Snowman Explosion Box - Gift Card Holder

This months Circle Magazine Challenge is to use the Circle exclusive cart Sophie for at least three cuts to create a holiday project.  I decided to make a Christmas gift card holder explosion box:

The large snowflake, the frame around "Merry Christmas" and the border on the front of the gift card pocket are all cuts from Sophie.  For the border, I welded several of the same snowflake cuts using Cricut CraftRoom and cut it out of scrap piece of sparkly silver vinyl.

The snowman in the centre is made with three pompom glued together. 

I used black half-beads for the eyes and a piece of a red rubber band for the mouth.  To make the "carrot" nose, I used  a piece of orange tissue paper with white glue rolled and shaped by hand.  The arms are toothpicks (with the point cut off), ends split into three and coloured brown.The top hat is back duct tape over black card stock cut freehand (to give it a more organic look) and glued together .

The stamped snowman image is the same one I used in a card I had posted in November. This time I embossed a cut portion of aluminium food tray which is sturdier than the aluminium foil I used with the card.







I intentionally made the outside of the box simple to contrast with the overkill of elements on the inside.

Supplies Used:
Cricut Expression & Cricut CraftRoom Application
Cricut Sophie Cartridge
Cricut Ashlyn's Alphabet Cartridge

Cuttlebug Embossing Folders from the Winter Wonderland embossing folders set

Inkadinkadoo Clear Stamp

Embossing Pad and Stampendous Embossing Powder

Ribbon from my stash
Studio G chalk ink and Copic Markers (to outline card stock)

Self-adhesive foam mounts

Self-adhesive rhinestones, confetti, plastic "mirror" snowflakes from the Dollar Store

Aluminium food tray

Solid and sparkle card stock are Recollections brand

Patterned card stock is Anna Griffin Georgette Christmas Collection

Martha Stewart Glitter

Orange Tissue Paper

White pompom - (three sizes), Cotton batting and Felt

Duct tape

Black half pearls

red rubber band

Toothpicks

Ribbon Flower from my stash

White pearls, black pearl, black pin and a thin piece of black plastic punch with a circle to make the snowman stick pin.

Thanks so much for looking.