Striped Christmas - Jumpers

 Another day another set of striped cards, I think this might be my favourite set so far. Not sure why I didn’t think to do other colours of stripes but maybe soon lol.

Snow Globe Shaker Card Version 3

After making the snow globe cards with the Elf and Santa I decided to use the other stamps and see what they looked like. I learned a lot from the last set of cards and decided to add the snow globe front to the acetate and it definitely looks different. I also didn't add the sentiment plaque, this however was an oversight lol.

In our house we refer to this day as "christmas Adam" as Adam came before Eve lol.

Hope you are all ready, I am almost sorted, got the food and all the presents are packed so why am i stressing lol.

Ingredients
Image: Winter Plushies from Clearly Besotted (free with creative stamping magazine) and "ready set snow" from Lawn Fawn
Card: "red" recollections from Michaels
Dies: Blueprints 29 and 20 both from MFT , snow globe from Lawn Fawn
Background: Simon Says stamp falling snow stencil and cosmic shimmer glitter paste
Sequins: gens from Jillibean Soup and sparkling clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh

Harry with Beer

Along the same lines as the "snuggle bunnies" cards when I printed the standing "harry with beer" I also printed the frame version. I coloured them at the same time and made the same but different versions. This was the idea that kick started my mojo. I know that making this a regular thing won't work but I do know that it does help my creative juices start to flow. 

I do wish making multiples was a thing for me though as it would make this so much quicker to do, but then again if I wanted quick I could buy a card. 

Ingredients
Image: "harry with beer" Digistamp Boutique
Sentiment: "keep it simple - birthday 2" Papertrey ink
Paper: "cold avocado soup" Jillibean Soup
Dies: Blueprints 31 and slanted sentiment strips all from MFT

Copics
Skin - E000, 00, 11, 93
Hair - N4, 2,0
T-shirt - BG09, 07, 05
Background - BG11, 10
Frame - B39, 37
Beer - Y13, 35, G28, 16, 12


Challenges - Digistamp Boutique March Competition

Cheers from Digistamp Boutique

I have used this image and design before with different colour combos, its a prefect card for a guy who likes beer and one I will probably replicate again.

In case you are wondering my mojo is slowly returning and the idea wheels are starting to turn again but its such a slow process. I am not sure why my mojo goes into hiding but it does and frequently too, its so annoying when I have lots to make and maybe thats the reason......mmmm......I think I've hit the nail on the head, I need to be more organised.

Ingredients
Image: "harry with beer" Digistamp Boutique
Paper: "cold avocado soup" Jillibean Soup
Card: "midnight muse" (retired in colour) Stampin up
Dies: blueprints 31 and sentiment label strip all MFT
Sentiment: "adult beverages sayings" from Simon Says Stamp, "nightshift blue ink" from MFT


Copics
Skin - E000, 00, 11, 93
Hair - E59, 57, 35
T-Shirt - N4, 3, 2, 1, 0
Jeans - B99, 97, 95
Beer - Y13, 35, G28, 16, 14

Challenge - Digistamp Boutique February Contest

Sleepy Sloth

My BIL has a nickname and it happens to be sloth so I have wanted a sloth set for his card for a while. I was going to get the MFT one but when I saw this set from Clearly Besotted I knew it was perfect. I have used a card by Michelle as my inspiration and I like the clean, simple elegance of it.

Ingredients
Image: "Hang in there" Clearly Besotted
Sentiment: as above
Paper: "avocado soup" Jillibean Soup
Dies: "cross stitch" rectangle from MFT

Copics

Cake - R89, 39, E53, 50

Sloth - W8, 6, 4, 3, 2, 

Branch - E77, 74

There's a Nap for That

This image is just perfect for my cousins birthday, he has been a keen fisherman since he was little, personally I think he liked the peace and quiet lol. As this image is quite large I went with a simple design and let the image carry the card. 

Ingredients
Image: "Catching z's" Art Impressions
Sentiment: as above
Paper: "avocado soup" Jillibean Soup
Card: "jellybean" MFT
Dies: Blueprints 2 and 13, basic stitched edges 2 and square stax all MFT, crealies XXL stitched square

Copics

Skin - E15, 13, 11, 00

Grass - YG23, 25, 17, 67

Wadders - YG99, 97, 95

Hat and Jacket - BG09, 49, 05

Sky - BG11, 10

Chair - E35, 33, BG23

Hooray Panda

Sometimes bam you get an idea and the card almost makes itself, this happened here. I was trying to use "NBUS" or Never before used schtuff as coined by the lovely Darnell and had it all laid out on my desk and next thing I know a made card lol.

