Merry and Bright Santa Card

We needed some more fairly-quick-but-festive cards, and my mother wanted to make a Santa card, so this one is a collaboration. I am also playing along with Simon Says Stamps' Wednesday Challenge: Let It Snow.

This card measures 5" x 6.5". Santa is from the Hey Santa digital stamp set (Angie Blom Digital Designs). I printed Santa on Copic XPress-It Blending Card, then did a quick coloring of him with Copics. After I finished coloring, I fussy cut him and put Ranger Glossy Accents on his glasses. I felt like he needed a body, so I cut a body shape (freehand) out of some plaid Christmas cardstock. I added his sparkly suspenders with black, glittery washi tape.

My mother created the other elements. She created the background with Distress Oxide inks (Salty Ocean, Stormy Sky, Black Soot) and then splattered it with white acrylic paint (using the Tim Holtz Splatter Brush).

She cut the pine branches from the Tim Holtz Festive Greenery die set (Sizzix) and also splattered them with white paint. She cut the sentiment (from the Poinsettia Fold-a-Long die set by Sizzix) out of gold, mirrored cardstock.

The gold sentiment wasn't showing up well on the background, so we cut a small circle (Distress Edge Circle Dies by Kat Scrappiness) to put behind it. We put foam dots behind Santa when we mounted him on the card.

List of all stamps/dies/stencils used on this card:

• Hey Santa digital stamp set (Angie Blom Digital Designs)
• Poinsettia Fold-a-Long die set (Sizzix)
  
• Tim Holtz Festive Greenery Dies (Sizzix) 
• Distress Edge Circle dies (Kat Scrappiness)
  

Other supplies:

• Copic XPress-It Blending Card
• Copics (various)
• Die-cutting machine (we used the Vagabond)
  
• Distress Oxide inks (or whatever blue and green inks you want to use)
  
• White acrylic paint
• Tim Holtz Splatter Brush
  
• Black, glittery washi tape (Recollections)
• Ranger Glossy Accents
  
• Double-sided tape (Scor-tape)
• Foam dots
  

Merry Christmas!