Santa's Sleigh Card with Stampin Up

Santa's Sleigh Card By Stampin Up
 
Christmas is just around the corner and I am in the mood to made some Christmas Cards. The one I would like to share with you this month is Santa's Sleigh with his reindeer. You have seen me do this card fold before, but so many have asked to see it in other seasons. 

Supplies: 

Santa's Sleigh Stamp set (142057)  or  Bundle  (143499) Save 10%       
Santa's Sleigh Thinlits Dies  (140278)
Very Vanilla card stock  4 1/4 x 11, 3 3/4 x 5,  2 pieces  2 1/2 x 5, 2 x 11
Gold Foil card stock  4 x 5 1/4, 2 pieces of 2 3/4 x 5 1/2, 2 1/2 x 4, 2 1/4 x 11
Soft Suede to cut 6 reindeer 
Candy Cane Lane Baker's Twine (141983)
Markers to color the presents and trees. 

Instructions:

To make this card stand out, start by scoring your base card at 5 1/2, and 2 3/4. Then score both the gold foil and very vanilla strip.  Be sure to stamp and cut out 6  reindeer. 

Stamp and color 3 trees. Oh and 1 star

Die Cut both sections of the sleigh.  Add your Christmas packages. 

Now when you are ready to assemble; Fold your base card in half the fold the top half back on itself. Do the same to your strip. Only when you are ready to put the strip on the card place the 5 1/2 strip on the 2 3/4 part of the base card. In short, the strip is opposite the base card. 

You are going to love making this card. When mailing it is going to require extra postage, because it is a little bulky. 



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Our next crop is Oct 1st from 9 am to 11 pm @ The Country Inn and Suites, 201 Airport Blvd Morrisville, NC 14 hours of scrapbooking-card making for only $14. per person. Scrappin and Yappin..... all day long. 
  
Our next card class is Oct 21 at 6:30 pm and Oct 22 at 1 pm. This month we will be "Shaking it up" with shaker card classes. Monthly class are held in my craft room, so email me for my address. (Raleigh, NC)

I am proud to be apart of the NC SU Blog Hop: Please continue to see other great blogs. 



Elaine Brown-Pelletier -
http://www.papercraftsbyelaine.com/2016/09/santas-sleigh-card-with-stampin-up.html

Tamra Davis -  http://wp.me/p2QFfC-Df

Jo Anne Hewins -
http://luv2create.typepad.com/my_blog/2016/09/halloween-favs-with-the-nc-demo-blog-hop.html

Melissa Kerman -
http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/thecraftingtreehouse/blog?directBlogUrl=/blog/60800/entry/halloween_sweater_with_cableknit_embossing

Tracie Evans Langley -
http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/traciesallaboutstamping/blog?directBlogUrl=/blog/86481/entry/nc_demos_september_blog_hop

Laurie Meier -
http://stampedgreetings.com/welcome-to-fall-nc-demos-blog-hop/

Sue Root -
http://stampin-with-sue.blogspot.com/2016/09/nc-su-demos-halloweenfall-blog-hop.html  

Adult Coloring Books

 What are you doing with the Adult Coloring Pages after you have finished coloring them? 

Let's think about this for a minute. You go out and purchase a coloring book, printed on thin paper, create beautiful artwork and then??? What?? It stays in the book???

I would like to suggest a different approach. First, let's start with good quality card stock.  Stamp it with lovely pictures, then place them on a base to display in your home, mail them to friends as cards or place them in an album with photos of your family. 

Now that you have the idea, allow me to give you some really easy instruction on how to make your coloring a one of a kind work of art. As previously stated, you need to start with good quality card stock. Stampin Up offers a variety of colors which will allow you to create on different color backgrounds. Of course the Whisper White and Very Vanilla are the most popular, but don't forget other colors. When you are planning to color flowers, use colors like Pool Party, Pink Pirouette, and Sahara Sands to add more color in your background. For nature scenes, try Smoke Slate, Crumb Cake or Mint macroon. Today's coloring books don't offer these great coloring palettes. 

As for what to stamp for you to color? Anything. In the ones I have posted below, I used several different stamp set. Some stamp sets were mixed with others sets. It does not matter if you create a picture or if you just use the same stamp over and over. The page will come to life when you add your color. And it is your own design.

Speaking of adding color! Let's think a minute about what kind of markers or coloring pencils you are planning to use. 

Rule #1 Water and Oil don't mix....... Alcohol/Solvent and Water do not mix either.  With that in mind; if you are planning to use water color markers or coloring pencils, be sure to stamp in an solvent based ink, like Staz On. If you would rather use alcohol markers, use Memento ink. This way you never need to worry about your ink and markers bleeding on your page. ***Want a special trick?  Use your Wink of Stella like an aqua brush with your Stampin Up ink refills. NOW you are water coloring and adding glitter.***

Rule #2  If you are going to use water color with a very wet page; get Stampin Ups water color paper instead of using card stock. It has been my experience that if you are only using a small amount of water to blend, Stampin Ups card stock is great. If you feel the area is getting too wet, just move to a different area giving it time to dry. 

Rule #3 When using markers, use a light touch on the page. I love Stampin Up markers. The brush tip because allow me to add only the amount of color I want on the page. You will feel like you are not even touching the page. Then, when I use the blending marker it just moves the color around, making blending easy. 

Now enjoy coloring pages no one else has, because they are unique to you. You created them from start to finish. 

Need supplies? Come shopping with me at:  elainepelletier.stampinup.net 

See you there.  

I got to go!!! Off to do some coloring....... see ya later.

ElainePelletier.stampinup.net