Santa and Friends card...

Merry Little Christmas # 47

anything goes

I'm trying to participate in all of the November's challenges over at 52 CCT.   This week's theme is  Santa and Friends.   For the most part I don't have any Santa stamps except this CTMH set I bought years ago called Jolly Characters.  I suggest you don't look at the photo of this stamp set very long, I didn't get the images back on very well and I don't want anyone to have a seizure.   I bought it with the intention of making Christmas tags (which somehow I didn't get around too)...anyway my card is what I consider a "one and done."   It was very labor intensive not because it couldn't have been done quicker, but because it kind of evolved.   In the back of my mind I kept thinking Santa, Mrs. Clause and North Pole friends make an annual Christmas card in a digi program like so many do these days or what if  this same group along with other NP residents are putting on the first annual "Singing Christmas Tree," and this is the program cover...I would love all visitors to vote for your choice  Christmas Card or program Cover.  I stamped and cut the images with a small circle and colored them with pencils and attached to small gold Christmas light die cuts and tied each with gold metallic thread.   Making these bows was the hardest part...The tree is a digi from Etsy and reminded me of the Singing Tree look but the more I looked at it, it also looked like a Christmas card background where you add your photos and print professionally.   I printed the tree on a wood panel because I do picture "Santa's official residence" as rustic!    The bow is from Banners and Bows Collection on the tree is fussy cut from Jan's Digital Stamps.  The North Pole Friends include "Frosty,  Rudolph, and Squirrel (from Christmas Vacation--watching it each Christmas is a tradition for my family.)    Squirrel was stamped with the guy from Nuts about Squirrels  SU.  

  

        

Squirrel was a gift to me from my son because the squirrel scenes in Christmas Vacation always have me rolling in the floor.  If you look close you can see the left eye doesn't match the right eye (while I didn't actually see her performing surgery I'm pretty sure it was compliments of our sweet  "Sydney" who we sadly said goodbye to one week ago).  We had her in our lives for 13 1/2 years.   She was so sweet and loving and so easy to love!    Since squirrel was a gift from my thoughtful son and Sydney cared enough to perform intricate eye surgery on him--the squirrel is beyond precious he is priceless to me!

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to vote!  Smiles,  Kathy

I'm sharing at:

52 Christmas Card Throwdown

We Love Stamping   (new to me, I just saw my friend Maxine is a designer there)

Merry Little Christmas   #47   anything goes   

Just Us Girls  RED, GREEN, GOLD