Dear Santa (Christmas in July)

Hey Stampers!  Welcome to another challenge sponsored by Southern Girls. This image is from Oddball Art and when I first saw her, I knew I had to have this image. I know a couple of ladies who think of Halloween as their Christmas so I thought this was perfect for this challenge. The actual challenge is “a little bit dark”. I am not sure that I stayed inside the challenge but I love how my card turned out so that works right.

My image is called Sandra the Christmas Witch.  So at first I wasn’t sure if I wanted to color her Christmas or Halloween.  So I went to the site for inspiration and the card on the site did her in Christmas but with a little Halloween. I loved it so that is what I did.

So I colored the images with my Copics and here is what I used

Dress and hats R27,R29
Band on Witches Hat YR06, R02
Tree, holly, and stripes G07, G14
Hair and the familiar Y11, Y13, Y15, Y17 Boots C0 and C1, Broomstick and antlers E57,Broom YR24 and YR27. 

For the tiny lights I used my Yellow Bird Glitter Drops from Nuvo.  For the skull and the trim on her dress and the hats I used C00 and C0.  As a finishing touch on Sandra, I took my glossy accents to make her lenses look more like real glasses.

I printed the image on some white 110 pound card stock.  I didn't want to fussy cut the image because of all the little details.  So I decided to try and make her look like she was glowing.  So I used my Twisted Citron Distress Oxide ink first being careful not to get ink on the colored images.  Then I covered it with the Splash from Hero Art which is one of the new reactive inks.  I left just a little bit of the Twisted Citron showing which gives her the glow I was looking to achieve.  For a sentiment I wrote "Dear Santa"... will a EK Success Journaling pen and on the inside of the card I wrote "I Tried" cause she is witch after all.

I used Christmas papers from my stash but to make sure they didn't clash, I covered them with the same inks that I used to create my background on the main image card. 

So this is my project for today.  I hope you enjoyed it and will play along with us for this challenge.  Hop over to the blog to check out the other design team inspiration. 

Thanks for stopping by,

Come and create something with me,

Andi