Hello Blogger Friends. Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit with The Charmed Life Blog today. Hope you all had a great weekend and found some time to get crafty.
It's Thanksgiving week here in the US. I have to get to the store and finish up my shopping for the big feast I will have on Thursday. I do all my meal preps on Wednesday, so I am a bit ahead on Thursday morning.
People in my neighborhood have already started decorating for Christmas but not me. I have my house decorated for Thanksgiving and I will take those down on Friday and start Christmas then. I have started a small amount of Christmas shopping though. Just some things I ordered online.
I need to get gift ideas from everyone and then I will get to it. I used to do the Black Friday thing, but my grandsons have grown and we aren't looking for deals on big ticket items like in years past. Plus, the stores already have deals going on.
Now onto my card for today. This one is using the new Father Christmas die from CottageCutz.
I started by selecting the designer papers I wanted to use for my layout. I have an older Christmas pack from BoBunny that had the name of Father Christmas. It contains vintage designs. I picked 2 different patterns and cut them as the background for my image.
Light Green Card Base: 4 1/2" x 5 1/2"
Light Green Image Panel: 3 1/8" x 4 1/8" (I used the largest rectangle die)
Dark Green Layering Panel: 3 1/2:" x 4 1/2"
Next, I cut the Father Christmas image. I used the colors from the packaging as they coordinated well with my designer paper. I wanted a more vintage look to my card so I cut the bow from the Vintage Holiday Lantern die and also used the Corner Flourish die (2016 release) for another corner accent.
Stamped my sentiment and started attaching some of the images.
1. We Love Stamping has a Christmas Characters challenge.
2. Allsorts challenge #755 is Christmas time.
3. The Crafty Addicts has an anything goes challenge.
4. Christmas Craft Creations has an add a hat challenge.
He looks like a very special father Christmas. Thanks for sharing your process for making this and for recognising our new rules and joining us at we love stamping this month. It is great that you followed the theme too. Thank you xx
ReplyDeleteWow a fabulous die cut Santa, I love all the layers in this design. Thanks for sharing at Allsorts this week.
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He's such a lovely traditional looking Santa, makes for a super seasonal card, thank you so much for sharing and joining us at Allsorts and We Love Stamping challenges.
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B x
Lovely card! Thanks for sharing at Christmas Craft Creations!
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A lovely tradtional creation. Thank you so much for sharing your lovely creation with us at We Love Stamping.
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Cathy
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What a great Santa and card. Thank you so much for joining us in our challenge at We Love Stamping. Good Luck and I hope you will join us in our next challenge.
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Love this card the details of the die you used is great, remember to add the CCC Logo for a chance to win, have a great day, and so happy you played our challenge at Christmas Craft Creations. Have a great day!
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