Believe in the Magic Christmas Card

Hello!

The other day, I was in a mood.  This past month has felt like I was dealing with deadlines, appointments, errands, and organizing for way too long.   I just wanted to hole up in my craft room, and not check off to-do lists, or "people" that day.  So, being the crazy person that I am, I turned on a Christmas playlist, and stamped out a Santa Claus to spend a few hours coloring, and tuning out the world.  

The Santa on today's card, comes from the Picket Fence Studios Believe in the Magic Stamp Set.  I stamped the image onto white card stock, using Gina K Amalgam Ink in Barely There.  Then, I colored in the image using Polychromos Pencils, and a white gel pen for highlights.  Once the coloring was done, I fussy cut the image, and set it aside - far aside.  I was not risking another craft fail with this year's coloring of Santa.  

While I still had the Believe in the Magic Stamp Set out, I stamped the sentiment onto vellum, using Versamark Ink, and heat embossed it in gold.  The sentiment was also fussy cut.  

On another piece of white card stock, I taped the circle from the 2-1/2" Blending Stencil.  I then used my Life Changing Blender Brushes, to blend Stormy Sky, Chipped Sapphire, and Black Soot Distress Oxide Inks onto the panel.  Once I had the blend how I wanted, I blended a little Antique Linen Ink right around the edge of the circle, before pulling up the stencil, and blending the Antique Linen to the masked off portion of card stock.  I again covered the "moon" with the stencil, and sprinkled water droplets, and some watered down Sparkle Paper Glitz. 

While that panel dried, I die cut the Slim Line Our Town Cover Plate die from black cardstock, and then cut a second strip of the house from gray cardstock.  I added the die cuts on top of the ink blended panel, and trimmed the excess off.  The panel was matted with black cardstock.  I filled in the windows of the little houses with Dandelion Yellow Nuvo Crystal Drops, and then topped that with Nuvo Aqua Shimmer Pen in Midas Touch.  

Before assembling the card, I dry embossed the front panel of the card base, with the Arctic Winter Stencil. This can be done on most machines, with the correct plates.  For my Platinum 6, I use the base platform, the tan embossing mat, my card stock, the stencil, then the purple embossing plate.  

Finally the card was assembled.  And, I was much more willing to "people" again.  I guess that means back to the to-do list.  Have a fantastic day!  

Thanks for stopping by!