Penny's Paper crafty challenge. Anything Goes using paper. Challenge #586

 Did you know that in the early 20th century, Coca Cola ran an advertising campaign featuring a Santa Claus in a red suit.  It was wildly popular.  Until then, Santa's clothes were all sorts of different colors.  Thanks Coca Cola for the red suited elf!  My project features a Santa Claus in a different color.  But first here are the sponsors.

The Paper Shelter

  

Polkadoodles

All I can say is WOW.  These two are some of the very first sponsors I worked with starting in 2013.  Fell in love with both their images and love the way they can be used.  Go over gang and please send love and a big thank you!!

My image for this challenge is from The Paper Shelter and is called Here is Santa!  Here is my card.

Here he is in all his purple splender.  The base is hot pink followed
by some sky blue and finally some purple snowflask digital
paper.  I die cut the Merry Christmas out of Mauve shimmer
paper.  Santa himself is colored with my Prismacolor
Pencils.  

Here you can see the purple snowflake paper better.  The Happy
Holidays is cut out of mauve shimmer stock.  The envelope is
dark purple.  I just love the little fuzz balls!

Here is the back and my official initial.

I have been thinking about re-designing my blogs for the new year.  The Rhapsody On Paper blog has had a facelift a couple of years ago.  But Be Happy hasn't.  We'll see.  

Thank you so much for visiting.  Remember from my heart to yours,

Stay Healthy, Stay Safe and know you are blessed.

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge #585. Anything with paper!

 Have you ever wondered why Santa is always in red and white?  I decided to find out.  Here are the results. 

Santa Claus's iconic red and white outfit is largely thanks to American culture and the Coca-Cola Company!

The modern image of Santa as a jolly, bearded man in a red suit with white fur trim was popularized in the 19th century. Thomas Nast, a political cartoonist, created many of the early illustrations of Santa Claus for Harper's Weekly in the late 1800s. However, it was Haddon Sundblom's Coca-Cola advertisements starting in the 1930s that really solidified this image. Sundblom's Santa was depicted as a cheerful, plump man in a red suit with white trim, which matched Coca-Cola's color scheme.

Before these influences, Santa Claus's attire varied in color, often depicted in green, blue, or brown. The red and white ensemble stuck in popular culture, and now it's hard to imagine Santa in anything else!  Ai helped with this answer.  

So lets see who the sponsors are for my un-santa like creation!

The Paper Shelter

Polkadoodles

Such a wonderful surprise.  Two heavy hitters in the digital stamps and supplies trade.  Love them both!  Please go show some love and say a thank you for a great year of sponsorship.

Here is my project.  I was selected to created with The Paper Shelter.  I chose Here is Santa.  Let's get started!

Card base is hot pink.  Mat is sky blue with a background of
purple snowflakes.  I colored Santa using my Castle Art Gold
oil based colored pencils.  I did NOT want to do a traditional
Santa.  I think I accomplished it!

Here is the inside.

Back of card.  The mailing envelope is royal purple.

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge only has one more challenge for 2024 on December 4th.  I do hope that you and yours have a very Happy Thanksgiving (usa).  I will see you in a fortnight for the last challenge of the year.  So from my heart to yours,

Stay Healthy, Stay Safe and know you are blessed!

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge #584 ATG

 Hello all! I have two very cute gnomes to show you today.  But, I have no idea what 'crackers' are.  Can someone help?  Oh well, let's see who our sponsors are.

Alex Syberia Designs

Sheepski Designs

Our sponsors for this challenge are wonderful.  Love working with both of them.  Please go give them some love and say a quick thank you!

My project is from Sheepski Designs and is called Crackers #253.  Here we go!

I colored the gnomes with my generic markers that i bought on 
Amazon.  Next I paper pieced the cracker.  I looked at pics
and I guess that there is a little surprise inside.  Cool!  The
card is hot pink card.  Next layer is from paper that I have had
since the start of this card making journey.   The final layer
is a piece of confetti paper to add a festive vibe.

I was gifted this printable paper from The Paper Shelter a few
holidays back.  It fit perfectly with my card layout.  The 
Merry Christmas is a metal die from amazon. 
 (can you tell I like Amazon?)

The back.

Well that is it for the challenge.  I will be back in a fortnight with another image.  So for now, stay safe, stay healthy and know you are blessed!