Guest Designing at Cardz 4 Guyz - Winter Fun Card

Ya know, usually North Dakotans are the ones being buried under feet of frigid snow before the rest of the country even considers the 4-letter word's existence. After seeing winter storm Bella (really? We're naming winter storms now... According to the Google that's been going on since 2011, who knew?)  dump oodles of snow on my neighbors to the south, I went outside and pretended to make celebratory snow angels in my not-so-white neck of the woods. We're not the first ones!

However, the lack of snow has made it decidedly more difficult to get into the Christmas spirit. Hence my lack of Christmas cards. Hence my impending panic.

Luckily, Cardz 4 Guyz came to my procrastinating rescue this week by forcing me to create a card with the theme "Fun in the Snow".

 

 
I started by coloring some texture paste with dark blue gelatos (I did a tutorial on this earlier in the week) I wanted to play with some Christmas goodies that have been stuck in their dungeon since this time last year, so I pulled out my Tim Holtz Holiday Knit stencil.

 

 
Oooooo! Sparkly - After I schhhhmeared the texture paste through the stencil, I naturally had to add some microfine glitter. #notsorry!
 
Then, since the background was already Holtzian, I decided to play with my NBUS Tim Holtz Syled Woodland stamp set. It's so folksy and I thought the deer would look soooooo cuuuuuute with this card.
 

 

As you can see, I sprinkled the background with a little bit of Chipped Sapphire Distress Spray Stains and then added some blue metallic floss behind the reindeer before rounding out the look with a sentiment.

 

 

 
He's so merry! Or unimpressed... I can't tell which. Let's go with mysterious - He's so mysterious!!
 
Anywho - that's my card for today, and I hope you'll consider going to play along in the Fun in the Snow challenge over at Cardz 4 Guyz this week!
 

 
My colors came from the Merry Monday challenge currently underway - Blue and White with Texture! I'm also going to enter it into the Mixed Media Monthly challenge - Texture!