Janine (Jay_Bee) has such a fun Falliday Fest Challenge, to create a card depicting a climate different from the one we are used to at Christmas!
I swear that somewhere in the vast black hole of my craft room there is a Santa hat stamp...I'll probably find it at Easter! I found one in MS Word Clip Art, sized it to fit the flamingo, printed it on Whisper White CS & fussy-cut it. Stamped the flamingo on Whisper White, using the MISTI to get a good image, and also to stamp the flowers at his feet in Dandelion ink, with Bamboo Leaves ink for the, well, the leaves! Colored the flamingo with colored pencils, using Gamsol & a blending stump to get good coverage. Fussy-cut the flamingo, & added his hat. Then I went around the edges of just the flamingo & hat with a Memento Tuxedo Black brush marker, so he would stand out against the background panel.
Stamped the sentiments onto a scrap of PP, & die-cut them with the Chit-Chat dies. Adhered them to scraps of the PP, & fussy-cut a border around each one.
The pink pineapple was fussy-cut from the PP. Stamped the drink glass & holly from Happy Hour, colored it with Wink-of-Stella, & fussy-cut that also. Popped everything up with dimensionals on a panel from the PP & adhered to card front.
This card is for my cousin in Miami, who usually gets cards from me (in frozen Minnesota!) depicting snow, snow, and more snow! He will get a large charge out of this! I computer-generated the inside sentiment just for him: "When you start seeing pink flamingos in Santa hats, maybe you've had one too many cups of Christmas cheer!"
TFL!
Date: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 GMT Views: 637
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Fri, Nov 15, 2019 @ 2:55 PM
clever make do with the Santa hat! I love what you've done with Janine's challenge. Love the wild color and papers. I think I just might CASE you as I've got a flamingo or two. Well done.
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Sat, Nov 23, 2019 @ 2:29 PM
What a fun, tropical-inspired Christmas card this is! I love the fun colors, the tropical flowers and drinks and this wonderful flamingo wearing a santa hat no less! The inside sentiment is an absolute hoot my friend! This wonderful card will truly delight your cousin in Florida. ~Karen.