Vintage Santa

Happy Wednesday, everyone!  How’s the weather in your area?  We went right from winter to summer, I think!  Crazy but I am not complaining! 

I have a Christmas card for you today, using these  two challenges from the Jingle Belles and Merry Monday:

and the “vintage” challenge from Christmas Cards All Year ‘Round:

I used some scraps from my Christmas paper stash and a vintage tag from Brenda Walton:

I used heat embossing as well as dry embossing on the two panels:

The cardinal is a retired Artistic Outpost set and the embossing folder is called Christmas Words & Dots from Sissix.  I did a lot of sponging as well to give it a more vintage look!  Sparkly accents included gold baker’s twine and some champagne glimmer sheet scallops!  Thanks for visiting today!

Cassidy was VERY excited about getting some new sand for the sandbox:

even to the point of laying down in it!

Enjoy your day!

FMS14

I had a special order from a customer for a Christmas card for her granddaughter; she specifically asked for a Santa!  When I saw this week’s Freshly Made Sketches sketch, I was thrilled; it was a perfect sketch for what I had in mind.  Here’s the sketch:

And here’s my BIG card:

This measures a huge 6” square of Santa Claus goodness!  I used a retired SU Santa image, some cute coordinating red & sage papers and a card base of textured Very Vanilla.  She had requested her name on the card, so I computer-generated the sentiment and added it to a little die-cut mitten:

And of course, Santa’s hat is all glittered up, too:

This also qualifies for the Christmas Card All Year Round challenge, which is Anything Goes!  I just love this card, and I hope she does too!  Thanks for looking today!  If you have any questions, just pop me a line!