Santa with Gift Stack

Happy Monday everyone! I'm playing along with Darnell's IDEAS program (see her inspiration post HERE). This week she's focusing on Die Cuts so I pulled out a new-to-me Waffle Flower gift stack. Here's my card:

Supplies: Paper - Neenah Classic Crest Solar White;

Betterpress Porcelain; various scraps; 

Stamps with Dies - ECD Santa Claus (dies HERE)

Dies - Waffle Flower Stacking Box;

A Jillian Vance Design Stitched Dot Rectangle Backdrop Set

 Betterpress Plate with Dies- Spellbinders 

Merry and Bright Sentiment Strips

Stencil - Waffle Flower Stacking Box

Other - Copic Markers; foam tape; gems

 

My local stamping store had the WF die set among the birthday crafts; I picked it up last month when the Divas had WF as a sponsor. Didn't get a chance to use it then but thought it would make a cute Christmas card. Perfect for the current Christmas Kickstart Challenge #87 where Jo & elf Denise have the theme of gifts. I die cut the single piece box stack, then paper pieced by cutting parts of it for the 3 boxes. Next I die cut the box lids and bows. Oh, and I stenciled on the top box using the coordinating WF stencil. 

Added some black snowflake paper to an A2 card. Die cut a rectangle from Christmas music paper and added to the card. Added the stack of gifts using foam tape. I searched the sentiment bin & found a Betterpress sentiment. Also found an extra ECD Santa head from previous cards & decided to add him peaking around the gifts. The head alone looked odd so I freehanded a body to tuck in there. Added some gems to the gifts - done!

Since my gift stack die set is newly used today, I'll also add my card to Darnell's June NBUS Challenge #63. And to Merry Little Christmas Challenge #56 where Anything Goes.

That's it for today. I have a lot of reviewing to do after the chorus coaching session this past weekend!

Thanks for stopping by & happy crafting!!