Sleepy Santa

Well, here we are on the last day of November, and I've pretty much managed to stick to my personal challenge of posting a card a day for the entire month.  I missed a couple of days, but made up for it the day after, and posted a snow globe one day instead of a card (but there was stamping & colouring in it!).  What you didn't know is that I had a rush project come up in the first few days of the month, where I made an additional 9 or 10 paper craft projects that haven't appeared on my blog!  I'm pretty proud that I still managed to post cards during those few days of hectic crafting.  You can expect my posts to slow down a bit over the next few weeks as I get all those cards addressed and in the mail... I'll pretty much be back to my usual 3 or 4 posts a week, I'm sure.  Here's what I've put together today:

This is one of the three images that come with the Sleepy Santa Try-fold set from Art Impressions.  They are intended to be used together on a three panel card, but they are lovely just used on their own as I have here.  I made a second card which is a complete CASE of a card I made a few weeks ago:

So all in all, I've managed to make 31 cards this month, and my stash is looking pretty good.

Patterned papers are Elf Magic, Bo Bunny; Cardstock is Pacifica, Cranberry & White Daisy, CTMH; Ink is Tuxedo Black, Memento; Copic Markers; Twine is American Crafts; Window die is Memory Box; Sentiment dies are Verve.

 

Sleepy Santa Try-Fold card

We have a new challenge up on the Art Impressions blog "Fun Folds" so I am sharing two cards that I've made using the newly released "Sleepy Santa TF (sku#4341)".

 

Caution!  Multiple photos ahead... There are a few (easy) steps involved in making a tri-fold card, so I took photos at every step of the way to give you a clear idea of the process.  The packaging that comes with your stamp set contains all the measurements you'll need to stamp it accurately.  I started with a piece of 11" x 5 1/4" white cardstock, scored in 3 5/8" from each side:

I've stamped the fireplace image in the middle section, about 1/2" down from the top.  The tree and Santa are done on the backside of the paper, 1 3/4" and 2" down from the top - you might see my pencil marks that I used as a stamping guideline.

I've used Copics to colour my cards, here's a close-up of the tree:

After colouring, I cut down the score marks, and around the images, leaving a halo of about 1/16".  I applied adhesive to the center rectangular panel, and glued it down to my base:

Copic markers bleed through cardstock, so I've cut white backings and glued them to the backsides of the tree & Santa, and I stamped my sentiment under the fireplace:

I wrapped two pieces of twine around the card and tied them in a bow to hold my card shut:

The wonderful thing about the Try-Fold stamp sets, are that the images stand on their own - so here is a regular folded card using just the Santa image:

 Any card using a 'different' fold works for the challenge, so hop on over to the Ai blog and enter - there are always great prizes to be won, and there is a free stamp with a $30 purchase until October 20th: