Happy Early Christmas! We are celebrating Christmas as an option this month at Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge. Well, I am always up for a bit of Christmas crafting.
I decided to go with a tag as I use so many of them at Christmas time on gifts for the family that I need to have a lot ready by the big day. Some I save and re-use them the following year but shh don't tell the family they never notice. They are too nice just to throw away.
I love this vintage image of Santa by Tim Holtz and he is now my go-to Santa for Christmas projects. He came as a small set with some matching stencils called Vintage Holidays. I used Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks to create the background and did some background stamping.
I coloured in the Santa with Distress Ink re-inkers and a water brush to give a bit more of a stronger look to the colour. I used a white Posca pen for the white bits on his coat. All the extra details came from Tim Holtz Idealogy Christmas pack from a few years ago. The gorgeous ribbons are also Tim Holta Idealogy - I just kept adding little details and really had to stop myself and say enough it's done lol! A few white splatters just to lift the colour a little bit and I decided that was it.
I'm adding this into the following challenges:
