Tuesday 30 November 2010

Ho Ho Ho , shh Santa's coming and a half way reminder

I don't have too many Christmas cards left to make now and so far I've been lucky enough to be able to combine each challenge with quite a few challenges, which is always a bonus.

This card I decided to try something different,I was lucky enough to win some die cuts from Susie Sugar a while ago and so far hadn't used them so I thought I should rectify that. I thought the easy way out would be just putting it on a card but that's a bit too easy so as I've often seen Susie do on her blog I thought I'd use it like a plate card. I bought a plate holder in the summer with the plan of using it to hold my cards to take photos of them, though I do keep forgetting to do this , but I drew around it to make a holder for my card. I hope my sister in law will show my nephew how to stand the card up, didn't think about that, hey ho I'm sure she will.

I had this image of Santa by Sarah Kay sent to me in a swap a while ago and thought with the tree I won last year in a candy would be perfect together. I coloured the santa with Sakura glaze pens for shine and promarkers as the tree too. The paper was a freebie yet again. The stars are also a magazine freebie from last year( chipboard) and the sentiments were a candy win. I think that's about it, oops nearly forgot the stickles for fairy lights on the tree.

Quick reminder- over at creative craft challenges we have a tag it challenge running till next tuesday, so come on have a go.

I would like to enter this card for the following challenges:-

totally gorjuss-trees
Paper sundaes-adorn the corners
Sunday sketch and stamp-layout
The pink elephant-red,green and blue
Shabby tearoom-no square cards
There she goes-card for a young person
Pollycraft mondays-use chipboard
Simply Create Alford-festive card and sparkle
the little paper shop-funky or punched edge
Auds sentiments-use HO HO HO on your card

14 comments:

Anne Temple said...

Love all the glitter and your base looks fantastic. Great combination too.

Debbie said...

So CUTE!!! Great job with the coloring ... thanks for sharing with us in the Tea Room this week :)

Dragonlady said...

Hi Julye

Fabulous card and you could enter it at Aud Sentiments.

Hugs Ali x

Fiona said...

fab card...lovely and glittery. Thanks for joining us at Paper Sundaes this week.

fi

Joey said...

Lovely card Julye, love this santa and shape, thanks for joining us at pollycraft
Joey.xx

Courtney said...

I love this Julye!! I need to get brave enough to do shaped cards! lol I wanted to let you know that I left you something on my blog. You can find it here http://atouchofpink-courtney.blogspot.com/2010/11/wow-has-it-really-been-that-long.html

Courtney~

Sheena said...

Love the shape of this card and the santa image is perfect! Thanks for joining us at Pollycraft this week! Sheena xx

Emma said...

A gorgeous card, I love the shape.
Thanks for joining us at Pollycraft & good luck.
Hugs Emma x

Pattie said...

Great card! Thanks for joining us in the Tea Room for our Get Into Shape themed challenge this week!

Kath Stewart said...

love your shaped card julye and good luck in the Simply Create challenge....hugs kath xxx

Gloria Stengel said...

Very creative shape card! Thanks for playing along at Paper Sundaes.

Audrey said...

Adorable! I love the shape. Thanks for joining us at Aud Sentiments.

Claire said...

Great card, lovely shape and a good take on the sketch. Thanks for playing along this time with SS&S. Hugs, Claire x

Ruthie said...

This is rather fabby - love your colouring!

Thanks for joining in the fun at Aud Sentiments

Rx