Zig markers

Santa & Yoga

Hello. I’m trying my hand at another CAS card, and thought this Santa doing a yoga pose would be perfect for the central image.

One of our UK stores has started to stock Gummiapan dies, and this set – there are 3 Santa’s in 3 different poses – just seemed so whimsical and fun, I purchased them.

The first step was to die cut the three Santa’s with water-colour card stock, then colour them all using my Zigs. I used a couple of different red tones, brown, and light grey as well as a peach colour for the skin.

I coloured all three, but liked this one the best.

Now for the sentiment, and I chose this from Pinkfresh Studio, as it included the word ‘peace’, and also had a border at the top for the Santa to balance upon.

The sentiment was stamped directly onto a white card base, then the die cut Santa added with glue.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

CAS on Friday – CAS Christmas in July

Ally’s Angels – anything goes

Die Cut Divas – die cuts & Christmas in July

Merry Little Christmas Challenge – anything goes Christmas

Water Colour Poinsettias

Hello. ABC Christmas Challenge has reached the letters ‘W’ and ‘X’. We want to see your Christmas creations with the following themes:

W is for Water colouring, X is for Xylophone

Here is my card for the water colouring theme:

The poinsettia image is from Pinkfresh Studio – the Poinsettia Frame collection – and I chose to heat emboss the image. There are matching items for this set – a hot foil plate, a stencil set for colouring, as well as the matching die.

Once the image was gold heat embossed, I broke out my Zig markers and water coloured them. I don’t do much water colouring, I don’t actually enjoy the process, but I actually have fun with this image and the Zigs – I forget how they are really good to colour with.

Once the image was coloured, I let it dry, then used the matching die to cut out the frame.

I chose a deep purple card panel, and dry embossed with a Spellbinders embossing folder, then placed the frame on that with 3D foam.

The foiled sentiment was added to the centre, and then I played with glossy accents – using that on each berry, and the centre of the flowers.

I thought the centre needed more, so I also added some Pinkfresh Studio gold gems.

I hope you can come and join us with your Christmas creations following one or both of our themes. xx