The Jolly old Elf returns, but new

Continuing the samples for the upcoming release, Santa makes an appearance in one of the new sets “Santa is coming to town’. If you’ve just joined me, I’m gearing up for a release of 3 new stamp sets plus new stencils on Wednesday night next. I know a lot of my US friends have other things on their minds right now, but alas, I had this release all prepped and set up from well before last weeks events and unfortunately my small business just doesn’t have the resources to shelve the release for now, and so I must motor on even though a lot of my friends aren’t feeling so crafty right now. Hugs to you.

The Jolly old elf from the original WMS set makes a return. This time he’s showing off the Christmas tree, and putting up wreaths, right after checking his list! He’s the same character, but he is different to the old WMS set so if you won’t be repeating stamps if you already had the old set.

In this card Santa proudly displays the tree he has decorated just for you. The retro style tree lends itself to a load of decoration possibilities – time to get out your embellishments, old school deco is back. The elf himself is the same character as the Jolly old Elf WMS set, but he appears in this set in a different pose, and the pose is all important, you’ll see why later. The pose is perfect for showing off trees, or hanging wreaths, among other things. This Santa stamp is a solid stamp, here I inked him up in red ink and then went in with a black marker and blackened his boots, belt and gloves. I added a little shading with a standard HB writing pencil to give him a little dimension.

I created some Christmas stencils for this release also, featured in this card is the peppermint swirl stencil which makes a suitably retro background, here stencilled in red and hot pink. Fun!

Also in the set is an outline Santa, for folks who like to colour in, I inked him here for this card in a pale grey ink which disappeared nicely behind my copic marker colouring. I used the peppermint swirl stencil again because it’s such fun to use and it nicely highlights anything you want to pop in the centre of the swirl. I cut out the figure and the word ‘Santa’ with my silhouette cameo and the cut files for these will be free with the stamps.

The wreath stamp, also from the ‘Santa is coming to town’ set is one of my favourites, I really love the retro feel of the tree and wreath, they are so versatile. You can decorate the wreaths as well. Min decoration stamps are provided in the set, but it’s great fun to use up my long neglected embellishments, such as these sticky pearls, which I coloured with copic markers. As before Santa is stamped in red and I used a pen to scribble some black onto his boots and belt. The red panel is the central shape left over from when I cut out the frames for yesterdays cards, scroll back to see. I have heaps more to show you, call back tomorrow for more samples! Ta for popping in today!