Here Comes Santa Christmas card tutorial

Hello crafters, I hope you’re all well! I’m on the Christmas Card making wagon now. We’re in the home stretch! Kate has looooads of Christmas Designs in store, both uncoloured and coloured. I opted to colour mine as I wanted a bit of colouring therapy. However, pre-coloured stamps are a perfect option for your batch making which is always welcome this time of year, right?!

Here’s one I made earlier…. 😉

handmade Father Christmas greetings cards

First, I printed my Santa image from Cookies for Santa Digital Stamp pack. I used Word to edit my Digi stamp. I sized to fit a UK A6 card front and printed onto 210gsm white Super Smooth card. 210gsm is a gentle weight for a home printer and Super Smooth is essential for colouring.

I coloured Santa using Copic Markers in the following colours:

Reds: R17, R29, R59
Whites: W00, W0, W3
Blacks: N1, N3, N5, N6, N8
Santa’s Sack: E27, E25, E35, E77
Santa’s Skin: E000, E02, E51

I fussy cut Santa out, then added some small white highlight details using my Gel pen.

Wherever there’s a Santa, there’s a golden belt buckle, right?! I coloured Santa’s buckle in using a gold gel pen.

Now I created my card base. I prepared a white UK A6 top fold card blank. I cut down a piece of White card in the exact dimensions of the card front. I popped this in my Snowflake embossing folder and ran it through my die cutting/embossing machine. I then adhered this to my card front using wet adhesive.

I added some foam squares to the back of Santa and adhered this to my card front.

To finish, I added a pre-made sentiment from my stash. I added foam to the left end where there was space between the sentiment and the card and where it sat level over Santa’s hat, I applied wet adhesive. Using both methods of adhesion kept the sentiment flush with the main image.

This is the card complete!