Christmas in July!

This is one of Kim's new Santa digi designs now available at Cuddly Buddly I've used the sitting Santa and printed him out 3 times so I could do a little bit of cutting and layering up, hardly decoupage but easy to do with these new designs. A little hint, if your cutting out isn't perfect, as mine rarely is, take a black permanent marker and edge your cut outs that way any white bits disappear. I've coloured Santa with Copics, added sparkle to his fur trims and glazed the stars. The paper was a free download from the Cuddly Buddly blog last Christmas matted with textured green cardstock. I found a scrap of gold netting to use as a layer and tied a piece of green gross grain ribbon around the card before fixing my image with 3d foam pads on top. The embellishment is created from a mix of Marianne diecuts and little red gems to finish things off. I'm sorry I don't have a list of the Copic colours I used on this one .. .. the bit of paper has got lost on my desk/floor/bin - it's hard to see where one area ends and the next begins! I must have a tidy up today.

The Creative Craft challenges theme is to 3d it - I have 3d my image as well as the flower embellishments so I can enter with them. The Outlawz forum Copic/Promarker challenge is currently Christmas in July, and Paper Sundaes are also running with a Festive theme. The Cupcake theme is 'wish upon a star' so as I have a star atop the tree and Santa has one on his hat I hope that's enough to enter their challenge too.