Excuse me Santa

Good day everyone! Today is my anniversary and a beautiful one at that! Last year my sweet hubby forgot our anniversary and didn't realize it until we went out to dinner with one of our daughters! When she said "Happy Anniversary" the look on his face at the restaurant  was priceless! So this year I received  two cards and gifts, one at midnight and the other today! I asked if he was trying to make up for last year!! He just gave me that beautiful smile of his and said he didn't want to live through it again! LMBO! Yeppers, I gave him a really hard time!!

Yesterday,  I received a package for Sharon Keanly who lives in South Africa! What a pleasant surprise! She sent me one of her cards and she has it posted on  her blog today and trust me, the pictures don't show the real beauty, as it does, in my hands. In the package were 2 rubber and a clear stamp, by one of my most favorite artist, Elisabeth Bell!!! I am so ecstatic to receive them! Also, stamped images of Tilda, Edward and other ones, roses, flowers and I am sure I am leaving something out,  it was an awesome package to open!!! Thank you Sharon!  I am borrowing my friend Lisa's sayings; "My Friends Rock!!!"

Are you making any Christmas cards yet? I started with  today's card which is featuring  Santa Claus by artist Elizabeth O Dulemba who offers her digi's for free and has granted me permission to use and post it today! Elizabeth does illustrations for children books written by other authors and for those she has composed herself!  The books are bright and cheerful and surrounds life events. You can see both the free digi's and her children books on her web page.  I edited Santa Claus in Photo Shop Elements today and added the sentiment. Easy Peasy and if you would like to know how to do this please email me and put Photo Shop in the subject line. 

Challenges:
Oh LaLa Creations: Stripes
Die Cut Dreams: Children Christmas
Bah Humbug: Christmas Card, Favorite medium
Fussy and Fancy: Christmas Colors
Stamp Something: Spots and Stripes
Colour Create: Red, White and Gold
Fab N Funky: Anything goes
Gingersnap Creations: anything goes
Your Next Stamp: anything goes
Simon Says Challenge: Halloween, thanksgiving, Christmas
Creative Inspirations: lace and sparkle...Martha Stewart lace punch
ABC Christmas: Santa

Isn't this just the cutest card? LOL I dearly love it!

Supplies:

• Cryogen: Paper used for stamping and coloring.  
• Copic Colors
• Red: R39, R37, R35,R32
• Black: C5, C3, C1
• Green: G05, G03, G00
• Blue on Teddy: B18. B16. B14, B12
• Blue on Package:  B04, B02, B00
• Gold on package: Y28, Y26, Y11
• Doodlebug crushed velvet: lily white flock on his beard, cap, cuffs of pants and jacket. 
• Martha Stewart Punch
• DP; SEI last years paper
• Bow: Offry Ribbon made with Bow Easy
• Packages: K&C

TIP of the day:  Copic's Colorless Blender:  if you use the colorless blender to fix a problem, tip to tip, or palette blending,  make sure you wipe any color on the blender tip off onto a piece of scratch paper or paper towel. By  not cleaning your tip it will permeate the entire marker and you will no longer be a clear blending marker and instead will have a light color marker. Be extremely careful not to put the wrong cap onto the colorless blender.  Once another color permeates your marker it will be very hard to take it back to it's prior state of being colorless.