I’ve really been enjoying the Stampin’ Up! Get your santa on stamp set. I appeared to have a bit of a series going with this stamp set so I decided to continue that with one of the stamps that I haven’t used yet.

I stamped the chimney stamp in my favourite memento black ink – you have to use this if you’re going to colour with the blendability markers. I coloured santa’s trousers in the dark and medium cherry cobbler blendabilities and used just the medium old olive for the greenery. I picked the medium daffodil delight for the candles’ flames and used the light cherry cobbler for the candlesticks.

I find it surprisingly relaxing colouring with the blendabilities, I have no idea why. I was at a class recently where we were using the rich razzleberry blendabilities on two projects, so there was a lot of colouring. The class was far more quiet than usual, there is usually a fair bit of banter, but on that night we were all soothed by the act of colouring. Apparently it only works on children for a short time. Shame.

I mounted the whisper white card stock onto a piece of basic black cut just a quarter inch larger than the whisper white. This in turn was adhered to a cherry cobbler base. The envelope was lined with the backgrounds DSP in cherry cobbler.

I use a 3 inch by 6 piece of DSP to create the liner, rather than lining the envelope all the way to the bottom. This means that you can get 8 liners out of a sheet of the DSP. So when I need a liner, I cut the sheet into 8 and cut 8 liners; recently I’ve been cutting 2 at a time since I figured that the DSP is so much thinner than the card stock. I then score them using the stampin’ trimmer and stack my ready cut liners in families. I think that I need to get a little index card box to store them in to keep them neat.