Frame it in

Another of the holiday cards, pencils this time and a design I’ve not tried before, definitely one I will try again though as I really like the frame idea. I found some very old stamped images and that is what I took away with me, I have already been on another trip since I made this and again I coloured older images, it felt good to show the images some love.

 

Peaky Blinders

Robertos rascals sets just can’t be beaten, they are so cheeky they can’t help but make you smile. I can’t believe that I haven’t posted these cards on here, I just finished making these peoples cards for 2022 and realised I hadn’t shown 2021 lol.

I went with a tried and tested design and I love the way they turned out. What made me realise I hadn’t shown them was seeing the top card in my friends office when I popped round, I was surprised that he had kept it let alone have it on display. I am struggling with crafting at the moment and that did make me think that maybe it’s not just about making me happy, if it brings a smile to someone else’s lips then it’s worth it. 

Snowboys

Cc designs is discontinuing their digi stamps this month and as they are 50% off I had to buy a few, of course that’s not unusual however using them this soon certainly is lol.

I printed all three of the snowboys set and also the winter snowman as it went so well with the others. I had some backgrounds left over so I decided to use them up and this is the result. 

The sentiment is from issue 100 of creative stamping magazine and it’s so perfect I have used it a lot.

Follow the Yellow Brick Road

I was so going to channel my inner Amy Young and colour a background with the yellow brick road but I am just not ready for that yet so I went with the clearly besotted brush strokes and the mft brick stencil and hopefully you can see that its supposed to be a representation of the yellow brick road lol.

Flapper Girls

Sometimes you see a stamp set and it speaks to you, calls to you in fact and keeps calling until you buy it and use it. Now normally when I get a set of stamps they sit unused for a bit but not this time, I used them straight away and I even used all the images and most of the sentiments.

I have even experimented with a cheap set of oil pencils on one of the images ( the pencils were a bargain at under £20 for 160)

I made all the backgrounds using black card and white card coloured with galaxy gold dewdrop from memento and I was still on my stripes kick lol.

Ingredients

Images and Sentiments: 20's Gals by Roberto Rascals at CC Designs

Die: Blueprints 29 from MFT

Super Twila Reveal Wheel

Well thats an unimaginative blogpost title isn't it, but it is exactly that card that I created. I am all out of witty titles at the moment so I thought why not state the obvious lol.

I have wanted to make another reveal wheel card for a while now and this design popped into my head and I couldn't sleep until I made it.

I started by covering the background in oxides and then when I went to darken the sky I realised I don't have the darker colours in oxides so I used normal distress inks. I could have ordered the oxides but I was too impatient to wait for them to arrive lol.

The girl is on an action wobbler as well so it is a fully interactive card, I might change it a little for the other 6 year olds as those cards are posted lol.

Ingredients
Image: "super twila" Robertos Rascals from CC Designs
Sentiment: "reveal wheel" sentiments from Lawn Fawn
Dies: Reveal Wheel from lawn fawn, city scape from MFT and Clearly Besotted
Card: black and grey all recollections from Michaels
Oxides: Wilted violet, faded jeans
Distress Inks - Black soot and chipped sapphire

Copics
Skin - E11, 00, 000, 93
Red - R89, 39, 37, 35
Black - T8, 6, 4
Hair - E34, 31, 30

Rockabilly Girls

This post was supposed to be scheduled for October but for some strange reason it didn't post and as the cards are cute I thought it should get seen.

There are four images in this set of Digistamps from CC Designs and I printed and coloured all four but only three have made it onto cards so far. The fourth was already to go but I dropped my inked on the background so that one will have to wait.

I have used the same layout on each one, very basic but I think it works.

Ingredients
Image: "rockabilly girls" Roberto's Rascals at CC Designs
Sentiment: "party animal" Avery Elle
Dies: "say it" Clearly Besotted and "a2 stitched rectangle" from MFT
Stencil: "brick wall" from MFT
Ink: "hickory smoke" and 'black soot" Distress Oxides
Card: "dark charcoal" from recollections at Michaels

Copics
Skin - E04, 11, 00, 000, 93
Shoes - N9, 7, 5
Jeans - B99, 97, 95
Red - R89, 39, 37, 35
Pink - RV17, 14, 13, 11
Brunette - E79, 77, 74, 49
Blonde - E35, 34, 33, 31, 30

Happy New Year and Happy Birthday Kay

Today is my good friend Kay's birthday and as she loves spiders I had an idea of the card I wanted to make. I watched an Amy Rysavy video where she used Studio Katia products to create a web shaker card and I knew straight away what I wanted to create, however there are no studio katia suppliers in the UK and the postage and customs would be astronomical so I thought how can I recreate without those specific items. This was how back at the start of my card making journey I would make stuff, I never had the correct/exact item so I would improvise and I enjoyed it so I thought revisit that period and see what happens.

