It's the last day of our sponsor week with KLM Designs at 365 Cards. I had so much fun playing with the 2 images I worked with this week. In keeping with my "25 Days of Christmas" plan for the month, today's card is no exception.
The challenge for today is to use a Candy Cane as your inspiration! I got lucky in that my image has candy canes in it. But, I also created some candy cane inspired background paper to get in the spirit of the challenge!
This is "Elf Girl"....isn't she adorable! I fell in love with both of the elf images and love that I got to play with both of them! I definitely intend to make some gift tags with these 2 images over the next week (so stay tuned for that post in another week or so!).
I printed Elf Girl on my cardstock and colored her with Copics. For the striped paper - I created that using PTI's Faux Ribbon set (To make it really easy to line everything up, I lightly drew guidelines in pencil with my ruler before stamping. Then I just lightly erased them away after the ink dried). I also stamped the polka dots on the green card base to give it a little something extra. The card was a little too plain and unbalanced without that element. The polka dots really pulled everything together!
For the sentiment, I used another PTI set - Holiday Button Bits. The sentiment is actually in one line, so I had to play with it to get it aligned on top of each other (took me much longer than it should have!). I punched that out with my circle punch - after stamping the polka dot border - then layered it on top of a scallop circle punch. To add in a little extra sparkle, I used my clear glitter pen to add dots to the scallop circle and to accent Elf Girl's dress and hat (I love that pen - it looks like sparkly diamonds!). I used the buttons and ribbon to, again, add a little balance and weight to the card.
That's it for me today! Hope you've enjoyed our sponsor week & be sure to stop back in tomorrow for another fun sketch by our fearless leader Pam!
Supplies:
- Cardstock: Old Olive (Stampin' Up!); Pure Poppy, Stamper's Select White (Papertrey Ink)
- Stamps: Faux Ribbon, Borders & Corners: Circles, Holiday Button Bits, Polka Dot Basics (Papertrey Ink); Elf Girl (KLM Designs)
- Ink: Dark Chocolate, Pure Poppy (Papertrey Ink);Old Olive (Stampin' Up!)
- Accessories: Ribbon (Stampin' Up! - retired); Buttons (Papertrey Ink); Embroidery Floss (DMC); Glitter Pen (Sakura); Copics
- Tools: 1-3/8" Circle Punch, Scallop Circle Punch (Stampin' Up!)





