand
