Classic Design Challenge : Santa

 Welcome back again to this month's Classic Design Team Challenge! It's that time of year again where we start thinking about Christmas and making or sending out our Christmas cards. 

I have a great image from Dr. Digi featuring Santa himself, checking the naughty and nice list. Have you checked to see if your name is on his "nice" list? I'm sure it is! Here is a link to his digi store Dr. Digi and here is a link to my Santa image : Naughty or Nice. Dr. Digi has some great quality digi stamps in his store, and I hope you go check them out!

I colored my image in with Copic markers, then used MFT's Double Stitched Rectangles to cut it out with a decorative border around it. I then sponged some Distress Inks around the image to "age" it and tone down the white cardstock, as my design papers and lace panel is off white/cream. After sponging, I matted my image with a red cardstock from Bazzil. I layered a cream lace panel cut from a die by Stampin Up, then matted that under my image, over some design papers from The Paper Studio's "Old World Winter" collection. I completed the matting by adding one more cardstock layer of a reflective gold from Tim Holtz's Metallic Cardstock collection, then I added a few holly diecuts from Tim Holtz's Ideology "Christmas Botanicals" collection. My sentiment is from Fresh Pink's "Foiled Holiday Sentiments".

And there you have it. My take on Dr. Digi's Santa inspired digi stamp. I really love how it turned out. I'm not the greatest at coloring in people, but how can you mess up Santa?! LOL!

Thank you for joining us this month in our Classic Design Challenge! I'll see you here for next month's inspiration! And don't forget! Santa Claus is coming to town .... !

Spring's Coming!

Spring's coming! I just called my mom and she told me that the weather forecast has called for SNOW this weekend! But out here in California, the blossoms on the trees have fallen off and fruit is starting to appear. One of my favorite thing to do is pick fruits and berries in the spring. This year I look forward to cherry, strawberry and raspberry picking. So I pulled out my Flourishes Berry Sweet set to celebrate the coming fruit season.

I used Berry Sweet stamping it out and coloring it in with the Poppy, Sweet Pea and Olive Green Copic Collections, then fussy cut it out, popping it up on popdots. I placed my image on a diecut that I stamped   Love and Lace in Stampin Up Sage Shadow, then I matted everything with a Spellbinder Romantic Rectangle. After I matted it, I tied an Ivory May Arts bow, that I added an Ivory Button and Metallic String to finish my card.

I have to admit, fall is my favorite time of the year, but spring is my close second! There's something about all those blossoms and the anticipation of the coming fruit! :)

Splitcoast Product Review : Spellbinders!!

Hello Friends, it's time for another Splicoast Stampers Product Review. Today is all about the newest Spellbinders that have been released and they are Gorgeous! How can you not love these? I mean, don't we all use Spellbinders at one time or another? :)

Here is just a taste of one of the cards I made with Spellbinders newest 5x7 die sets.

This has to be one of my all time favorite products to review! As you can tell, I loved them. If you want to see my review with the rest of the team, and all of our card samples, please visit Splitcoast Stampers HERE!