Monday, March 7, 2016

Monochromatic Card with Vintage Santa

I haven't made as many Christmas cards as usual this time of year. But here's one more, featuring a vintage Santa that I made using a Tim Holtz stamp.

I used brown ink and cut the image with an oval Spellbinders die. I used a rectangle frame die, also from Spellbinders, and placed it onto a distressed panel of off white paper.

I've used one single 6*6 sheet of Maja Design paper, both back and front, distressed the edges and added a narrow lace border.

The snowflakes are die cut (I used two die cuts for each snowflake) and decorated with pearls. I also added one single layer one from a stamped musicla notes paper, it's in the upper right corner but it's hard to spot.

The sentiment is in Norwegian, I cut it from white fun foam that I inked using old paper DI.


This card is for these challenges:
52 Christmas Card Throwdown - March Sketch
Winter Wonderland - Use Some Lace
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - Vintage or anything goes
Ett Trykk - Trykkpressa mars - Monokromatisk kort

33 comments:

  1. Wow! That Vintage Santa is really stunning Pia!! I love your monochromatic color and wonderful texture with the snow!! HUGS

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  2. Stunning Pia...love the mono colours and gorgeous stamp..a fabulous design too..

    luv CHRISSYxx

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  3. woooww vintage Santa
    coooooll I never seen this
    and this is really you
    Black and white and adorable sentiment too...
    wooow you cut the sentiment from White foam coool I never did that
    it looks so thick cool Pia I love it
    again I always love your black and white card my friend
    hugs
    Monika

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  4. Oh Pia, your Santa face is so fabulous, love the brown ink it gives the design a nice vintage effect.

    Hugs Diane

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  5. Stunning vintage Santa card! I love the way you layered the image with that great circular die.

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  6. A fabulous Christmas card Pia, such a wonderful vintage image.
    Pauline
    x

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  7. I think that make a monochromatic card is a very difficult thing, but you have made it so well! This card have a gorgous vintage look and in my opinion it seems perfect for a male. I zoomed it and I seen a lot of details! The snowflake with the scrap of musical paper is very pretty and love the distressed edges and the pretty lace!

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  8. A very beautiful vintage Christmas card Pia! Love the sepia tones and all your fabulous details such as the snowflakes and lace, lovely! Xx

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  9. Stunning Pia! Love the vintage Santa and the monochromatic theme!

    Brenda

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  10. Super classy card. Pia. The vintage theme compliments the monochrome scheme. Love it!
    x Asha

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  11. This is gorgeous and Victorian! Love your color choices. Pearls = perfect accent.

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  12. Wow this is stunning Pia! I love the image and pretty snowflakes and the sentiment looks fantastic too!

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  13. Fabulous and frosty feel Pia.
    Laine
    xx

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  14. A wonderful vintage Christmas card Pia. Love this monochrome colour scheme that you have created. You mentioned on my blog post (thanks for your lovely comment by the way), that you struggle with colouring black. I use Promarkers Cool Grey 5 and Cool Grey 5 for creating my black:) Michelle x

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  15. Wonderful vintage design Pia the brown is much softer than a black would have been, lovely card

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  16. LOVE it, Pia ! Amazing vintage Card !

    Imke~ My Crafty Place

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  17. Pia, I love the Vintage look! Fabulous!
    Regina*

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  18. Beautiful Christmas card Pia and what a fabulous vintage Santa, awesome monochromatic colors!
    Tammy x

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  19. This is really lovely take on the sketch! Love it! :)
    Thanks for sharing it at 52CCT :) Kaja

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  20. Absolutely Stunning!!!
    Have a blessed day,
    Migdalia
    Crafting With Creative M

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  21. Jeg blir helt imponert over at du lager julekort i mars! Dette er nydelig. Likte spesielt godt den snøkrystallen du har stemplet noter på. Lekkert!

    Tusen takk for at du er med på marsutfordringen til Ett Trykk/ Trykkpressa! Lykke til fra Cathrine -DT

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  22. This vintage Santa is wonderful! Great job with the sketch.
    Thanks for joining us at 52 CCT
    Julie T

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  23. magnifique Pia, le tampon est superbe et l'ensemble est très original et réussi, merci de jouer avec nous chez 52CCT, biz

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  24. A FABulous design.. I LOve your stamp and colours Pia.
    Another Christmas card to your stash.
    Chrissyxx

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  25. I LOVE this Pia.. It is so beautiful and vintage looking..Loz

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  26. Wow Pia..this is stunning. I have this stamp but never thought of making a mono card with it...I LOVE what you've created. Thanks for playing along with us at Winter Wonderland. Pat K x

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  27. I've definitely fallen behind with my Christmas cards this month. You're doing great! I like the monochrome look on this one, very vintage looking. The sentiment die-cut is gorgeous!

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  28. Fabulous monocromatic vintage santa card. I totally not in a mood for Christmas cards, I know I should, lol;-))m

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  29. Gorgeous card.....just love your sweet vintage Santa, just amazing!

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  30. I love this image and the whole feel of your card. Beautiful.

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  31. Beautiful monochrome card and fabulous Vintage Santa image
    Carol x

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  32. Oh. Love the way you used this stamp. It is perfect in this monochromatic colour scheme. Great Christmas card for some-one special.

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