Xmas card: Santas all in a row

What:

Another card made using Create A Smile’s snow dance card kit. I just love this little Santa! And today he’s brought some friends along.

How:

I started by stamping the row of Santas using my MISTI — by keeping the stamp in the same place and moving the watercolour card sideways between impressions I could make sure the row was straight and even, something that I would find tricky to do using an acrylic block. I gave them a quick, light layer of colour with Zig Clean Colour Real Brush pens.

The main Santa was stamped on Copic-safe card and coloured. I used a gel pen to emphasise the eyes and mouth and then I promptly stuck my thumb in it and smeared the ink over Santa’s face. Once I’d stopped cursing myself, I figured out a way to rescue it. I hate completely remaking things so I stamped another Santa and just coloured his head. I fussy cut out the head and the original Santa and layered the clean face over the smudged one with some thin foam tape. I used the same foam tape to pop up the whole Santa on top of one of the grey Santas.

The sentiment was stamped and heat embossed in white on a piece of scrap black card and trimmed into a banner shape. I cut a couple of thin strips from the papers in the kit and layered them with the sentiment below the line of Santas. A few sequins finished off the panel, which I mounted on a black card base.

Challenges:

Day 30 of The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge

Supplies:

• stamps:
  Create a Smile – snow dance stamps
• inks:
  Memento – tuxedo black
  Ranger – archival – jet black
  Versamark
• colour:
  Zig Clean Color Real Brush – 071 flesh colour, 090 gray, 091 light gray, 302 haze blue
• Copic markers:
  skin: E000, YR000, E21
  beard: W00, W1, W2
  hat, coat and gloves: R35, R46, R59
  trim: C0, C2, C4
  boots: W5, W8
• embossing:
  Wow! – super fine – bright white
• embellishments:
  Pretty Pink Posh – snow dance sequin mix
• paper and card:
  Neenah – solar white – 216gsm
  Tim Holtz – Distress watercolour cardstock
  Papermill Direct – plain – black
  Create A Smile – snow dance kit papers
• miscellaneous:
  MISTI tool