Ho Ho Ho

  Christmas always has a way of sneaking up on my and I am often making cards on Christmas Eve so I am glad to working on Christmas cards and adding to my stash.

Apparently Santa's sleigh is in the shop and the reindeer are getting a day off while it gets fixed so Santa has hopped in his plane to spread some Christmas cheer! I am glad he has a back up plan just in case his sleigh isn't fixed on time!

                                                                                      

     I stamped my stamps on alcohol marker friendly paper and coloured them with Copic markers. Twinkle and Star Dust Stickles were added to Santa's suit and the flourishes on the plane and wings (hard to see on the photo). I set them aside to dry and once dry, I hand fussy cut the stamp. The sentiment was cut out with a fish tail banner die and I bent it a little to create a "wave" so it looks like it is blowing in wind. The background papers are both from older Bo Bunny pads and perfect for this scene.

 I added a row of die cut houses along the bottom of the "sky" and added some "snow" to the roofs with white ink. After adding some foam dots to the stamps I added them to my card. Some die cut snow flakes and glitter dots finish off my card.

Card Recipe 

Stamp: Flyin' High Santa - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment - Ho Ho Ho- High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Patterned Paper - Sleigh Ride, White Out collections - Bo Bunny

Tuxedo Black Memento ink, Hammermill 100lb digital cover stock, Twinkle and Star Dust Stickles, snowflake punch - Marvy, house die - Gina Marie Designs, fishtail banner die - YNS, Unicorn ink - Hero Arts, glitter dots, 3D foam squares

 Copic Markers:

Skin  - E00 E21 E11 

Suit - R14 R24 R27 R59

Plane - C1 C2 C4 C5 

Tree and Holly -G21 G82 G94

Cloud - W1

Star - Y11 Y15 Y17

Gift - B34 B37 B39

Thanks for stopping by! Have a super fantastic day!

Here Comes Santa Claus....

Welcome HH fans;

It is hard to believe that summer is half over and we wonder where has the time gone. This in turn means that school will start in another month and we are getting closer to Christmas.

For my last post for this month's inspiration of "Christmas in July", I have used Flyin' High Santa from High Hopes Stamps.  After stamping the image and colouring it with Copic Markers, I added some Nuvo Fresh Snowfall Glitter Accents to the trim on Santa's hat. 

Supplies used:

• Stamps:  Flyin' High Santa, Here Comes Santa Claus (High Hopes Stamps)
• Ink:  Tsukineko Memento Tuxedo Black
• Paper:  XPress It Blending Cardstock, DP - Twas' The Night Before Christmas (Echo Park)
• Copic Markers:  
• Santa:  E0000 - Floral White, E000 - Pale Fruit Pink, E01 - Pink Flamingo, R27 - Cadmium Red, R29- Lipstick Red, T8 - Toner Gray No. 8, T6 - Toner Gray No. 6, T4 - Toner Gray No. 4, C00 - Cool Gray No. 00, C0 - Cool Gray No. 0, C1 - Cool Gray No. 1
• Plane: Y08 - Acid yellow, Y06 - Yellow, T0 - Toner Gray No. 0, T2 - Toner Gray No. 2, BG0000 - Snow Green, BG02 - Frost Blue, R46 - Strong Red, R27 - Cadmium Red, G09 - Veronese Green, G07 - Nile Green
• Other:  G46 - Mistletoe, YG45 - Cobalt Green, Y19 - Napoli Yellow, Y17 - Golden Yellow, Y28 - Lionet Gold
• Atyou Spica Glitter Pens:  00 - Clear, 05 - Lemon
• Nuvo Glitter Accents - Fresh Snowfall 
• YNS Gumdrops:  Holly Jolly Sparkly

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Until next time, Happy Crafting and have a fantastic day.

 

Flyin' High Santa

Howdy - Michelle O here today - Don't know about you but isn't Christmas is coming up really fast! And Santa because it is he is changing his mode of transportation this year!

This is "Flyin' High Santa" One of my favorite Santa images! I colored with my Copics (colors below) and then found some papers in my scraps to use with him. I found a great pattern paper from I think DCWV has lots of glitter to it. I loved the tree pattern paper but it was just too many trees and too busy with my image, so I cut out a few trees and added them to my card. Then a sentiment "Santa Claus is Coming to town!" works great with this Santa. Sewed down all the layers.

Inside I did the same as the front -

The Copic colors used -

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Thanks so much 

MichelleO

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