Cozy Kittens

Hello, everyone! Before I share my card, I would like to welcome my newest follower - Christina H - so happy to have you here!  Today I am sharing a card I made for my parents to thank them for the gifts and cash I received at Christmas. I love how it turned out and can't wait to give it to them on my next visit!

It's a shaker card! I used the adorable Free Stamp of the Month from From the Heart Stamps called Cozy Kittens. I coloured them with Prismacolor pencils and fussy-cut.  The background was created with Distress Inks (Evergreen Bough, Mermaid Lagoon, Milled Lavender), splashed with water. The snowy hills are Poppystamps Stitched Landscapes.  I adhered a number of snowflake and star sequins to the background - the silver ones are showing up as black in the photo but they are silver. For the shaker bits, I used clear vase filler because I think they look like ice crystals.

The shaker window is cut with one of my new dies - Memory Box Woodland Oval.  I die-cut it twice. For the second one, I trimmed out the trees and embossed the oval with Darice Snowflake Background (a surprise gift - thank you, Lisa - it's exactly what I wanted!). I stamped a sentiment from Newton's Nook in teal and added some Memory Box Twilight Snowflakes (these are new too) cut from white glitter paper.  To finish off the card, I adhered three sequins.

Challenges:  613 Avenue Create AG 1/3; A Snowflake's Promise AG 1/3; Artistic Inspirations AG Thank You UE; As You Like It Favorite Paper or Non Paper (I prefer paper as that's the only type of crafting I know how to do) 3/3; Aud Sentiments AG 1/5; Beccy's Place January AG UE; Card Mania Winter Fun 1/3; Clique Kits AG 2/3; Come and Get It Embossing 2/3; CRAFT Christmas 1/5; Craft Your Passion Always AG 1/3; Crafting by Designs Winter, Glitter, Sparkles 1/3; Crafting from the Heart AG 1/3; Crafts Galore Encore AG 1/3; Crafty Calendar Something New (dies and embossing folder) 2/3; Crafty Friends AG 2/3; Crafty Gals Corner New to You (dies and embossing folder) 1/2; Crafty Girls Creations AG 1/3; Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Cute or AG UE; Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Extra January UE; Creatalicious Snowflakes UE; Creative Fingers AG 1/3; Creative Inspiration AG Option Sketch UE; Creative Ladybirds AG 2/3; Creative Moments Let it Snow 1/3; Crimbo Crackers AG UE; Crop Stop Linky #12 -Distress Ink found at Crop Stop here 3/5; Deep Ocean Something New (dies and embossing folder) UE; Die-Cut Divas New Something (dies and embossing folder) 2/4; Digi Designs Snow or Snowflakes (both) 1/3; Dies R Us Stitching (faux) 1/3; DL.ART January AG UE 1/day; DL.ART Thankful Thursday Alt. Thank You 1/3;  Doodle Pantry AIMPDC13 Any Digi Goes 1E; Double D Brrrr 1/3; Fresh Brewed Blog Favourite Season (winter) 1/5; From the Heart Stamps i {heart} sketches I used the twist: Add Some Nature; Get Creative Something New (dies and embossing folder) 2/3 (use #); Glitter n Sparkle Monochrome 3/3; HIMCR Embossing (dry) 3/3; Imagine That Creative Playground Colouring Contest 1/3; Inspiration Destination AG UE; Kitty Bee Winter Fun 1/2; Let's Craft and Create Layer It Up 2/3; Lil Patch of Crafty Friends AG 2/3; Little Claire's 3-2-1 (3 sequins, 2 kitties, 1 sentiment) 1/3; Love to Scrap AG 1/3; My Crafting Stories AG UE; Natalie and Amy Thank You 1/3; Not Just Cards AG UE; Open-Minded Crafting Fun Something New (new dies and embossing folder) 1/3; Our Crafty Corner AG 1/3; Outside the Box Shaker Cards UE; Paper Creator AG 1/3; Paperbabe AG UE; Pattie's Creations Fun in the Snow 2/2; Penny's Paper Crafty Cats and/or Children 1/3; Petal Lu AG 1/3; Pile It On First Initial K for Kittens UE; Pixie's Snippet Playground Snippets used for all die-cuts 3/3; Poppystamps Sparkly Snow UE; Robyn's Fetish Animals 1/3;Scrappy Moms Stamps Sparkle and Shine UE; Simon Says Stamp Monday Best Friends (the cats) 1/5; Simon Says Wednesday Create with Critters 1/5; Sparkles Monthly Monochomatic Blues 3/3; Stamping Smiles Designs Tic-Tac-Toe (see board below - I went with trees, die-cuts, critters) 1/3; SUYP Cats Only Challenge Furrything Goes UE; Sweet Stamps AG UE; The House That Stamps Built  Repeat Impressions WIW Photo Inspiration Challenge J2016 UE; The Outlawz Monday Greeting Embossing (dry) 1E; The Paper Girls Forest Friends 1/3; The Ribbon Girl January Any Image UE Word Art Wednesday AG w Uplifting Sentiment 1/5

Double D Inspiration Photo

Thank you for looking at my card!  Wishing you a joyful day!