Inspired by {Bonners Christmas}

 This week Kia is sharing the Bonner's Christmas site and I came across this Santa costume (face) and I stopped looking because, I have a pile of my Santa Dies on my table waiting to be played with.

 So I started with the Sizzix Tim Holtz BigZ die and cut out all the pieces with some Textured white, Basic Grey red pring and some Bazzill Textured green and a small scrap of what I think may be My Favorite Things insulation pink. ( I used it for his face) 

And I did use all those DOX inks on the edges of all these pieces you see here. And then I started thinking this is going to fill a A2 sized card and I thought, I had something saved over the years that someone did thinking to keep it for inspiration and I finally found it again. It was done by the late Jeanne Streiff seen here and she did all the white with this awesome texture to make it look like frosting and I thought OK, I am not going to do that but, I also liked that she placed her Santa face on the textured back ground. I know I seen somewhere that people were doing tribute projects and so, that has been in the back of my mind but, I really didn't have a plan for this so, it was kind of neat that it all just kind of worked out this way. a doubly inspired piece I guess you can call it. 

So I put some foam pop dots under St. Nick's face and then stamped this sentiment from the Tim Holtz Christmas overlays set and then used the matching SSS die for it and layered it along there at the bottom. This texture here is the Tim Holtz Intertwined 3-D folder and I added some DOX antique linen, Speckled egg & Vintage photo inks to it along with some Weathered wood. I cut this out with a Spellbinders Perfect touch rectangle die and used some scotch tape on the back side of it where it ripped. And then I seen this box of premade A2 sized cards (49 & Market evergreen season)  ( I am trying to use up these things and this ones color I thought was perfect so I used it but, I built the card front too heavy for this card base so, I am considering Cutting this in half and then gluing what you see here to a sturdy piece of cardstock for a base.  The red dot on the holly leaves is from a Recollections valentines day pack of such things. ( its not as 3-d as a pearl so I am not sure what it is called.) That's about it from me, If you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here at SCS.  I hope you are doing well & Thanks for stopping by.