As Santa is on his way, over at Try it on Tuesday our new challenge for the next two weeks is Guess Who’s Coming? …. Santa, where you will find some amazing creations from my Design Team teamies to inspire you!
We would like to see a Santa somewhere on your creations, so here’s my Santa related art journal page – I hope you like it!
I started by covering the page with some Santa decoupage paper using a glue stick. Then I used some green card from a topper set which I cut into a rectangle and some strips, they are all edged with gold border outline stickers. I stuck them in place using double-sided tape along with a framed Santa image from the same topper set and an envelope addressed to Santa. Next I embellished the page with some gold relief stickers; this included Santa’s sleigh filled with gifts, snowflakes and stars and also some holly and candy canes which I added to the background. To finish, I added three 3D stickers of a candy cane, some holly and a little robin.
This pretty shop is in Lytham and is full of interesting items for the garden; it always has lovely displays that cascade onto the street front. It’s where our friends bought the metal Mushrooms for our garden, you can see them here.
It reminded me of my page with all the Santa memorabilia (grin!).
We always enjoy meeting up with our friends for a walk and a drink so whilst walking in Lytham we went to a café called Zest.
As T Stands for Tuesday I’m joining the T Gang with my hubby’s hot chocolate – yum! Happy T Day everyone!
Sorry I haven’t been around the last week or so, my Dad has had heart surgery and I’ve been busy visiting him and helping my mum whilst he has been in hospital. I’m pleased to say he is home now and doing ok – yay!
Challenges
I’m glad I found out about Challenge Blogs, like Try it on Tuesday, as I enjoy taking part, they provide me with inspiration for my pages and are a wonderful way to meet like-minded arty people. So here are the challenges I’m joining today:
Bleubeard and Elizabeth who blog at Altered Book Lover are hosting My Favorite Season, or ‘Tis the Season challenge over at Art Journal Journey, so I’m pleased to join them with my festive Santa page!
I’m pleased to be able to join the Christmas challenge over at Country View Challenges with my Santa page.
With all the pretty gold stars I added to my page I’m joining in the fun over at A Vintage Journey and their Star Light Star Bright challenge; I was inspired by Santa and used a Mixed Media style.
I’m joining Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge and their Warm Winter Wishes challenge with my Santa art journal page.
Over at That’s Crafty! Challenge Blog their theme is Anything Goes so I’m pleased to join this challenge with my festive page.
I’m also pleased to be able to join the Anything Goes challenge over at Paperbabe Stamps too.
Thanks for joining me today! If you have any questions or comments, I would love to hear from you.
Here is a list of the materials that were used to create this art journal page:
- First Edition Paper Deco Mache Decoupage Paper (FEDEC282X17)
- Hunkydory Crafts Christmas Past Luxury Card and Topper Collection (He’s Checking His List PAST903)
- Pound Stretcher (Letter to Santa Pack 2-98195)
- White card stock
- Docrafts Anita’s Outline Stickers (Straight Line Borders Gold ANT8101016)
- Crelando Relief Stickers (Gold IAN289011)
- Docrafts Papermania 3D Stickers (A Christmas Wish PMA801901)
- Pritt Stick
- Stix2 double-sided tape
- The Range double-sided foam tape