December Dirty Dozen Christmas

 I can not hardly believe it is already December. I have to laugh at my self as even just a couple of years ago I thought time moved quickly. It's sped up again for me. At any rate the very last prompt for playing along with the Dirty Dozen and creating for Christmas is up here in the forums for Fan Club members at Splitcoaststampers and I ended up going this away for my sample. 

I ended up stamping this Santa Hat (from The Stamp Pad) on some Artist loft watercolor paper and painting it with Daniel Smith and Windsor & Newton (red) paints. When that was dry I cut the watercolor paper with an Honeybee stamps deckle square die and inked the edges with some DOX vintage photo ink as it was a similar color as the crackle in this paper I found in an Craft Consortium Test of time pad. Lately I have been trying really hard to not pay package type postage costs for my cards, so. I have been keeping them at 5 1/2" square and fairly flat so they will slid through that slot at the post office. with that in mind. I did just cut off two snips of this ribbon and wrapped it around the printed paper layer and just under the edges of the painted layer so, there is not ribbon twice across the whole bottom of the card. the corner of the sentiment panel (Stamp is from the Taylored Expressions Santa stop here set) and cut with an old Spellbinders mega deckle rect. die I just folded my glue dot in that bottom right corner in half as that edge was up slightly because of the ribbon above it instead of you know putting foam pop dots under the whole thing. 

I did go over the berries with a white gel pen ( which was not very visible with all the rest of the white) and a bronze sparkle paint on the jingle bells ( again not much shimmer as there is also a lot of brown on this card) so, I decided to add some Nuvo Crystal glaze in those areas. It is still pretty subtle even in real life.  That's about it from me, Thanks for stopping by.