Retro Santa Claus

 

Over at The 12 Months of Christmas Link Up it is the Merry Maidens turn to showcase some fabulous Christmas cards.

This paper pack Miscellaneous Christmas Red & Gold designed by Decosse's Dynamite Doodles is up for grabs to the lucky winner who follows the Optional Twist if you use the  colours of Red & Gold as the focus of your card. 

This paper pack is gorgeous so you really want to win this one.

The Sponsor for this challenge is Taylormadecards4U who is offering a $10 certificate for digital items from the store.

This card has been made 100% fully digital as my printer seems to have a hard time with printing lots of red without it looking streaky. I will sure be glad when worldwide shipping and distribution gets back to normal as anything technological seems to be out of stock. The colour inkjet printers that are available are either cheap and nasty or way too high spec and overpriced for our needs. Every good one hubby looks at is out of stock and no one has details of when due back in. Hopefully as the world starts getting back to some sort of normality availability will improve.

The image set I chose is Retro Santa Claus as I particularly wanted to use the December 25 and Santa checking his list image.

I started by cropping the images from the sheet. I used the Amber paper from Foil Textures Festive Colours for matting and layering throughout.

This paper was the perfect compliment from my favourite patterned paper from the Miscellaneous Christmas Red & Gold set. The holly is so sophisticated.

I used a sketch from Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 for the layout and stretched it to make suitable for a rectangular card.

I made a ribbon using the Crumpled Chrome 1 paper and used a snowflake brad from the Snow Much Fun pack. I use these brads and snowflakes often in digital layouts as they are so handy.

The sentiment is from Holiday Hoopla Word Art Collection. I layered this onto some of the holly paper and used a gausian blur effect so it gives you the mottled background. I am loving playing with these digital effects.

I do hope you will take part in our challenge and look forward to seeing your creations.

Digital Card Details -

Size - A5

Digital Images - Retro Santa Claus Pack from Taylormadecards 4U

Digital Sentiment - Holiday Hoopla Word Art Collection (Decosse's Dynamite Doodles)

Digital Paper - Miscellaneous Christmas Red & Gold, Foil Textures Festive Colours, Crumpled Chrome 1   (Decosse's Dynamite Doodles)

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order)

• A Bit More Time to Craft - #138 Anything Goes
• A Bit More Time to Craft Extra - Anything Goes
• A Perfect Time To Craft - #226 Anything Goes
• Aud Sentiments - #272 Anything Goes
• Christmas Crafts All Year Round - Something that starts G or H (Holly in background paper)
• Classic Design Challenge - #4 Anything Goes
• Crafty Creations - #420 Anything Goes
• Crafty Sentiments Designs - Anything Goes
• Digi Choosday - #15 Anything Goes
• Happy Little Stampers Christmas - Anything Goes
• Ike’s World Challenge - #143 Anything Goes / Springtime
• More Mixed Media Challenge - Anything Goes / Yellow (gold)
• Polkadoodles - #15 Anything Goes
• Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 - #205 Sketch for layout
• Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
• Word Art Wednesday - #487-488 Anything Goes