Santa Needs A Little R&R!

Hello my card making friends and Happy New Year!  I think that Santa deserves a little bit of R&R after such a hectic season.

For this card, I inked the background with Chipped Sapphire, Blueprint Sketch and Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide Ink.  I recently purchased some of Lisa Horton's Cloud 9 Interference Ink Pads and thought that I might play around with them using the Layered Fireworks Stencil.   They are a little bit different than some of the other inks I've used but I am very intrigued with them.  I have some other ideas on using them so I will share them in the future.  I do like the way the fireworks turned out.  

For the sandy ground, I used a light tan cardstock and added a little Vintage Photo Distress Oxide to add a little definition and texture.  I cut the hills using the Lawn Fawn Hillside Border Dies.

The Santa is from the Hau’oli Mau Lanui stamp set.  I also used the die to cut him out.  I really like this die because it does such a nice job cutting out the area between the palm trees and Santa.

I colored the image with Copic markers in the following colors:

• E13, E23, E25 - Palm Tree Trunks
• E27, E29 - Coconuts
• YG01, YG05, G05 - Palm Tree Fronds
• YR02, YR07 - Orange Shirt
• R11 - Cheeks
• E00, E01 - Skin
• Y04, Y15 - Yellows
• R17, R27, R29 - Reds
• BG13, BG15 - Shorts
• C0, C1 - Beard

For the sentiment, I used Simply Sentimental: Happy and heat embossed it with white embossing powder.  I also used the coordinating die to cut it out.  The "New Year" is also from that set.  I stamped that using just a regular ink.

This card just makes me smile.  I can definitely relate to needing just a little bit of time to regroup after the holiday - how about you?

Thanks so much for stopping by today and again, I hope you have the happiest New Year!

Sandy