As many folks face another Nor’easter in March, it got me thinking about the only thing I love about winter, and that’s Christmas! When our family gets together its always about good food, dancing and singing, so when I saw this super fun Katzelkraft “Christmas Gangnam Style” stamp set, it went on the top of my wish list. I mean, this image is EVERYTHING, right?!
I also got a chance to re-evaluate some more Arteza products (I’ll be sharing a full separate video review of these in a following post). In short, I LOVE the Arteza Fineliner Pens. To color up this image, I used 8 of them: brown, tan, yellow, red, black and three greys and a fine point Arteza water brush to blend out the inks for a watercolored look. Getting into tiny nooks and crannies of the image was so easy with these fineliner pens!
I also used the Arteza Arctic Blue (117) Real Brush Pen and a water brush to create a soft blue haloing background. For some highlighting details, I used a Uniball Signo White Gel Pen on the sun glasses, noses, hooves, boots and gloves; and I added some magical shimmer to the antlers and Santa’s white fur trim with a Clear Wink of Stella Pen.
For the card front, I used scraps from my scrap box from a 2012 Recollections Christmas paper pad called “Memories Never Melt” and inked the edges with some Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Faded Jeans. For a little sparkle, I added a thin strip of silver glitter washi tape on one side. To add the look of a film strip cell (like this was a pic from a music video – hahaha), I used one of the Neat & Tangled Tiny Cuts border dies on the two sides of the image, again inking the edges with more Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Faded Jeans to maintain a cohesive look.
Inside the card, I used the remaining scraps of the Recollections patterned paper from my scrap box. To make it a little more festive, I doodled some bursting stars with the Arteza Black Fineliner Pen. Then to drive home the fun Gangnam Style theme, I used Ranger Super Fine Embossing Powder on a scrap of dark blue card stock to heat emboss the sentiment from the stamp set. I cut it into a simple banner shape and added that as the final touch on the card liner.
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The following is a video sharing the coloring of this image:
This card is being entered into the following challenges:
Word Art Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge
Creatalicious Anything Goes Challenge with Optional Birthday
Through the Craft Room Door Anything Goes Challenge
613 Avenue Create Anything Goes with Optional Reuse/Upcycle Challenge
Art Impressions Water Color Wonders Challenge
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Anything Goes Challenge
Card Mania Embossing Challenge
Penny Black and More Feature a Creature Challenge
Stamp Sensations Forest Friends Challenge
MFT Sketch 376 Card Challenge
A real fun Christmas creation, many thanks for joining in with our ‘Forest Friends’ theme at Stamping Sensations challenge.
B x
Thanks so much Brenda!
I have to say, that image really is great! So much fun! It is beautifully colored! Great Christmas card! Thanks for sharing it with us at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends!
Sandy DT
Thanks so much Sandy! This stamp was such a hoot, I couldn’t wait till the holiday season to color it up! 🙂
Fun image and a fun card! Thanks for sharing with us at Stamping Sensations
Thanks so much Viv! This image cracks me up. 🙂
What a fun card, with that cute and funny image! Great design and loving your coloring!
Thanks so much for joining us this month at Penny Black and More challenge!
Ellie
“Ellibelle’s Creative Moments”
Thanks so very much Ellie! This image totally makes me smile. 🙂
A cute creation for our woodland friends theme at stamping sensations. Thanks for joining us this month and good luck!
Thanks so very much Sally! These dancing deer and Santa crack me up. 🙂
OMG!!! This is such a hoot!
Awww thanks Victoria! I love this stamp. It totally cracks me up.
Your card makes me laugh! It’s a delight. We’re happy you shared with us at 613 Avenue Create.
Awww thanks so much Sheila!
This image cracked me up! Nice coloring. Thanks for joining us this week at Word Art Wednesday.
Awww thanks so much Terri! I love this stamp set too! 🙂
Wow, what a fabulous Christmas card! Love this image. Thanks for sharing with us at Creatalicious Challenges, we hope you join us again soon. Meighan DT
Thanks oodles, Meighan!
A wonderful card!
Thank you soo much for taking part in our “anything goes with optional birthday” challenge over at Creatalicious & good luck in the draw.
Hope to see you again in our new challenge as well…
Hugs,
Melanie
(DT-Coordinator Creatalicious Challenges)
(DT Crafty Friends)
(DT The Sketchy Challenges)
(DT Stempel-Magie)
PS: Sorry for the late comment, life had been very busy these past weeks…
You are so sweet. Thanks so much Melanie!