Vintage Framed Santa

Hi Everyone,
Changing things up a bit today.  I have a Christmas project to share.  I made a Vintage Framed Santa piece.  I will either put this up in my house or I may give it as a gift.  HMMM.  Who would like this?  I will have to think about this.  I used a plain frame I bought somewhere and jazzed it up a bit with paints, glimmer sprays,and glitter glue.

Here is a photo of the frame before alteration.  It is just a plain frame.    

For the "picture" inside the frame, I used a Santa Stamp from the newly released set: An Illustrated Christmas from Blockhead Stamps.  This is the whole set.

Materials List:

Santa Stamp from An Illustrated Christmas

Canvas Paper

Vintage Photo Distress Ink

Distress Tool

Cream Pigment Ink

Brown Embossing Powder

Acrylic Paints: Tan and Brown

Paint Brushes

Sand Paper

Satin and Sheer Ribbon

Glitter Glue

Glimmer Sprays

Smooch Spray

Paint the frame with Tan Acrylic paint.  Set with a heat gun or let dry.  Go over the Tan paint with Brown paint.  Set with a heat gun or let dry.  Sand off most of the Brown Paint to look aged.  Get it nice and scratchy looking.  Add lots of gold glimmer spray and Smooch Spray.  Let this dry.  And then add the Glitter Glue the the edges.  While the glitter glue is drying, make the Santa Picture.  

To make the Santa picture, stamp Santa on canvas paper with Vintage Photo ink and heat emboss with brown embossing powder.  Cover the paper with Vintage Photo ink using a distress tool.  Add a little white pigment ink to the hat with a Q-Tip and smudge it in with your finger. (Very technical, LOL)   Add some random dots of the glitter glue in the background.   Let dry.  When the glitter glue is dry, add the picture to the frame.  To make the bow, I layered a satin and a sheer ribbon.  Hold them together and tie in a bow and leave long tails - Do Not trim the ends yet.    Glue the bow to the frame.  Lay the satin ends flat (Satin ends should be under the sheer ribbon ends) and secure with some glue on their underside.  Trim the satin ribbon ends to about 4 inches.  Now, to gather the sheer ribbon, place a small line of glue on the right side of the satin ribbon on its top edge.  Gather the sheer ribbon and press it into the line of glue.  Trim the sheer ribbon ends.   Here is a close up of the ribbon.  Isn't that a fun ribbon treatment?!!  I love it.  

We have really got the Holiday feeling going on over on the Blockheads blog this weekend.  Stacie has a dazzling dimensional ornament using Spellbinders and Blockheads Stamps.  And Leigh continues to amaze us with her Halloween treats!

Now, I feel in the mood for a few fun challenges too.

I am entering Vintage Framed Santa in the following Challenges:

Fashionable Stampers: Colors- coffee to cream

Simon Says Stamp and Show: use one color- I used different shades of brown

Mark's Finest: Make an Altered image that has been showcased in their 12 days of Christmas- Altered frame

ABC Christmas: V is for Vintage

Okay, Phewww.  Lots of info.   I have been working like a busy bee all week and have tons of stuff to show you in the upcoming weeks.  I still have all the Operation Write Home Cards to show you too.  I will be back  with lots more fun.  Oh, and have a happy Friday!  Love ya.

Karen