Define Naughty!

 Hello crafters!  I thought I would do a couple days of sneak peeks at the weekend show samples.  I bet you were wondering when you saw that title! LOL  This is one of my favourite cards I have to admit as I just loved the "Dear Santa, Define Naughty!"  Before I forget to tell you, there has been an additional hour added to the schedule on Saturday morning (no sleeping in for me!).  This is something new as I am doing the first ever Pick Of The Weekend!  (POTWE) .  It is all Christmas and if you haven't started making them yet, hopefully this will give you the push to get them started!  Today's card is a bit of a distressed Christmas card, but it definitely has a fun side to it as well.  I used kraft card as my background and stamped my sentiment in the lower corner with a Coffee Archival ink pad.  The sentiment is from the clear stamp set called Holiday Magic by Justrite Stamps.  I used the Holiday Magic embossibility  folder to add texture to the top of the card.  I used some Walnut Stain and lightly added some colour to the swirls.  I roughed the edges a bit with my scissors and rubbed them as well with the walnut stain.  I cut a strip of decorative paper from my stash and stamped it with the Beaded Element stamp (from Creative Expressions)  and gold embossed it.  I added this piece to the side of my card and began working on my Santa stamp (from the CExp singles line)  I cut a piece of patterned kraft card from my stash.  I stamped it with the same stamp, but did not emboss it.  I just wanted a soft watermark effect on the background.  I stamped my Santa and coloured him with coloured pencils and fussy cut him.  I stamped the holly on his hat again and cut it out, coloured it and added it to his hat for dimension.  I used some red glitter Stickles on the holly berries.  I added a piece of hessian that I removed about half of the strands from.  I glued it in place under my Santa.  While I was in Florida, I found these cute little pine cones and holly at one of the chain stores.  The holly was a bit too bright so I toned it down with some gold pigment ink.  I forgot to add that I did add a red mat to all my pieces and the final background card too.  Then I added a final double kraft card mat to complete the card.  Isn't he a cute Santa!  Finished dimensions are  7 1/2" x 8 1/2" in size.  All for now, Sue x