Pin-weave Snowman

Hi Everyone!

I'm afraid I'm not as good as I'd like to be at keeping up with this blog.  However, I keep thinking that I'm going to do better, and maybe I will.  In the meantime, I was really busy with card making for the holidays and below is an example.

First, I ran a piece of glitter paper (from DCWV's Christmas Winter papers) through my Cuttlebug's Swiss Dots folder.  Then I traced a snowman in the center of the back of the paper and used my craft knife to cut it out.  From scraps, I put the cut-out aside to use in a second card.  Then I chose 3 different ribbons from my scraps.  I laid a piece of scrap card stock down and using common pins, pinned one end of several strips of ribbon directly beside each other.  Then I took one ribbon and wove it thru the pinned ribbons, going under one ribbon and over the next.  Once it was woven across all pinned ribbons, I pinned it in place.  I continued in this manner until there was enough weaving to fill-in the cut snowman when laid on top of the weaving.  When the weaving was completed, I secured it to the bottom card stock with scotch tape, one ribbon at a time. I also made sure the ribbon ends midway to the margin of the top layer. I put lots of AVG gun tape on the glitter paper and laid it over the pin-weaving with all four edges able to be glued directly to the bottom layer..  There are now three layers:  scrap card stock, weaving, top glitter card stock.  On the computer I typed the sentiment and finally, I added the pointsetta button, cutting the shank off before I attached with a glue-dot.

Hope you enjoy this one!