Sunday 31 March 2013

Santa Claus is Comin' to Town

Oh I am very pleased with the way this one turned out!I started with the challenge at Merry Monday #55, which is a bingo challenge:
I was going to go across the bottom, but then, over at Feline Playful I spotted another Christmas challenge blog and they had this super sketch, definitely NOT one layer! The challenge is called Christmas Challenges and this was the sketch, created by Janneke,Wow! What a sketch- I had to use it, and so my bingo goes through the middle: Santa, paper piercing and DP. You can't see the piercing too well on the photo, but it borders the horizontal panel. The stamps are from a store in the Netherlands, bought for me by my husband on one of his trips home to visit his parents.  First time out for Santa, but as I am about to make another card using the same set I guess you'll be seeing him again soon!
I couldn't find 2 lots of matching DPs that went with the colour combo (there are so many reds!!) so I made my own with a snowflake stamp and silver embossing powder. There is a silver glitter frame around my stamped image, and I used silver mirri card for the main panel behind the papers.
I am also going to enter my card in Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge, where the theme is Christmas songs and I can just squeeze into Crafty Hazelnuts Extra Christmas Challenge for March.

11 comments:

  1. Fantastic card - love the snowflake stamped paper - everything goes so well together - thanks for entering both of my CHNC challenges - hope to see you again soon. X

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  2. Thanks for also linking for my CHNC challenge extra for March - hope to see more of your lovely Christmas cards soon x

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  3. Great card, love papers you used and your santa is wonderful. Thank you for joining us for Merry Monday this week.

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  4. just fabulous love all the layers, I can see how you are so pleased with this x

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  5. Pretty silver snowflakes and a sweet Santa image! Thanks for sharing with us at Merry Monday!

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  6. Gorgeous use of shimmery papers make this one pretty Christmas card! Thanks for joining us at Merry Monday this week!

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  7. You should be pleased with how this turned out Louise as its marvelous! I love that Santa and the papers you chose to layer on your card. LOVE your handmade snowflake DSP. Great job. Hugs D

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  8. Great card you've made for our challenge at CCWS. Thank you for joining in this week. Hugs Lotte

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  9. Beautiful card! Thanks for joining us at CCWS. But please remove our sketch from your blog, it is one of the rules :o) Thanks!!

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  10. Beautiful card! Can you remove the sketch. It´s one of the rules of CCWS.
    Thanks for joining us at CCWS.
    Hugs Nicolet

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  11. Sorry everyone at CCWS, I have removed the sketch-I obviously didn't read the rules well enough!
    Louise xx

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Louise xx