Pat's Sled

Design By Chris Niemeier

Materials

• Card stock: dark green, white and metallic gold
• Rubber stamps: young girl in winter coat, small fir tree, bare trees, sled and snowflake
• Colored pencils
• Bluish-gray chalk
• Clear glitter glue
• Ink pads: gray, black, olive green and watermark
• Black fine-tip marker
• Glue stick

Score and fold a 6 x 11-inch piece of dark green card stock in half, forming a 6 x 5 1/2-inch card. Cut a 5 x 4-inch rectangle of white card stock; apply bluish-gray chalk to top portion of rectangle. Referring to photo, use gray ink to stamp bare trees along chalked area. Continue stamping trees several times as ink fades to create the appearance of trees in the distance.

Referring to photo for placement, use black ink to stamp the young girl and sled images onto the white rectangle. Use olive green ink to stamp a small fir tree on top of sled horizontally as if the young girl is pulling the tree with her sled.

Color stamped images; add snow prints and sled tracks with light blue pencil. Use black marker to draw lines from the girl's hand to the sled to form a handle. Apply clear glitter glue to girl's coat and hat trim; add tiny dots of clear glitter glue randomly across entire rectangle.

Layer image onto metallic gold card stock; trim a small border. Center and adhere to card.

Sources: Rubber stamps from Inkadinkado and Coronado Island Designs & Stamps; watermark ink pad from Tsukineko Inc.

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