At practically the last moment I am entering the April CAS Christmas Card Challenge. To make the card, I had to borrow an elf stamp, and Karen F, a stamping friend from Australia helped me out. Thanks Karen! Right now she is on her way there, although she now lives near me in Minnesota.
I digress. Here is my card.
To make this card, I first embossed the card base with my Softly Falling embossing folder from Stampin' Up! The folder is still available. Using my MISTI, I stamped in Versfine Onyx Black ink the elf image. After realizing the little elf would be bumpy with the snow, I decided to stamp him again on a scrap and fussy cut him out. Can you see him standing in a snow storm? The stamp set I used is called Christmas Elf and is labeled © STM 2009 which I found is from Stampendous. I could not find it to buy except on eBay. I colored the elf in green, red, silver, and gold Gelly Roll Metallic pens. His face and ears were done with a stash skin colored pencil and I added some pink on his cheeks. The white parts of his outfit were colored with a Signo Uni-ball White pen and then I topped it with Wink of Stella Clear. I popped him up on SU Mini Dimensionals. The cute sentiment is stamped on a label punched out with SU punch called Petite Curly. Inside also from the set, is a punched label reading "...a cozy new year". Truly a CAS card, I think. In retrospect, tho, I should have a shadow under his feet to mimic him standing in the snow.
So glad to finish this card. Thanks for stopping by. Bye for now!
