Santa, is that you?!!!

Today I am showing you all a card featuring Santa????  Maybe it is him, the hat seems to be the same one Santa wears at Christmas, but why is he dressed like a lumberjack!  Inquiring minds want to know - is it really the jolly old man or an imposter.  What do you think?

This adorable image is Woodland Santa (R098) from High Hopes rubber stamps and can be purchased here.  I have stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on to Copic Xpress It cardstock, and then colored the image with Copic markers and Prismacolor pencils.  Some polar white flower soft and Nuvo Crystal Drops in Ebony Black give some added dimension to the card.  The image was fussy cut and then adhered to the card front that I created with My Favorite Things Mini Cloud Edges stencil and Mermaid Lagoon distress ink.

Card Recipe 

Copics - T1, T4, T7, E01, E13, E13, R20, R24, R29, R39, E40, E42, E43, E44, B91, B93, B95, B97, Y21, Y23, Y26, YG61, YG63, YG67

Prismacolor pencils - Dark Purple, Sandbar Brown, Grass Green, White, Black, Dark Brown, Burnt Ochre

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I Wuff You

Ha!  I love this sweet little sentiment that comes with the puppy in the Woof Set from Art Impressions.  This is one of the Ai Zoo Babies - and Lora has all four Zoo Babies in the OCS store, so you'll want to check them out!  I decided to do something different with today's cards, as I'm usually a bit of a patterned paper junkie.  I love all the watercoloured backgrounds that I'm seeing on people's blogs, so I cut some small rectangles of watercolour paper, grabbed some of my mini Distress Inks and got to work.  Here's what I came up with:

 The first card uses Mustard Seed and Picked Raspberry Distress Inks.  I tapped each ink onto a clear acrylic block which I used as my watercolour palette.  Then I dipped my paintbrush into clean water and wet the cardstock.  With a slightly damp brush, I picked up the Raspberry (pink) ink and dabbed it three or four times onto the wet area of the paper.  The ink immediately started to spread wherever the paper was wet.  After cleaning the brush, I then picked up the Mustard (yellow) ink and did the same thing.  You can see the areas where the two colours met and blended - forming an orange shade.  I love the randomness of the pattern!  The ink will only go where the paper is wet, which allows you to have some control.

The second card uses Peacock Feathers and Mustard Seed again.  I love watching the colours blend!  And if you don't find the colours to be deep enough, you simply drop more ink onto the paper until you achieve a colour that you're happy with.  You'll get the best results if you remember how we all learned about the colour wheel in school... red + yellow = orange, blue + yellow = green etc.  But I encourage you to get out your Distress Inks or a set of watercolours, and play! 

 I coloured the puppies with Copic markers, picking up the colours of the background for their ribbons.  Then I fussy cut them out, and popped them up on pop dots.  Here's what you can find in the OCS store:

Art Impressions Woof Set (Sku#4532)

Fabriano Watercolor Paper

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Mini Kit #1

Copics used: E57, E55, E53, E51, E50, YR18, YR16, YR12, BG15, BG13, BG11

Have a Great Day!!!

Hi Fellow Crafters;

I hope you all had a good Family Day and enjoyed the time with your family.  The weather is finally warming up for a change after the cold weekend.  Here at OCS, we are having a "Red, White and a Die" challenge and the design team are using the January release of High Hopes Rubber Stamps.

For my post today, I have used the adorable Favourite Honey Bear.  I coloured the image with the Spectrum Noir Pencils, added Ranger Distress Ink to the image.  I hand wrote the sentiment as I didn't have a suitable sentiment.  The hearts were coloured with a red Stella of Wink, and the clear was used for the honey and flower centers. The mesh was from my stash.

Supplies used:

• Stamp:  Favourite Honey Bear (High Hopes Rubber Stamps)
• Ink:  Staz-On Jet Black, Rangers Distress Inks:  Mowed Lawn and Salty Ocean
• Paper:  Prisma Creamy White Cardstock
• Spectrum Noir Pencils:  05, 120, 1112, 117, 015 (Essentials); 113, 108 (Nature); 027, 024 (Primaries)
• Spellbinders:  Exquisite Circles, Heart Squares
• Wink of Stellla:  Red and clear

There is still plenty of time to enter this month's challenge for a chance to win a prize pack from OCS.  If you are in need of some retail therapy, check out Lora's brick and mortar and online OCS stores for some amazing products and prices.

Until next time, keep crafting up a storm and enjoy yourself. 

Hugs,