Santa's Return to the North Pole

Hello!  Back to playing in the snow at the North Pole.  Created this scene with Hero Arts October kit using a dog sled, polar bear, and Santa flying in his sled.  The Mountain background was die cut and sponged with Distress Oxide ink and snow added with Marvy Snow Marker.  The shiny night sky  was made by accident when I spilled Metallic Blueberry Mist on my work desk.  I quickly grabbed some white CS to absorb the spill and now have shiny CS for several skies,  Foreground was made with torn Watercolor paper strips. Stamped the trees and sentiment and added the "Elf" house, sleigh,  sled and bear which were die cut.  Sign Post was fussy cut.  All coloring was done with Copics.  More snow added to trees with liquid pearls and to sky with Stardust Pen.  I imagine Santa is returning to his workshop since he is flying in that direction and the girl in the dog sled is headed there to welcome him home.

Challenges:
Allsorts Challenge: Week 439 Christmas Creatures.  My creatures include Polar Bear, Reindeer, and Dogs.
Sweet Stampin' Challenge: Theme is Bears.  My Polar Bear is on the way to Santa's Workshop. He was stamped with Black ink, die cut, and covered in fur made with Snow Marker.
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge: #357 Anything Christmas Goes
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra: October Anything Christmas Goes
Happy Little Stampers:  October Anything Goes with Dies
Mod Squad Challenge: Add Snow.  Used Snow Marker and Liquid Pearls for snow.

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

One More for Christmas Card Stash

Hello! No, I am not ready for snow .  This is just a card for Merry Monday Christmas challenge to use ski, skates or a sled on our card and you have to have some snow with this theme. I was playing with the cameo and cut out the sled with a Silhouette cut file.  I was planning to color and print and cut the sled out but that did not work out. I went to another plan and just cut the sled out of white CS with the Cameo and colored with Copics E15,R46, N4 and a silver metallic pen. I think this came out with a better look than my original plan.   I assembled the sled, added some pine boughs cut with an Impression Obsession Die , and a red ribbon bow.  I attached the sled to the card with foam tape to give some dimension. I stamped the Creative Vision sentiment with Versamark  on red CS and embossed with PSX Snowflake Embossing Tinsel which I also added to the pine cutouts. The card was assembled with GKD Red Velvet CS as the base layered with pattern papers from Crate Paper
Peppermint pad. The green paper has a distress look.

Note: I have had this PSX Tinsel "forever" and have no idea why I have it or where it came from. It has a lot of sparkle ....shows better IRL.

8-10-14 Added Note: Received Honorable Mention at Merry Monday

Challenges in addition to Merry Monday:
Simon Wednesday Challenge:  Simon says make it sparkle.
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas  Challenge Extra:  Anything Christmas
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge:  Use pattern paper on entire card

Thanks to my friend, Rita, for the IO die.
I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa