Beach Santa!

You are probably wondering why I have done a christmas card in the middle of the year? well the challenges for this card all had a similar theme (with the exception of the sketch!) - summer, beach and sunny days - and since down here in the Southern hemisphere in Australia it is winter and in our summer we have our christmas. So I had this stamp image of santa at the beach for ages and since my confidence in 'colouring in' is growing I decided I would have a go at this summer theme with a christmas angle.

I even mucked around with the frames in my photo editting program!

I have made this card following one of the sketches from Top Tip Tuesday, the beach scene is the challenge from Totally Papercrafts, Paper playtime challenge theme is Summer (hence the christmas card in our summer!) and Party Time Tuesdays challenge is blue skies and sunny days.
materials - Bazzill white, red devil, whirlpool cardstock; Echo Park 'everybody loves christmas' papers and element stickers; Beach santa stamp unknown, Lawn Fawn 'swimsuit season', Hero Arts 'be happy' stamps; Stazon jet black, Versa Color sky blue inks; Marvy pens - blender 0, orche 13, pale orange 16, dark brown 18, leaf green 48, peacock green 58, cherry 65, yellow 69, sky blue 75, persimmon 89, tombow grey N75; MFT flat bottom clouds die.

Thanks for looking.