A Santa for Peace on Earth

For this challenge, Peace on Earth has a great mood board with Santa images.  I used an old Santa stamp that I've had for ages.

I coloured the Santa with watercolour paints, added a vertical sentiment, trimmed with a pierced rectangle die and mounted on a red card base to allow colour to show through the pierced dots.

Please check out the inspiration from the rest of the Design Team and join us at Peace on Earth with a card.  We'd love to see you be inspired by our mood board, but if not, you can enter an "anything Christms" card.  

Supplies:
Stamps - SU Santa, Impression Obsession sentiment
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne
Paper - cold press watercolour paper, red cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, Sizzix dotted rectangle die

A Vintage Santa

I was thrilled to be asked to be the Guest Designer for one of the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown challenges - a theme challenge "Santa".

I stamped the vintage-style Santa from an old SU set and used my Distress markers to colour everything except the stars which I coloured with a Marvy Liquid Gold Paint marker. I got a blob of the gold paint on the top right of the image so decided to make a slimline card (which suits the size of the image anyway) and gave me room for a sentiment to cover up my blob of gold paint - I'm always happy when I find a solution to save something from a mistake!!!  I bordered the image with gold shimmer cs, layered it on a star embossing folder background, and used the same gold shimmer cs for the card base.

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's cards featuring Santa at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown.

I'm also adding it to the Jingle Belles "The Spirit of Christmas Past" challenge.  I always think of a Santa dressed like this one as being a Santa from the olden days.

Supplies:
Stamps - SU Star Santa, Great Impressions sentiment
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper - PTI white cs, gold cs
Size - 6.25x3.5"
Accessories - Distress markers, Marvy Liquid Gold Paint marker, Nesties label, dimensionals, Crafts Too star embossing folder, gold ribbon