Winter Birthday

Happy New Year!!  Welcome to the first What If? Wednesday challenge of 2017.  We have a new designer and loads of new challenges this year to get you inspired, so I hope you will hop on over to The House Blog for all the details.  This week's challenge is a Designer's Choice Challenge, Shirley is the Designer and her choice is Winter Cards (But Not Christmas).  I've a family member who's birthday always sneaks up on me, so I decided to create a winter birthday card.  I stamped the jar from Contain Yourself upside down and cut out the center to use it as a fun snow globe shaker card.  I've seen this technique around and filed it away for a future time, which turned out to be now.

 I don't have the jar with the lid, so I just colored the top "threads" with silver to mimic a lid.  With the bow tied on, I don't think anyone would even notice.  I filled my shaker with white glitter, added glitter pen to the tiny snowflakes around the snowman and used my wink of Stella pen to add glitter to the die cut snowflake, so this is nice and glittery in real life.

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Supplies:
Stamps: Repeat Impressions "Snowflake Solid, large", "Snowflake Solid, small", "Winter Frame", "Jar", and "Birthday"
Dies: PTI "Fancy Flakes", MFT "Blueprints 13" large fishtail banner

Challenges:
Incy Wincy--celebrate (birthday)
Simon Says Stamp, Monday--start a fresh (first time I've inked up the snowman stamp)
Card Mania #88--layer it
Cutie Pie Challenge--a day in the snow
Unicorn #17--January blues
Di's Digis--celebrations
Sketch Saturday #444--sketch

Cut It Up #112--out with the old, in with the new (the snowman stamp is new, the snowflake die I've had for several years)
CAS-ual Fridays #164--celebrations
Brown Sugar Challenge #231--anything goes
Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps #362--winter
Fussy & Fancy #179--angels/fairies or winter