Anything Christmas at Di's Digis... and I'm gutted!

The new challenge started over at Di's Digis Challenge Blog yesterday... and I didn't get a chance to publish my post; proving that I learned nothing last fortnight when I neglected to press "Publish" on my "not going to get caught out THIS time" scheduled post, ah well, all I can do is apologize to Di and the team for the delay; 'tis the season and all that.  

The reason I'm gutted is I've lost 3 Followers this week!! I don't know what I did to offend you guys, if you're reading this anyway - again all I can do is apologize.... "must  try harder"

Back to today's post... My "Anything Christmas" ended up being a card; I'm so short on Christmas cards some of my friends will be getting "bought" cards - those that love me will forgive me I'm sure :-)

The cuter than cute Santa cooking his steak and snags (sausages) on the barbie is just perfect for our Aussie Christmas... thanks Di for thinking of us Hot Christmas peeps :-))  He's called Barbeque Santa and you can get him here  I coloured the image with Copics and added lashings of gloss to the steak and sausages (that's one juicy steak, lol)

I followed the sketch from Bugaboo's Stella Says Sketch challenge, I've flipped it and the sentiment is not right down the bottom, but I did follow the sketch, honest :-))

I've used papers from Kaisercraft... the Christmas Carnival pad.  The curved panel at the top is cut from one of the sheets in the pad... it's great as it looks like I've spent ages cutting curved strips from different papers whereas I took about 30 seconds to follow one of the lines :-)  

The card base is green card, I added Spruce Stickles to the same card to make the mat for the image a bit more interesting.  You can see in this pic that I coloured Santa's boots with a combo of brown and Warm Greys... I like this better than just using Cool Greys as I think it looks more like leather, well it does to me, lol.

I added some Gold Stickles to the belt buckle and would normally add Ice Stickles to the fur trim... but I got distracted and forgot, lol.  Worked okay though.

I used the same layout for the inside of the card... it's how I roll, lol, adding red stickles to the red card for matting in place of the green as there was already enough green on the inside.  Another piece of the border print page at the top .. great value as I've still got enough for a card or two -from one piece of paper!

The twine is from my stash, well technically... I only bought it last week but it wasn't "bought for purpose" so "stash" and the snowflake is a wooden laser cut that I added some silver stickles to, and a red rhinestone to the centre.

The Ho Ho Ho are stickers... well they were ONE sticker that I cut into three bits :-)

That's it for today's card, I tend to keep my Christmas cards pretty simple, to be honest because I'm generally running out of time to get them all ready not because of some artistic "rule".

I'll be entering this card in the following challenges: 

Crafty Creations Happy Holidays

Gem of a Challenge Anything Christmas

The Crazy Challenge Christmas

Inky Chicks Merry Christmas

Sweet Stampin' Merry Christmas

Corrosive Challenge Merry Christmas

Card Mania Challenges Christmas

Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge Christmas

Jingle Belles Christmas

Hiding in my Craft Room Favourite HIMCR challenge (#228 Christmas Colours)

Pile It On Anything Christmas or Winter
OSAAT Anything Goes with the Colour Red

Sweet Stampin' Christmas Father Christmas

Little Miss Muffet Holiday Cheer

Without Words Feeling Festive

My Time to Craft Last Minute Makes

Creatalicious Challenges Something Old (paper) Something New (image)

Bunny Zoes Crafts Glitter/Sparkle

Sparkles Monthly Challenge Favourite Christmas Colours

As You Like It Favourite Christmas Colours and Why (I like "non traditional colours but I just can't use them... as soon as I see "Christmas" out comes "Red and Green", lol)

Craft Your Passion Anything Goes

Art by Miran Anything Goes

Polkadoodles Anything Goes

Tuesday Throwdown Anything Goes

Clear It Out Anything Goes

Through the Craftroom Door Anything Goes

The Paper Shelter Anything Goes

Li'l Patch of Crafty Friends Anything Goes

Crafty Hazlenuts Christmas Challenge Anything Christmas 

Crafty Hazlenut's Christmas Extra Challenge Anything Goes Christmas

Phew!!

Pop over to Di's Challenge Blog and check out the rest of the team's inspiration... worth the trip :-)   I hope you get a chance to enter the challenge too, great prize on offer as always - from the fabby Crafters Companion this time around - and (as always) if you use one of Di's gorgeous images, whether a Di's Digi or a Candibean rubber stamp you go into an extra draw for a further prize... with so many cute images to choose from why wouldn't you??

I'll try (though I have been trying, still lots going on here, more than just the Christmas thing) to get back in a few days and get the last of LAST year's Christmas cards blogged before the end of THIS year... maybe that's why  I dropped 3 Followers, I don't post often enough ?  Anyway, until then Happy Crafting, Donna