
It’s a new week which means it’s time for a new Merry Monday challenge! Christmas is rapidly approaching so it’s really time to knuckle down and finish up those cards. This week’s challenge is being hosted by Deanne who is asking for Santa hat’s on our cards. I decided to use the hats as the only image on my card, creating my own patterned paper with them.

I started by stamping the Christmas hat from Lawn Fawn’s Hats of to You set repeatedly onto a piece of watercolour paper. I used MFT Black Licorice Hybrid ink as it is safe for watercolour techniques. I then chose a red from the Gansai Tambi watercolours (number 30 – Cadmium Red) and used it to paint my hats. I didn’t bother with having a particular lightsource, instead painting the hats so that they were all darkest on the side near the fold. I didn’t add any colour to the trims or bobbles on the hats.
Once the hats were all painted and dried I trimmed the panel down to be just smaller than my card base. I then trimmed some green mirror card to fit my card base, and gutted the middle of it in order to conserve it.
I measured the sentiment I wanted to use, then trimmed another piece of the same watercolour paper to the right size for my sentiment panel. I used the same paper so that the white areas would be consistent in shade throughout the card. I then placed it in my MISTI and stamped it using a stamp set from Happy Little Stampers called Everyday Sentiments, which I believe is now retired. I stamped the large “Merry” using Altenew Ruby Red ink and the rest of the sentiment with the black MFT ink I had used for the hats. I trimmed the sentiment panel slightly to make sure the sentiment looked evenly sentiment, then created a coordinating mat (again gutted) from the green mirror card.
I used my glue pen to adhere each of the panels to their mats, then used double-sided tape to attach everything to the card base.

I really like this card! It’s fun but not too complex. The painting took a little while but it was nice and relaxing because I didn’t really need to put too much thought into it. And the mirror card adds a little something extra whilst bringing in the traditional green to accompany the red.
Love,
Lady Joyful
Challenges included:
CAS Colours & Sketches – Sketch/Layout (edit – where it was a weekly winner!)
CAS Watercolour Challenge – Anything Goes
Merry Monday – Santa Hat
Muse: ChristmasVisions – Anything Goes
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Charlotte (that’s me!)
What a darling background you created with the Santa hats, Charlotte – love it!
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Love all those cute Santa hats. Great job creating that background.
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Such a fun and festive card. Love the shimmer of the green with the classic red and white combo. Lovely use of the sketch and thanks for joining in at CC&S this week. Hugs Bev x
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Charlotte. What a darling card… I love all of the Santa hats and amazing background. Have a great week.
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Charlotte, this is so adorable with your background of Santa hats. Have a great week.
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Love the movement created by turning the hat! Thanks for joining us at MCV, Charlotte!
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Darling card, thanks for playing along at CC&S.
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Love your cute card. Those Santa hats are adorable and the bold sentiment is perfect for our sketch this week at CC&S! Thanks for sharing your card in our gallery.
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Wonderful card! Love the do-it-yourself paper – and great coloring! Thanks for playing along with us at CC&S!
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Adorable card, Charlotte! Great watercolouring of those sweet Santa hats. Thanks for sharing with us at CAS Watercolour!
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What a fun and festive card, absolutely perfect for the holiday season! Thanks so much for making CC&S part of your crafting time!
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love the background paper you made with the sweet Santa hats.and great watercolouring. thanks for joining us at CAS Watercolour
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This is so fun and pretty, Charlotte! Love the Santa hats background and the shiny green mirror card edges!
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Awesome background Charlotte love all the Santa hats great Christmas card.
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Cute, cute card Charlotte…LOVE all the hats! Hope you’ve been having a great week! :0)
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So cute how you added the Santa hats as your background layer!
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Wonderful card, I love this technique.
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What fun Santa hats, Charlotte! Thanks for sharing with us at CAS Watercolour!
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I’m super late this week, but I wanted to stop by and let you know how cute your card is. Your watercolor hats are darling.
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This is super cute Charlotte!!!
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