A Christmas card in March. No, I haven’t completely lost it, nor have I become unbelievably (to my friends and family) well prepared. I’m the person who tends to be just finishing the packing when it’s time to leave for the airport. The explanation is that I decided to enter this week’s Merry Monday Christmas challenge which was to create a red and green Christmas card.
This little chap actually normally has a banner above him, but I masked that and stamped him in memento black on whisper white. I then used the eraser on the end of a pencil to add the juggling balls in garden green – approximately where the banner used to be. Then I got out my cherry cobbler blendabilities and coloured him in. I debated whether to add a sentiment and keep the card horizontal but in the end, decided to go with a vertical card. So after cropping the image, I added a skinny mat in black and then glued it to a base of garden green.
Since I had already mounted my sentiment – and curved the “very merry” to mimic the juggling balls – I decided to stamp it on the inside of the card:
The sentiment is from the Endless Wishes stamp set and is stamped in garden green. The envelope is lined with the backgrounds DSP in garden green.
Here’s the banner for the challenge
See you tomorrow,
Liz
Very cute! Santa is such a talented guy, isn’t he?
I was saying to Martin afterwards that perhaps I should have had one of the juggling balls on the ground! Except then Santa would presumably not have been looking so happy.
Cute little Santa..and beautiful coloring! Very nice card!
So cute, I love your Santa. Thank you for joining us for Merry Monday.
Thanks Nina – it was a lot of fun to do. It’s the first time I’ve used a pencil eraser to apply ink!
Love this CAS card, Liz, and that delightful Santa juggling snowballs! Thanks for sharing this with us at Merry Monday!
Thanks Bonnie – it’s definitely fun to play with the Christmas sets at this time of year.
This is so cute! I love the juggling Santa! Thank you for joining us at Merry Monday!
Your fella is cute with juggling the ornaments! Cute idea! Thanks for playing Merry Monday this week!
Fun card Liz, thanks for playing at Merry Monday this week.