Double Christmas Day

 Hi bloggers! It's Friday and that means another double day for you!  Today we have Father Christmas for the first card and a 3D tree for the second one.  My Santa card is fairly straight forward.  I used a piece of decorative paper from my stash with a tartan feel to it for a wide border strip on the left side.  I attached it to a larger piece of white card that I stamped one of my sentiments on to in the upper corner.  Next I stamped Santa in a Black Archival ink pad and coloured him with pencils.  To give his beard, moustache and hat a 3D look, I used some white liquid applique and heated it.  I fussy cur him and mounted him on a large label shape then matted it with the next size up in red.  I drew some faux stitching lines with a thin lined black pen.  I stamped the other sentiment (both are from the JustRite set called  Holiday Magic)and cut it into a forked tag and attached it below my label shape.  I used a white gel pen to add dots all the way around both of them to give them a whimsical look.  I cut some of the holly die from Heartfelt Creations and added some iced snow to the leaves.  I added flatback pearls that I had coloured red with a marker for berries.  I tucked it under a white messy bow tied from seam binding.  A small pearl embellishment finished off the centre of the bow.  I matted the entire piece with a thin red mat before finishing with a double white pierced mat.  Isn't he handsome? LOL  Finished dimensions are 7" x 81/2" in size.  Scroll down to see the second card.

On the other side of the spectrum, we have an elegant 3D Christmas tree card.  I started with a piece of milk coloured card and stamped my sentiment with a clear perfect medium pad in the bottom centre of it.  I embossed just the upper part with the Wild Poinsettia folder by Couture Creations.  I did this twice as I needed a wider background piece for my card.  I tied a bit of seam binding around the card at the bottom of the embossed area.  I tied a messy bow and added one of the antique gold buttons as an embellishment and attached it to the side.  Next I created a background for my focal element by stamping the pine branch from Heartfelt Creations using a clear perfect medium on soft gold card.  I heat embossed it with gold powder for a tone on tone look and cut it out with the large label die shape. I did a slightly larger mat out of milk card with the larger label die.   Out of milk card, I cut out four of the Tree banner die from HFC.  I carefully scored them all down the middle and folded them.  I glued them back to back to create my 3D Christmas tree and glued the two outside halves to my gold background piece.  I finished the card with a double mat out of milk card and used the Cosmic Shimmer pearl PVA glue to create dots all the way around the edge.  Finished dimensions are 7" x 8 1/2" in size.  I hope that will keep you going with Christmas ideas for awhile!  All for now, Sue x