The Heartbreak of Glitter Herpes...

This is a new set from the SU! Holiday mini -- Still Scenes.  The set also comes bundled with the matching set of die cuts, called Snowglobe Scenes.  I paired the bundle with Stampin' Up! Snowfall puff paint and the iridescent Snowflake sequins, for the shaker material.  This was my first (finished) attempt at a shaker card.  Trust me, the road was long and glitter covered.

The puff paint is really the star of this card.  You squeeze it on your image, then heat it with your heat tool to activate.  I just kept adding to it to get the "depth" of snow that I wanted.  

Also, after several false starts, I figured out that if I wanted a Coastal Cabana background, I needed to stamp onto Coastal Cabana and once onto Whisper White.  Trying to watercolor the Coastal Cabana onto white card stock isn't going to work very well!  So, I used a Soft Suede marker to color the leafless trees behind the house.  That's all.  Then I went to the same image that I'd stamped on white and watercolored the house, evergreen, bush and front yard, adding accents with a white gel pen, then fussy cutting the whole image out.  The the cut out watercolored image got carefully glued on top of the image on the Coastal Cabana.  I added the puff paint, heated it, and voila!  Cute snowy house with the Coastal Cabana background.

Now for the tricky part -- the dome and the glitter.  Stampin' Up was great in that the Snow Globe Scenes die cuts give you one that exactly cuts out the snow globe shape, as well as the perfect shaker dome.  After heartbreak and a severe case of glitter herpes, I discovered that you do not attach the dome in any way, then try to feed in the shaker materials.  The dome goes on crooked and there was too much shaker material -- looked liked the plows had come through after a huge blizzard.  I had to start completely over.  The second time around, I piled what looked like a small amount of shaker stuff in the middle of the image, then carefully attached the dome. Worked like a charm!

By the way, a word to the wise.  The domes have sticky strip on both sides of the dome, so I attached the bottom edge of the dome to the Coastal Cabana (with said shaker material safely sealed away!), then used the dome-shaped die cut in the Let It Snow dsp.  I pulled the paper backing off the sticky strip around the top of the dome, settled the dsp into place and affixed it to the whole finished dome.

All product is Stampin' Up!, unless otherwise note 

Stamps:  Still Scenes, Toile Christmas 

Paper:  Whisper White, Coastal Cabana, Tranquil Tide, Real Red, Let It Snow dsp, silver glimmer pape 

Ink:  Black Memento, Tranquil Tide, Real Read, Cherry Cobbler, Daffodil Delight, Soft Suede, Garden Green 

Accessories:  Big Shot, Snow Globe Scenes dies, 1" Real Red ruched ribbon, Dimenionals, Aquapainter, Snowflake Sequins, Ice Stampin' glitter, metallic brads, Snow Globe Shaker Domes