Sparkly Snowman for Jingle Belles

Hello friends.

I hope you are having a good weekend.
If it's as hot where you are as it is here, I hope this will cool you off.

This snowman was done using the Encrusted Jewels technique.

I used heavy cardstock which I die cut with this fun snowman die.

 My pancake griddle came out of storage and I used it to melt some clear embossing

powder on the die cut.  BTW, I used an oven mat to cover the top of the grill to keep 

the griddle clean and a piece of parchment under the die cut to make

it easy to move when everything was melted.

When the embossing powder was nice and melted into a puddle, I dropped

some Shaved Ice into it.  When the Shaved Ice was melted into the clear puddle,

I carefully removed the parchment paper and picked the die cut

off the paper with a paint spatula.

In real life it looks icy and I'm not seeing the pink that the photo shows.

As I move the card, the iridescence picks up all kinds of colors. 

I've die cut an aperture and put added a background piece that's

been sponged with Distress Ink and splattered with water.

I found some iridescent ribbon in my stash to tie around the top of the card.

I'm entering this at Jingle Belles where they're playing Tic Tac Toe

I'm not sure if the shaved ice is considered glitter or not.

If not it is definitely blingy!  So I'm using the row across the top

or down the right side.  Hopefully this works for one way.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Festive Snippets (PB)

Ink:   Versafine Smokey Gray

Paper:   Neenah

Other:  Snowman Joy Die (PB), Stitched Arch Stax (MFT), Shaved Ice (Stampendous), Kars Snowflake EF (ret. Cuttlebug), Clear EP (WOW)