"Reclaimed Wood" Skinny Snowman - Stamping Together At Monika's Place

He’s here. The third card for my “Reclaimed Wood” collection. I have more ideas to work on but this is the third one – a Snowman. The other two – the scarecrow and Frankenstein I’ve already shared. This one I actually created two versions – one I used for my Christmas Card Stamp-a-stack that I had last week and the other was a slightly stepped up version that I did for a swap group. So let me introduce the Skinny Snowman –

Isn’t he fun! And you might never guess where the eyes and nose come from or the trick for the mouth so I’ll tell you! I used the Square Pillow Box Thinlits Dies – the little decorative pieces for the details on this snowman. There is a little strip with tiny pumpkins – snip off the stem and ta-da you have some tiny oval eyes! Then the little strip with the trees – snip off the trunk and then you get the little pointy nose! I also used the snowflake element to decorate the hat. To create his smiley mouth I used my Project Life Journaling pen and traced one of my button containers – it was just the right size and shape to give him a big smile.

This is a skinny card – the base is 3″ wide – Basic Black and then I cut Whisper White strips which are stamped in VersaMark ink with the Hardwood Stamp – it is really light and in real life looks like white-washed wood. The brim of the black hat is a 4-1/4″ wide strip – so once you add that the card fits perfectly in our medium sized envelopes.

Here is my stepped-up version.

Can you see the difference? It’s not easy to see on the photos but I added some embossing. I stamped snowflakes on the top of the hat and embossed with clear embossing powder. The brim of the hat is embossed with the Hardwood stamp. Here is a closer look:

it just dresses him up just a bit. But I left that off when I held my Stamp a Stack class because I wanted to simplify it for them – they had a lot of cards to make that day. You could simplify even more by leaving off the Jolly & Bright from the top of the hat.

Here is a list of all the supplies:

Print Recipe

Product List

Hardwood Wood-Mount Stamp Set [133032] $20.00	Hardwood Clear-Mount Stamp Set [133035] $15.00	Basic Black 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock [121045] $7.00	Whisper White 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock [100730] $8.50
Pumpkin Pie 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock [105117] $7.00	Versamark Pad [102283] $7.50	Square Pillow Box Thinlits Dies [139657] $33.00	Big Shot [113439] $110.00
Big Shot Magnetic Platform [130658] $40.00	Home For Christmas Enamel Dots [140536] $4.00	Project Life Journaling Pens [135304] $5.00	Holly Jolly Greetings Clear-Mount Bundle [140865] $31.25
Holly Jolly Greetings Wood-Mount Stamp Set [139879] $28.00	Window Word Punch [119857] $16.00	Real Red 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock [102482] $7.00	Precision Base Plate [139684] $25.00