Friday, July 14, 2023

Even Gators Have to Shop!

      It's Friday and that means another challenge is starting at Crafty Catz, where our themes are always "Anything Goes" but we give you an OPTIONAL theme each time which you may use if you like.  This week, the theme is: Sparkle or Shine.  We don't have a sponsor this week so the DT were free to use whatever images they chose.  

     I decided on a Christmas Gator from QKR Stampede mostly because I wanted to add to my Christmas card stash but also because it's fun to use sparkly, shiny things on Christmas projects.  I went through my stash of Christmas scraps, pulled a few bits of dp which were long enough to make the striped background, and included in those a delightful green glitter paper.

     I added the sentiment before printing the image, colored it with ProMarkers and Copics, then cut it with a CUTplorations stitched die.  I found a bit of twine and tied a bow.  Pretty simple except for putting all the scraps together for the background but it looks far more complex than it is.


     Challenges:

     Come play with us this week, won't you?  It's Anything Goes and you can use the Sparkle or Shine if you choose but it's not required.  Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie

9 comments:

Chris said...

Such a fun image, beautiful colouring, love your pieced together stripy background papers and the bright cheerful colours.
xx

karin said...

Funny image on your card. Crocodile Rock 😀
Thanks for sharing at Carlin's Kaartenparadijs.
Karin DT

Sheryl said...

This is such a fun card and so beautifully coloured.
Thank you so much for entering our challenge this week at CRAFT Challenge, looking forward to see you again next challenge.
Hugs Sheryl xx CRAFT DT

Faith A at Daffodil Cards said...

Super fun card and colouring Connie. You are in the swing of things by the look of it.
Faith x

*Vicki* said...

The Santa gator is too cute with his backpack! Love the festive strips of papers for the background especially the tiny Santas! Really cute card NC!

carla said...

Wow this is a great image, I love It.
Nice colouring.
Thank you for joining us at carlin's kaartenparadijs challenge.
Good Luck !

Carla (DT)

Tone K. said...

Beautiful and funny card! :) Thanks a lot for joining us at Let`s Craft and Create :)

Brenda said...

I love the fun Santa Gator and the wonderful card you have designed for him. Thanks so much for joining us this week at CRAFT Challenge!

Samantha said...

I love the background made from scraps, it's really effective. Christmas Gator is super cute too! Thanks for joining the Star Stampz challenge.