Several at class were asking about the images so I went looking for some. I found quite a few vintage Santas at the Graphics Fairy under Christmas. Click here, here, here and here for some great Santas. If Santa is not your thing you will also find angels, children, birds, poinsettias, Madonna and Child, manger and nativities as well. There are quite a few more of each there, as well as images of winter scenes, holly, animals, etc. Check it out!!
I created the background for this card in Corel Draw by arranging some Christmas words and sayings nicely nestled into each other using different fonts. The fun part is that because they are all fonts - even the snowflakes - the colour can be easily changed and in this case printed at a percentage of transparency which gives a nice subtle background. Just what I wanted!! We sponged the edges of our backgrounds before we glued them to our card fronts. The bracket was created using the Tim Hotlz (TH) (SX) Hanging Sign die. I only wanted part of the die cut so I cut my pieces of cardstock with the right angle and rough cut the rest, positioned them carefully on my die and ran them through my Big Kick - a perfect bracket for my Santa image. I added a ribbon hanger in the hole of the bracket and simulated a bow by tying on a short piece of ribbon using a single knot to the top layer of my ribbon hanger. Layered the colour printed Santa image over coordinating cardstock and added him to the card front using 3D foam tape.
Therese
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