Cathrine said she really hated her mailbox and asked for a new one for her birthday. Well, as sometimes happens unless pictures and actual product skews are involved we don’t always get what we hoped for.

She got this mailbox, one that was “copperesque” (as in a coppery front insert). Well, as a creative person I know, sometimes we just can’t leave things alone, so she decided to change it.

This is what she came up with:

Isn’t this the cutest darn thing!! She wrote “Wouldn’t it be fun to change the scene throughout the year?”, I think so!

She says the scene is mounted on mat board and the whole thing is coated with UV protectant sealer.  Her porch is very protected – so hopefully it will hold up.

She wonders if the mailman will notice….
I say she should wonder if she’ll get any mail. If I were the postman at her house I’d be so busy looking at the mailbox I’d forget to deliver it!

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Another lovely wintery card from Amanda. This time everyone’s tasting snowflakes!

I love the way she’s colored in the characters – all the detail and shading. I also love the subtle shading in the background – some nice big fluffy snow-filled clouds. I think she used her favorite powder again (Twinkling Clouds). She’s finished it all off with the perfect little embellishments.

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The first card from one of the new design team members, Amanda Reed. (More will follow once I finish with all their orders. :) )

I love the hot pink and turquoise blue color combination – from her coloring to the cardstock she chose. And the embellishments bring everything together – the fresh fallen snow made using her favorite snow stuff (Twinkling Clouds from Sparkle N Sprinkle) and the sparkly chipboard snowflakes. Just wonderful.

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Isn’t this the cutest! Danielle sent this in and I thought, hmmm, with the weather around the country being what it has been there are probably quite a few snow tasters out there!

I love her little bits of sparkly snow!

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4027-G Waldo bear tasting snow
5069-C Nutmeg squirrel
5070-B Tiny Tweet (wearing ear muffs)
8191-E Official Snow Taster

I worked on this for quite some time and FINALLY finished. I was inspired by a project that Cathrine over at Paper Garden Projects created last year (I believe).

I started with chipboard shapes and covered each with a different piece of paper. I added snow with some white molding paste and before it dried sprinkled it with glitter. For the ice on the skating pages I used Diamond glaze. I made all the backgrounds first and then added the little kids and such on top. It was a labor of love for sure.








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Lots!

Georgia made another adorable little gift bag!
And just look at this polka package with a little stocking tag – too cute!

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Top bag: 6021-S Winter neighborhood (part of this stamp)
Bottom package: 9031-D Stocking with stripes

I think Annie and I had the same idea!
Using a little clear top tin she made this Paw Humbug ornament. She cut everything out, put it inside and before she closed it with a ribbon, added a little bit of snow. :)

In this one, I used Little Cora. I cut out some “hills” and covered them with snow. I put a stick-on snowball in her hand and a few tiny ones in the background.

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Top ornament: 8185-G Paw Humbug (kitty with text)
Bottom ornament: 1117-F Look out! Cora’s ready to throw

Annie created this lovely snowy scene with a couple of skating bears. It feels vintage to me, like an updated Victorian Christmas card – I think because it’s an oval framed with black and the  little pieces of holly.

She said that she colored everything with Copic markers, added glitter glue on the pond and drew the tree. I also asked and she said that the cut out behind the ovals was actually die cut using a Stampin Up Sizzix die.

Oh, and here’s a peek at the inside of the card…

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4026-J Bears can skate too!
8138-E Merry everything (text)

A beautiful card from Georgia. I just love the starry sky and snow capped mountains. She actually created this card earlier this year, for a Simply Scrapping Crafts Paper Scraps Challenge. But it’s so wintery I’m posting it now.

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7068-P Lake shoreline

Linda’s been busy! Here’s another card she sent in. I love the distressed, vintage look. And after reading her papery-quilt technique – I certainly want to try this on something!

This is what she wrote:

When I saw Holly’s quilt pattern that matches this stamp, I knew what I wanted to do – make a card like a pieced quilt. So, the only ink in this card is Memento Rich Cocoa – everything else is put together with patterned paper. Yep, I stamped the image no less than ten times on different sheets of patterned and embossed paper. I stamped the dog alone five times on five different shades of gold and brown. BasicGrey paper worked great because there are so many color shades within the same sheet of paper.

Start by stamping the whole image on just a white or beige piece of paper to serve as your guide. You can cut out the pieces you need and assemble the scene onto the white paper from the back of the scene working forward. The little dog is popped up with dimensional adhesive. Then, to keep that homey quilt feel going, you can use scrap gingham fabric for a bow and add lots of crazy sewing. If you’re brave enough to try this, here’s a tip – use liquid adhesive so you can adjust the little pieces easier, and have a good set of tweezers handy.

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8155-O Finding the right tree (scene)