Homemade Christmas Cards with Fingerprint Snowman Families

For the snowmen, I used a Blue Ink Pad. Of course snow is white, but that won't work on white paper and I like the look of the blue ink. If you have a deep desire to have white snowmen (and you're feeling brave :-), grab some white acrylic paint and colored paper and give it a go. Now that I'm thinking about this I'm going to give it a try and see how it turns out. When it dries I'll add a picture here. For the eyes, nose, buttons and arms, I used Ultra Fine Point Colored Markers - Sharpies are my favorite. I really like the orange nose on the snow people.

Here I used a brown ink pad. That's not a color I would normally have so I bought one and it worked great. Eyelashes show moms and daughters plainly :).

The expressions made using thin black lines will make all the difference with these caricatures! Use Ed Emberley's Book to learn how to make hundreds and hundreds of expressions. If you like thumbprint art you will want to have a copy of his book as a guide. It's a keeper.

Here I used a card I had on hand and added the snowmen to the inside for a personal touch. The great thing about this idea is that I already have envelopes to match etc.