Funny Santa

Hello all,

today I want to show you my second project for the December Challenge over at Country View Challenges!

Do you know this - you need a few of christmas cards, you can send by mail. So they can not be decorated too bulky and shouldn´t be too heavy weight, you don´t want to pay too much.

I made a fun card, you can easily send and which is good to make in series.

And this is what I did:

 First I cut out circles from specialty stamping paper.

 Then I cut out slightly bigger circles in colors fitting to the cards to mat the white circles.

 I chose the background papers.

 Now I stamped the funny Santa in the middle of the circles with Archival Ink.

 Now I colored the Santa. First the hat.....

 .....the nose.....

....shading to the beard.

 With the same colors of the hat I colored the sentiment stamp, cut it out and matted it.

 Now I cut out some Tim Holtz Greenery and then I put everything together.

Here are my cards:

I really love that fun stamp!

Now I hope you will share you christmas makes with us and join in with our challenge!

You have muuuuuuuch time left! =)

Now I want to thank you for your visit and wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Have a good time and we will hopfully meet again next year!

Celebrate the Season! - DT-Project for Country View Challenges

Hello dear Blogfriends, welcome to my blog today!

The countdown is running - only 24 days left to Christmas.

But it´s also the first of the month, what means: a new challenge over at Country View Challenges.

This time the lovely Debs is hosting the theme:  "Christmas Theme, Reds, Greens & (optional) Rust"

I made a very vintage card in red and green.

And this is what I did:

First I chose a nice patterned background paper and a fitting image. The background paper I distressed at the edges with a knife, colored the edges with green Archival ink and DO frayed burlap. Then I glued it down on top of a card.

 I fuzzy cut the image and distressed the edges again with DO frayed burlap.

I matted the image with green cardstock, added some cardboard at the back and glued it onto the card. 

Now I took some chipboard pieces and painted them with white Gesso, 

 colored them with Archival Ink Library Green

and heat embossed the pieces with two different green embossing powders. 

Then I put them around the image, added some liquid pearls in red and glued down some flowers. 

 Now I stamped a seasonal stamp and embossed it with the same green embossing powder as I used on the chipboard pieces.

 To make the sentiment fit better, I used again DO frayed burlap and drippled some water on top for even more interest.

I glued it down with foam squares, 

and lastly I added some white splatters with watered down Gesso.

Here are some close ups: 

Well, that´s it for today, I´ll be back at the 5th of December with my second inspiration, I hope to see you here again!

Now I hope you will find time to join in with our challenge this month, as usual you have the chance to win a 20 £ voucher for the shop!

Thank you for your visit and try to have a not too busy time!