Welcome to the last Stamping Sunday Blog Hop for 2018. This month we are featuring our favourite item from the Holiday Catalogue. I have chosen the very summery and non traditional So Santa Stamp Set as these kind of images are ever so popular in the South Pacific, with Christmas falling in the middle of our Summer.
Our local fire brigade volunteers a fire truck so Santa and his helpers visit every house on Christmas morning, with his shorts and thongs, bellowing Merry Christmas as he throws lollies to all the neighbourhood kids. Local surfers will sport a Santa Hat on Christmas Day if there are waves to ride, in fact its not unusual to see a sea of red hats down any beach in Australia on Chrissy Day.
I decided to use that cute little surfing Santa to create a bauble for our Christmas Tree along with four cards in four different colours.
The dome has a screw bottom so all I had to do was stamp, colour and fussy cut the Santa image with a little tab on the bottom so I could adhere him to the plastic dome with a few glue dots. The Palm tree was made with the Tropical Chic Thinlits and some Wood texture DSP. Some beautiful white Singleton Beach sand has been added to the bottom before screwing together.
All four cards are exactly the same design, I have just changed the colours of DSP and inks used. The sponged background has been completed using Shimmery White card and then adhered to the back of a "photo frame". The Photo Frame is easy to make, just cut a square from the top portion of a rectangular die cut.
The card front has been die cut with the "x" border from the Stitched Labels Framelits in a zig zag pattern. This was then adhered to the whisper white card base. A layer of craft foam has been added to the back of the "photo frame" as these are being posted, the craft foam prevents any squishing or dents.
The frangipani flower from Tropical Chic was stamped in Pineapple Punch for all four cards, with the leaves of each card changing to coordinate with the DSP and coloured sponging.
The four colours used for the set of cards are Flirty Flamingo, Grapefruit Grove, Blueberry Bushel and Highland Heather.
Thanks for stopping by today. The DT Team at Sunday Stamping wish you all a safe and happy Festive Season. Until next month, stay awesome and stay crafty
Jackie, your bauble is amazing!! And so are you very Aussie themed Christmas cards! xxx
ReplyDeleteYour cards are really very cool, dear Jackie...I'd like to join your Santa on the beach!!
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Oh my goodness Jackie! These are adorable beyond words and that little dome is magnificent! I love all of the colours and your ink blending is superb.
ReplyDeleteYour cards are darling! I love the colors you've used. I used this stamp for my Christmas cards since in Minnesota most people are wishing they could be in a tropical climate this time of year.
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