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A last-minute Hump Day Hello to y'all! To explain my blog post title, I'm sharing a card that was directly inspired by 2 challenges that I went and missed the deadline for for one of them! I HATE when that happens, but especially these two because I like to participate every challenge if I can, darnit. Oh well -- see Title above -- Live and Learn! I just need to prioritize them both next time, lol. And, at least I can still participate in one of them! {Happy Dance!}

Even though you cannot see him on the front, my 6x6 Christmas card is all about him. It's an homage to Santa, as complies with the Jingle Belles latest challenge Santa Baby. Perusing my Christmas papers, I ran across this 7Gypsies' Santa's Journey sheet and knew I wanted to pair it with the super cute vintage-y Stampers Anonymous stamped image T'was the Night Before... .

  

And I used this Outlawz Wednesday Sketch that is no longer current because I stayed too long out at Taco Tuesday and got home 10 minutes after the deadline. Still, I do not regret that because Honey and I were able to visit with friends we had not seen in a long while. And it's a great sketch that I will add to the challenge anyway. I did not follow it religiously but loosely instead. I wanted to keep as much of the paper showing as I could so my 3 vertical strips are much skinnier and closer together, and I used a doily for the circle element because my stamped image is a rectangle. Even though "Coming to a Roof Top Near You" is where the ribbon should go, I added some velvet ric-rac right below those words.

 It was very hard impossible to photograph just how much the snow on the stamp image sparkles and glistens. After stamping with VersaFine Clair Fallen Leaves ink and letting it dry well, I colored the outer frame with colored pencils, then got tired of that and went with ProMarkers to color the image itself. Tried some shades of yellowish-pink on the moon and I like how that came out. I used my Sakura glitter gel pen on the moon rays and all the roof and word snow, and it's so so so sparkly in real life. Like ice-y snow.

Here is the back of my card. This is another sheet from the 7Gypsies paper pad, an entire collage that I cut just a bit to fit on the card base. All I added was my punched out Impression Obsession siggie stamp with my CTMH Art by Aimeslee custom stamp stamped on top of that, in Acorn VersaFine Clair ink.

Here is the inside of my card and there is Santa! I stamped a Pink Persimmon image and large sentiment with VersaFine Clair Fallen Leaves ink. The bottom smaller sentiment is Papertrey Ink.

I hope you liked my card. I will leave you with a few close-ups of the glittery snow and a final view before listing my challenges:

CHALLENGES:
1.  Outlawz Wednesday Sketch for May 29-June 11 - (sketch shown above)
2.  Jingle Belles JB:19:12 Santa Baby
3.  Winter Wonderland June Challenge: Use Red & Green
4.  Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge: May Anything Christmas Goes  - did not play the non-traditional option
5. CCAYR June Challenge: Christmas Flowers/Leaves/Garlands - I have some leaves and berries on my stamped image around the word NIGHT.
6.  CHNCC #441: ACG + Opt. Winter Fun - I am playing the option because I heard Santa has so much fun on Christmas Eve. ;-) 
7.  Outlawz Festive Friday Challenge for May 31-June 13: Christmas Theme
8.  I Love ProMarkers Challenge #386: More Than One Layer - I have colored my stamped image with ProMarkers and I have layers.
9.  The Three Muses Challenge: Fly Me To The Moon - I have a big old moon on my stamped image, plus that sleigh is rumored to fly on Christmas eve! ;-)
10.  LTSCB #122: AG + Opt. No Rulz 3
11.  Use Your Stuff # 362: Vintage
12.  Catch the Bug June Theme Challenge: Fairy Tale/Fantasy - the Santa Claus character and customs is a secular holiday fairy tale/fantasy
13.  Colour Crazy Challenge Wk 22: AG with Colouring - I used colored pencils and ProMarkers to color my stamped image.
14.  CHNPPC June AG with Patterned Papers
15.  Cutie Pie Challenge #136: Ribbons and Bows - Velvet ric-rac ribbon: check, cute image: check.

Thank you for visiting me. I appreciate it! Have an artful day! xoxox