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Saturday, November 30, 2013
In The Holiday Spirit!
It is that time again at Fashionable Stamping Challenges for a new challenge which will run through most of December! The challenge theme "In The Holiday Spirit" was chosen by me and I wanted to keep it simple especially during this time of year! This is an anything goes kind of challenge celebrating the holidays in your way, but of course you must use stamps! The design team has so much festive inspiration to share with you and as always there is a prize from Flonzcraft and a Top 3, so come on and get inky and join in!
I decided another play with my new Tim stamps was in order as I just love this Santa! Santa was stamped using Coffee Archival on the backside of some designer paper (Tim's from the Valentine sheet). It was very subtle with a slight tint of vintage green! I masked him off and then stamped the background trees and those were actually layered. The layers were shaded with Vintage Photo and Peeled Paint
The vintage music sheet was cut and distressed and slide under Santa's drum after cutting around the drum with my craft knife.
Love this vertical Merry Christmas and it worked so well for a separate layer on the brown background. The corrugated cardboard was white and I sprayed it to match the green colors which is hardly noticeable, but add some dimension!
Hope you are having a great start to the holiday season and thank you so much for stopping by!
Hope you are having a great start to the holiday season and thank you so much for stopping by!
Very festive Terry!! I love the vintage images and colours! A great xmas card!
ReplyDeleteA great card and I love this Santa too xx hugs trace x
ReplyDeleteLove the very vintage feel to this card. This father Christmas certainly is fabulous and such a fun and different sentiment! Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteKate
Love this great card, and the vertical greeting is really cool, love all your inking as usual! ~Diane
ReplyDeleteLove the Vintage Photo with the Peeled Paint - it gives the whole thing such a fabulous, earthy feel - lovely theme too, Terry!
ReplyDeleteAlison xx
Sweet Santa, and great colors too!
ReplyDeletesmashing vintage christmas card Terry, hugs Annette x
ReplyDeletelove love love this one Terry! makes me feel merry! happy rest of your weekend! xo
ReplyDeleteThis is such a fabulous vintage card Terry, the masked image of Santa looks great with the trees in the background and the sentiment fits perfectly. A great design my friend.
ReplyDeletehugs {brenda} x0x
What a fabulous card my friend. I am loving the vintage Santa image.
ReplyDeleteHappy December..
Hugs~
Stunning Terry, love your Christmas make! Love those vintage grungy colours and it suits the stamps you have used so well, a fab make!
ReplyDeleteWhat a gorgeous joho joho card...great Santa, lovely vintage
ReplyDeleteLove the blended colours here Terry and your subtle effects really go to make this so special. One of those you could sit and take in for quite a while and still see something new. Great job, great theme. Jenny x
ReplyDeleteGorgeous traditional card Terry, its a super Jolly Santa image.
ReplyDeleteYvonne x
Love the challenge theme TT. Your card looks amazing with those beautiful colour tones. Mr Santa certainly looks happy in his job.
ReplyDeleteWarm crafty hugs from Shirl x x
Gorgeous card, love the colours you have used, too. Valerie
ReplyDeleteFantastic festive card Terry! Love the jolly Santa and the vintage look - fabulous! xxxx
ReplyDeleteSo beautifully designed, dear Terry! I love the stamps and colors.
ReplyDeleteI wish you a wonderful first Advent :-)
What a beauty! Love the green with brown combo and the stamps are stunning! Hugs, Sandra
ReplyDeletebeautiful christmas card, love it!
ReplyDeleteGroetjes Karin
I love this Santa image and really like the ,asked trees and the music you added. The colors are just fab as well! It's beginning to feel alot like Christmas.....!
ReplyDeleteOh Terry this is such a beautiful xmas card! I loooove it!!!!
ReplyDeleteDot x
There is a lovely gentleness that exudes from this card - so beautiful.
ReplyDeleteWishes
Lynne
Love your Santa creation Terry, such great colours, too. So sorry for having been MIA for such a long time, my neck is much better now, but only a couple of days ago I lost my MIL, hence the silence on my part. Hope you're doing good though. Take care, Ira x
ReplyDeleteIra’s Crea Corner
Such a wonderful card with great texture. Love your color scheme.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous card Terry, that Santa is adorable, he really makes me smile Claire xx
ReplyDeleteLove the green tints! That Santa is a jolly wonderful view too!
ReplyDeleteHi Terry, just catching up. This has a real vintage feel to it - wonderful colours to use with those images.
ReplyDeleteHave a great wek.
Avril xx