Ha!! I think I’m giving up my age :-) I used to love those commercials! When we were teens we used to say that all the time…is it real or is it Memorex? Well when I was working on this card, I was so taken with how real that Santa face looks. The artist’s shading is perfect . . .Becky Fleck – you are so taking the fun out of stamping!! I don’t have to sit and look at an image for hours trying to figure out where the shading is going to go. And hey, I picked out four colors for shading and you killjoy – I could only use one. Okay, all kidding aside, I really like doing all of those things especially when I’m in the mood to color, but honestly I found this to be a stamp and go stamp. By the way, this is one of Flourishes newly released Christmas sets called Santa – I Believe, by their new artist – Becky (yes you know her from PageMaps) Fleck!! Based on this set I cannot wait to see what she has coming next!!
Alright, so here’s where I went to get Santa colored. Leaving the bulk of the stamp blank, I colored the holly leaves with the edge of my green dye based ink pad, hit the holly berries with a red tombow marker and stamped down one time. After cleaning up my stamp I then inked it back up with CTMH Desert Sand, carefully lined things up through the clearness and stamped again. I tapped a clean q-tip into some CTMH Cherub Pink chalk and very lightly burnished it into his cheek. That’s it – it doesn’t get any simpler :-)
Just to give the card a different look I masked the santa face and overstamped with a text stamp. I used this stamp for the text while I really wanted to use this stamp. I smudged my panel with both Brushed Corduroy and Vintage Photo Distress Inks.
| Card Recipe: Stamps: Flourishes – Santa – I Believe, Thank You Paper: The Paper Company, Die Cuts with a View – Holiday Collection Ink: Colorbox Pigment – Cranberry, Distressed Ink – Brushed Corduroy and Vintage Photo, Green dye based ink Accessories: Ribbon, Pearls, EK Sucess Scroll Punch, EK Success Scalloped Scallop Punch, Tombow Marker |
Is October really almost over? Where does the time go? So glad you stop by to spend some of your time here :-)
hoi Becca!!!
what a beauty, so sat that i can not understand how you did that, my englisch is not so good.
this card is realy so cute!!!
have a nice day
greeting anneke
wow! love the face and the sublety of it. have you tried any other colors for the face?
c
A vrey beautiful Christmas card Becca!
Beautiful as usual Becca. Love the Santa done this way, and the double punched edging.
My gosh Becca – you continually out-do yourself!! This is really & truly stunning.
Becca, you do such breath-takingly beautiful work!
Absolutely beautiful! LOVE this card.
Absolutely beautiful!!
Great vintage looking card; love the hint of coloring. tfs
The vintage look and colours are beautiful – love the Santa face. The corner accent and background words are a nice touch too.
Bernice
I just spent about an hour reading all the quotes you post on the top upper left side of your blog. Thank you!! They are very thought provoking and insightful
Becca Becca Becca
Beautiful I love the Santa and the Scroll punch is just WOW!
Please tell me is that punch still available…
Wow! What a delightful image and you do it so beautifully!! TFS!!!
Becca,
BRAVO!!! BRAVO!!! (I yelled clapping my hands)
~~Diane~~
Becca,
Gorgeous, elegant, very pretty.
Hugs,
Lisa Atha
What a gorgeous card and I love the Santa!!
LOL! Becca, I had to laugh because I STILL use that saying :) Your card is absolutely stunning.
Your Santa is gorgeous Becca!! WOW!
Good evening, Becca. This is such a beautiful card. Just love how you’ve stamped and coloured the main focus and those punched edgings are delightful.
Wow simply gorgeous! I had to click on the link to make sure it was a stamp. Gorgeous!
It may be simple but….it does not look that way. It is just gorgeous Becca. It is so soft and elegant. I really LOVE this card.
Stunning card! Although the coloring is subtle the overall effect is very striking. Love all your finishing touches, as usual!
WOW! THis is absolutely STUNNING, Becca!! STUNNING!
Beautiful vintage card Becca. That image is such fun with fond memories of years ago. TFS!!!
Where did you get the punches!?! I haven’t seen those! What a beautiful card. Thanks for sharing.
Just gorgeous Becca!! Have a wonderful weekend.
I love what you did with the santa Becca!! My favorite part of this set are those sentiments…so beautiful.
Oh my……….this is stunning. Love the old time look and this stamp is perfect. You did an amazing creation here with the perfect layout. Love it!!!!
Brenda
Ho Ho HO !!! So realistic what an awsome card. Thank you for sharing.
Hugs, Judy
Just Beautiful Becca! Think I might NEED to add this Santa to my collection–I’m a Santa stalker, LOL! Lovely!
hugz,
Suzanne
I love this card, very very cute. I have looked high and low for the swirl punch at the bottom of this card and I can’t find it anywhere. Who makes it and do you know where I can find it? Please help.
MaryLou
Becca I hope to soon see a Becca video on how do this masking. I’ve never seen it done. But would love to be able to acheive this look. Santa is beautiful.