Get Your Santa On for the Pals’ challenge

This week’s Pal’s Paper Arts challenge has a gorgeous combination of colours although I don’t think that I’d have put them together. I am very glad that the pals did though – the three warm colours are wonderful together.

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I decided to use some of the Stampin’ Up! Get Your Santa On set that has so far been unused – it’s too easy to keep using the same stamps. In fact, I overachieved and used two of them!

Stampin' Up! Get your santa on

I started by stamping the joy in cherry cobbler on a scrap of very vanilla and then started stamping the presents being careful not to do alternating colours since that is a little too predictable. Even though I’m a mathematician and I adore symmetry, it would appear that the eye isn’t so thrilled with it on cards – I have to fight myself on that sometimes! I cropped the top of the scrap so that the JOY garland appears to be fixed to the top of it and then cut out a piece of baked brown sugar 1/4″ bigger in both dimensions. The photograph gives the impression that the baked brown sugar piece is just slightly above middle, but it’s actually quite a lot above that (the photo shows the back of the card a little giving that impression I think). I liked the little presents so much that I repeated them inside the card too. The envelope was finished off by lining with the framelit envelope liners and using the backgrounds DSP in cherry cobbler.

9 thoughts on “Get Your Santa On for the Pals’ challenge

  1. Susan Itell

    Just adorable…love everything about it….clean, crisp, classic – WOW! (also the liner makes me smile) So glad that you played the PPA Challenge….

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