Letter To Santa From Art Anthology And Stampendous

Ho ho ho my dear Friends! Welcome to the totally mixed-medialicious blog team up from Stampendous and Art Anthology! Oh, we are having so much fun this week playing with lovely stamps and paints - what can be more enjoyable than smooshing silky, dimensional paints around and adding some rubber stampin'?

Yes, we're loving it and we hope you will, too! We've got lots of inspiration prepared for your viewing pleasure, lots of helpful tips and ideas.

And to make this collaboration even more fun, we have prizes! There will be three lucky winners, each will receive a superb mixed media prize pack: 

Creative Palette Monoprinting Plate

$20 Stampendous Gift Card

6 X 9 Art Anthology Stencil

1 - Colorations Spray 

1 - Dimensional Paint 

1 - Dimesional Crystal

To be in with a chance of winning, visit the participating blogs playing throughout the week and leave some love (yes, we love comments, your kind words make us really happy and fill our creative hearts with joy!). The more love you leave, the more chances to win (NB. the winner must have a US shipping address). You have until the end of Sunday 14th December to enter.


Now onto my inspiration. This is my second take on the  Jumbo Dear Santa stamp, which I absolutely adore. My previous sparkly Christmas Santa card had more of a 'colourful shabby chic' vibe. This time I opted for a textured art journal-ish style but still in keeping with a vintage look I was after.

I started by creating a background for my card using the paints, inks, stamps and the Bubble stencil. Here is my finished background.

Supplies:

Stampendous: snowflakes stamp from Jumbo Penguin Snow, script stamp from Stack Art Angel Wings Kit
Art Anthology: Heart and Silk Tie Color Sprays, Stone Effects - Sand Stone, Sorbet - Kenyan Copper, Velvet - Lemon Tart; Bubbles stencil

I cut some scrap pieces of patterned paper to form a Christmas tree and adhered it to the background with Adhesive Sheets. I stenciled the baubles through the Bubbles stencil with Kenyan Copper paint. The star was painted with the Lemon Tart.

Next I stamped the Jumbo Dear Santa onto kraft card and coloured it with Inktense pencils. I added some accent highlights to the Santa's suit with the Kenyan Copper paint - I love shimmer paints and this one is supper yummy! I popped the Santa onto some 3D Foam Squares and adhered him to the card.

To finish the card I added some rub-ons, banner and cut of words (from Prima flowers packaging).

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L: Adhesive Sheets 6x12", 3D Foam Pennants, 3D Foam Squares - Mix White, Crafty Power Tape.

Other: Inktense Pencils, Echo Park Lovely Notables papers, Finnabair Prima - Vintage Vanity, Opaque Cotton White StazOn ink, Black Archival ink, Dylusions White Linen ink spray, Maya Road Calendar rub-ons.

Soooo... playing today are:

Stampendous Blog

Asia King (that's me!)

Janelle Stollfus

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Art Anthology Blog

Thanks for stopping by and for all your lovely comments! Happy hoppin'!

Big hugs 





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