Totally Tropical... Christmas!

It's time for a challenge with a bit of a twist at Christmas at Sweet Stampin'.  Yes, as usual, we'd like to see a Christmas project but this one has a different spin on it - we'd like your design to be appropriate for those who are celebrating the festive season in sunnier climes than our own!

I'll be honest, it took me a while to decide what I was going to do and I ended up using 3 different Magnolia stamps to create this scene:

I stamped and masked the palm tree, then over stamped with the beach scene.  Try as I might, I couldn't get the little Santa and his sleigh stamp to sit in the right place, so I resorted to stamping this image and cutting it out so that I could put it exactly where it needed to be!

The whole thing was painted with DIs and I used a Sakura glitter pen to highlight the butterflies.  Unfortunately in this photo you can barely see the Merry Christmas sentiment, which was created using a Pebbles Inc. rub-on.

Hope you can join in the fun at CaSS this month.  We've got a fabby prize up for grabs - The Hobby House are giving away a £10 voucher for their store.  Now if that isn't a good reason to dig out those summer stamps, I don't know what is!

Hugs,

Tracey xx