DT: Creative Knockouts – time to be merry

Hello dear blog readers! I’m back with another design team contribution – this time for Creative Knockouts where our challenge is full on festive with ‘time to be merry’.

The challenge is sponsored by Mirtillamente stamps and I am using About Christmas No. 1 but only one part of it as it comes with six images in total – but I made an error in printing (must not have used my brain cell!) and it printed larger than I expected so decided to use just the one image on this card!

The line art is so fun for the images and easy to colour – but even better it is good for adding in fun elements like this puffy enamel accents for the hat!

I added some really quick watercolour to the image to bring in the colour and some shading in the beard and then fussy cut out with a wide border around the image (I think with thick line art the wider border looks more proportionate).

Then added the satin white puffy enamel accents and set it aside to dry. This part is important – no prodding at it with your fingers – you will only make a mess!

I looked through the stash of the patterned paper left in my Christmas box and found this fab bold stripe. Perfect for a simple background that has lots of detail.

Then I die cut a scrap of the light green card twice with the label die. I inked up the edges lightly with green ink and then stacked and die cut it with the texture plate die from Waffleflower. This gave it a fun background for the Santa to sit on.

I added a mat of the black and then added it to the 5×7 card. Then added the Santa image and the Tim Holtz sticker sentiments to bring the black into the front too. Again the bold line art meant I wanted the black to go throughout the card front in a few ways.

Decided with the texture from the hat no further embellishment required.

Now to decide what to do with the other images in the digital stamp and how to use them! But first off to see what everyone else did with their cards on the design team!

Happy crafting!

Catherine