Holly, Jolly St. Nick Card by Maria Giselle

Hello! It is Christmas Eve for us here in the U.S. One Christmas tradition especially for children is to track Santa Claus, also known as St. Nick, as he travels the world delivering presents. This is a Santa Claus inspired card. I hope you like it.

I inked the Santa Claus stamp from the Blank Page Muse Country Vintage Christmas Rubber Art Stamps Sheet on a white cardstock using red ink.

I heat set the stamped image to speed dry it before I colored it.

I used red alcohol markers in coloring the image. 

It did not take a lot of time to color the image.

I need a placement guide for the Dear Santa stamp since I will be creating a word background. I stamped the sentiment on a see through plastic using a stamp positioner. 

A limitation of the rubber stamp is you can't see where you are actually stamping the image. A stamp positioner helped solve this problem. I placed the see through plastic with the stamped sentiment over the cardstock where I want to stamp the sentiment. I butt the stamp positioner tool to the corner of the see through plastic. 

Leaving the stamp positioner and the cardstock in place, I gently lifted the see through plastic. I butted the acrylic block with the rubber stamp to the stamp positioner and stamped the inked sentiment to the cardstock. I kept repeating this process until I filled the front of the card with this sentiment. 

If you notice, I masked a part of the panel with a paper cut with a scalloped circle die. This is where the focal point will be adhered. You don't need to mask this area since it will be covered anyway by the focal image. 

I die cut the colored Santa Claus image using a scalloped circle die.

I die cut a red cardstock with the same scalloped die.

To create this into a frame, I used a circle die larger than the scalloped window.

I created a mask of Santa Claus by stamping the image on a thin paper, then fussy cutting it. I am actually using one of the stamped impressions that I made a mistake on.

I covered the stamped Santa on the scalloped piece with this mask. 

I placed a stencil over the scalloped piece and blended a gray dye ink over the stencil to add some snow details on the back of Santa. I used the same gray ink I used for the sentiment background.

I continued to blend more ink around Santa to mute the white background.

I pieced this stamped scalloped piece on the frame securing the pieces together by taping the pieces on the back.

I adhered the focal point to the stamped background panel.

I added shimmer to Santa's hat using the pigment from a shimmer pen. You can paint straight to your project with the shimmer pen but my pen sometimes releases blobs of ink which ruins my project. So what I do is put the ink on a palette and pick it up with a paint brush to apply it to my project.

Let me greet you in behalf of the Blank Page Muse & I Brake For Stamps DT, a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!

Maria Giselle B.

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