25 cards of Christmas - Day 14 - Let it snow snowman

I don't think the pictures of these cards do them justice, as they make them look very washed out and monochrome. In reality the red and white of the scarves and the holly stand out quite brightly against the black and white.

So to make these I used a snowman stamp I was given by a friend who was clearing out her craft room. I stamped in white Versamark chalk ink on black paper and then coloured the pictures. On one snowman I used hatch lines in white gel pen to colour the snow, in the other I used white pencil crayon. I used pencils to colour both snowmen's scarves and holly.

Next I die cut the snowmen out in ovals and mounted them on larger ovals. For the larger (portrait) one I trimmed off the bottom where the snow would be so the white underneath would show. I added dashed lines in a black gel pen around the white border, then wrote the messages in white gel pen on black card, cut them out and stuck everything to the base.