Of course I had no spider web dies but I knew someone who did and I asked if I could cut it, I used black glitter card for the web and normal black card for the background and my initial idea was to use the one as a stencil but that went out of the window when I saw how thin the lines were.

It doesn't look anything like Amy's but I think it works and I am oddly pleased with it.

Last things to do is wish Kay a very happy birthday x

Ingredients
Image: "creepy Crawlies" Robertos Rascals from CC designs
Dies: Sizzix Spider Web
Card: "glitter pad" from the Works and "cranberry" from Michaels
Sequins: "sparkling clear" and "charcoal" from pretty pink posh, 'red" dollar tree and "silver stars" Studio Katia

Rockabilly Girls Version 2

When I coloured the previous versions of the rockabilly girls I also coloured this one. My original idea as to make all four cards the same but I dropped my black ink pad on the fourth background and when I went to make it again I had a brainwave to use this stencil and softer colours. I'm pleased I did as this works better than the wall with this particular image.

Ingredients
Image: "rockabilly girls" Roberto's Rascals at CC Designs
Sentiment: Creative Stamping
Dies:  "a2 stitched rectangle" from MFT
Stencil: "Prismacope" from TCW, The Crafters Workshop
Ink: "worn lipstick" and "spun sugar"" Distress Oxides
Card: "dark charcoal" from recollections at Michaels and "hibiscus burst" from Papertry Ink

Copics
Skin - E04, 11, 00, 000, 93
Shoes - N9, 7, 5
Pink - RV17, 14, 13, 11
Brunette - E79, 77, 74, 49

Roberto's Rascals Reindeer

I am sorry about the light on this photo, I wish it had captured the simplicity and brightness better. I was pleased with the concept and colouring on this card but the hair could have been better.

I am a bit like Kelly Latevola in that I hate starting a card over and will do anything to avoid this but in this case I did colour the image a few times, I just couldn't decide on a hair colour that didn't melt into the costume, I tried red, black, and dark brown before deciding to go blond/moussey.

Ingredients
Image: "3 reindeer" Roberto's Rascals from CC Designs
Sentiment: "boozy santa" Wild Rose Studio
Dies: Blueprints 27 from MFT
Ink: "broken china" Distress oxide

Copics
Skin -
Reindeer Costume - E81, 84, E29, 27, 25, 23, 21, T8, 6, 5, R29, 24,

Roberto's rascals Snowmen

After using Roberto's Rascals images on the elf cards I couldn't resist buying the "snowman kids" and "3 Reindeers" in the Black Friday sale and even better they are Digital so I got to download and colour straight away.

Ingredients
Image: "snowman kids" Roberto's Rascals from CC Designs
Sentiment: "boozy santa" Wild Rose Studio
Dies: Blueprints 27 from MFT
Ink: "broken china" Distress oxide

Copics
Skin - E11, 00, 000, 71, 93
Hair - E59, 57, 35
Hat - T8, 6, 5, YG97, 95, R39, 37, T3
Suit - B00, 000, T8, 6, R39, 37

Copics
Skin - E11, 00, 000, 71, 93
Hair - E34, 31, 30
Hat - T8, 6, 5, YG97, 95, R39, 37, T3
Suit - B00, 000, T8, 6, R39, 37

Ugly Jumper

I must say this everytime I make a card but I can't believe I've not used this stamp before. It was an absolute joy to colour and was part of the November 30 day colouring challenge. I have been much better during this challenge at making the coloured images into cards. I have been trying to turn them into cards once a week, this does mean that the card style is almost identical and you might be thinking this is very similar to the two snow globes from earlier in the week and of course you would be right lol.

Ingredients
Image : "ugly sweater" Robertos rascals from CC Designs
Sentiment : "Ugly sweater" Simon Says Stamp, stamped in "wild cherry" MFT ink
Embossing Folder: "cable knit" Papermania
Card: "sour apple" MFT
Dies: Blueprints 1 and 29
Dots: Doodlebug

Copics
Skin - E11, 00, 000
Hair - E79, 77, 74
Trousers - N6, 5, 4
Boots - N8, 7, 6, R39, 37
Sweater - YG67, 17, 03, R89, 39, 37, 35