I know it should have been a shaker card but it looked more for a boy and i'm not sure they would like a card filled with sequins. Need to find something like sequin stars or similar.

Ingredients
Image: "spring short stack" Stampendous
Card: "navy" Limetree Crafts
Dies: "hooray shaker" from Clearly Besotted and Blueprints 15 from MFT
Paper: "avocado soup" Jellybean soup.

Creative Stamping Music No2 - Mixed Tapes

I just had to use this image from the magazine, it reminded me of my youth and the"mixed tapes" we gave our crushes and friends, yes my dear friends I grew up in the era of taping top of the pops on a sunday night, buying 12 inch discs for the pretty pictures and rats tails. For those of you not lucky enough to be a teenager in the eighties in the UK I will elaborate on the phenomenon that was rats tails, you let a small portion of your hair at the back be longer than the rest, your hair needed to be cropped to the neck otherwise it just looked like your hairdresser missed a bit lol. You cultivated the growth of said piece of hair and if you were able to you plaited it or put tiny little elastic bands in it. Mine grew to a fine length of over seven inches before it got the chop, I did miss it when it was gone but by then the next fad had appeared, although for the life of me I am at a loss to remember what it was, probably too traumatic to want to recall lol.

Anyway you didn't come here for an eighties history or her story lesson so on with the card, as you an probably see it was fairly easy, I matched the colours of the tapes to the papers, cut the paper to match the angle of the stripes and bish, bash, bosh its done.

Ingredients
Image and Sentiments: "creative stamper issue 31"
Paper: "cold avocado soup" Jellybean soup
Card: "blue canvas" Limetree Crafts
Dies: Blueprints 15 from MFT


Copics
Yellow - Y17, 15, 13
Blue - B39, 37, 34
Green - YG97, 95, 93, 01
Grey/Black - N9, 7, 5, 4, 2

Football Crazy

I wanted to join in with Kay's sketch challenge and I needed a card quickly so this image which is simple to colour was perfect. I didn't add a sentiment because I totally forgot lol.

Ingredients
Image: "football crazy" Just Inklined
Paper: "cold avocado soup" Jillibean Soup
Card: "nightshift blue" MFT
Dies: zig zag square, square stax and horizontal stripes all MFT and crealies XXL stitched square

Copics
Ball - N7, 5, 4, 2, blender
Grass - YG67, 17, 23
Sky - BG11, 10
Boots - T5, 4, 2, 0, Y38, 15, B39, 37

HB2U Licence Plate

This card was made with offcuts and leftovers and came together rather quickly, I was clearing my desk and decided to use the stuff on it before putting it away, this worked really well and I had loads of ideas of course it didn't help clean the desk lol.

Ingredients
Image: Licence plate stamps and dies from MFT, stamped in "gumdrop green" and "nightshift blue" both MFT
Paper: "cold avocado soup" Jillibean Soup
Card: Cream linen from stash, "nightshift blue" from MFT
Dies: Blueprints 2 and 13
Stamps: "chevron" background from Heidi Swapp

Wellington Bear

I'm not sure where I got this idea but it kind of evolved a life of its own, the only thing I realised is that I wanted to create a panelled floor and I don't have the stamp I thought I did so its on my wish list for my next Florida trip. 

Its not easy to see in the picture but I even debossed a line on the skirting board, irl this shows up and makes it look real. The picture frame was a last minute thought and turned out better than I hoped, this card even has a bit of doodling lol.

It was a fun card to create and might just mean I make more scene cards in the future, you got to start small right lol.

Ingredients
Image: "wellington" by Papermania
Paper: "cold avocado soup" Jillibean Soup
Card: "nightshift blue" MFT and "dark chocolate" Papertrey Ink
Sentiment: "geometric" Clearly Besotted stamped in "nightshift blue"
Dies: rectangle staxs and blueprints 1, 2 and 18
Background stamp: "houndstooth" from MFT

Copics
Bear - E49, 47, 44, 43, 42, 41, 40
Chair - E79, 77, 74, 71, E35, 34, 31, YG97
Cushion - YG97, 95, 93, B99
Present - YG97, 95, 93, B97, 95, 93
Envelopes - Y35, 32, W0, 00