Happy Holidays Santa Card

Hey!  It's the holiday season!  Time to make Christmas cards!  It's my favorite time of year. 

Today's card is my first of the season:

Materials:

• Graphic 45 Twas the Night before Christmas Collection
• Frantic Stamper Die Happy Holidays
• Red Grosgrain Ribbon
• White card stock for my card base (A2)
• Red Foil card stock

• I love Graphic 45 but sometimes have a hard time figuring out how to use the 12 x 12 papers, especially the ones with the large graphics on them.  This is what I used for my card today.
• I decided that I wanted the Santa design on the front of my card and I wanted it to cover the whole front. 
• I used glue stick and put glue over the front of my card.
• I laid it down carefully onto the back of the patterned paper (remembering which way the card opened!)
• I trimmed around my card.  It came out really well.
• There is another paper in the collection that uses the poem so I cut a strip to help decorate the front of my card. There is a coordinating strip on the inside of my card also.
• I cut the greeting from foiled card stock, used mounting tape and added it to the lower right corner.
• I added the bow and had longer streamers which I made waves with and secured with glue dots.

The card looks a lot more complicated than it really is.  It came out really well.

Stay tuned for more Christmas card designs!

Lis