Hello crafty friends. Well, the temperatures have dropped over the last couple of days here in the UK, but there’s no sign of snow yet. Even so, I wanted to share the last of my samples using the new Snow Globe toppers and the little snowman from the Christmas Family & Friends collection – well, why not?

As I did with the Triangle Trees topper card a few days ago, I started by hot foiling the snow globe in silver – I do love the translucent effect of the shimmer this gives.

I wanted to keep my snowman very white, so stamped him onto a scrap of super smooth white paper, fussy cut him and glued him into place. I then added snow on the ground and dotted flakes in the sky with a white Posca pen.

I did stamp the sentiment straight onto the base to start with, but it didn’t really stand out so I redid it on a piece of the super smooth paper and glued that into place. What I hadn’t allowed for was the optical illusion of s straight piece on the curved bas, so it looks as though it’s curving downwards! To finish, I ran a black Sharpie around the edges of the topper and attached it to a 5×5 card blank that I’d covered with a piece of Indian Summer companion paper.

And here’s a closer look at the fab shine from that lovely hot foiling!

As I said earlier, no sign of snow here (yet…!) – and I’m grateful for that! In fact it’s a beautifully sunny, crisp and chilly autumn day – one of my favourite times of the year.

Anyway, this little chap is off to make some friends in a couple of challenge galleries. He picks up the snowman theme in Peace on Earth‘s photo, together with the right hand diagonal of snowman, free (I added hot foiling) and Christmas sentiment from TicTacToe‘s grid.