Create a Christmas card with Santa in mind. Use St. Nicolas’s image,
presents, anything that has a little Santa flair! Here is my card for the challenge. I started with a 5"x 7" finished card size.
I used Early Espresso for the base and I used Bo Bunny's Noel Tradition
for the second layer. Then I used Noel Ornaments by Bo Bunny using the top portion of the paper (because it had branches and ornaments hanging already) for the third layer to
give my card a base to work with. I borrowed Kittie Caracciolo's idea http://kittiekraft.typepad.com/kittiekraft/page/3/ as a theme for this card. Don't you just love her work!! I think she really amazing if I only had her talent! I then used Tim Holtz's Tattered
Pinecone die to cut out a pine branch that I use for my base. I then punched out little pine branches using McGill's Pine punch using various colors of paper. Using mini glue dots I layered the pine branches over top of each other and on the bigger pine branches. I made an ornament using Spellbinders 'Postage Die' using gold glitter paper. For the inside of the ornament, I ran a piece of shimmery white paper by Stampin'Up and ran it thru the embossing folder 'Square Lattice' also by Stampin'Up. I attached this to the gold postage cutout. I stamped Santa using black Memento ink from the set called 'Holiday Sparkle' by Flourishes and coloring him with my Copic markers. I used the following markers R24, R27, R29, R59, C00,C02,C04,C07, E11, E31, E50, G21, G28 and G99. I add sparkle to the fur, beard using a Quickie Glue pen to add glue and then used Warm Highlight Glitter Ritz by In The Making Enterprises. I cut Santa out with scissors and mounted him on the Ornament after I laid some Tim Holtz's pine branches down to add depth. Then I added more pine branches by using the McGill's punch and carefully laying it over the bottom of Santa. I weaved in some Calypso Coral Organdy ribbon around the bottom of the ornament. I stamped sentiment from the set called 'Sentimental Christmas' by Flourishes using black crafter's ink and using gold EP by Clearsnap. Punched sentiment out using 1 3/4" circle and mounted it on a Amira Flourish by Memory Box Dies using gold glitter paper. I added yellow rhinestones where shown. I punch out red berries using 1/4" hole punch and red paper. Then I added red stickles to them to add some bling!
UPDATE: I won a Stamp Set for this challenge. Thanks Flourishes for the free set!!!
Now this is one Santa nested in some tree limbs. Very pretty and creative job. Thanks for playing in our Christmas Spirit Challenge.
ReplyDeleteOh my! Truly a fabulous card! Love how you layered all the pine branches around Santa! Very pretty sentiment, too!
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