Penguin Garland

When I printed the 1st christmas babies last week I decided I may as well fill the entire sheet and this was one of the images I decided to include. Yet again its the first time I have printed and coloured this image and next year I am going to do all coloured images on my cards....ok wishful thinking lol.

Ingredients
Image: "Jolly Garlands" from Digistamp Boutique
Embossing folder - Snowflake from sizzix
paper: candy stripes from pink petticoat
Card: anna marie and "real red" from stampin up
Dies: Barrel nesting set from sizzix

Copics
Leaves - YG67, 17, 25, 03
Berries - R39, 37
Baubles - B26, 23, Y35, 32
Penguin - W9, 7, 5, YR68, Y38, Y15

Underneath the Mistletoe

I was looking through my old christmas cards for inspiration and I found this image and I knew straight away who I was going to use this for. The last few christmases I haven't been colouring images as much and I kind of miss it so this gave me the opportunity to do that again, I still think the majority of my cards won't be colouring but one now and again is fun to do.

Ingredients
Image: Digistamp Boutique
Paper: "candy stripes from Pink Petticoat
Embossing: from sizzix
Card: Anna Marie and "jellybean green" from MFT
Sentiment: "merry" from "merry christmas by Clearly besotted
Dies: Circle staxs from mft and scalloped circle from spellbinders, "wet paint:christmas" from paper trey Ink

Copics
Skin - E11, 00, 000
Boy Hair - E79, 59, 57
Girl Hair - E34, 31, 30
Green - YG67, 17, 25, 03
Red - R89, 39, 37
Grey - N9, 7, 5, 4, 3
Sky - BG11, 10

Two Little Robins

I have been meaning to try the free magazine stamps from last year for a while, I have the original rubber version of this but it is considerably larger and I wanted a smaller focal point to fit with the sketch.

It was lovely to colour and I think I might need to use the others that were free now too lol.

Ingredients
Image: Mulberry Wood free magazine set from 2014
Sentiment: "keep it simple: merry christmas" Papertrey Ink
Dies: blueprints 2, 13 and 15, circle staxs all MFT and crealies XXL stitched circles
Papers: "winter Wishes" Echo Park from Michelle
Card: "plum pudding" Papertrey Ink

Copics
Robins - E37, 35, 33, E09, R08, 14, YR16, Y35
Hat  - V17, 15, 12
Present - V17, 15, 12, B24, 21
Mistletoe - E53, 50, YG67, 63, 17
Holly - YG67, 17, 25, R39, 37
Background - BG11, 10
Branch - E77

Hood

This is the last of the age two cards for this year, so its only fitting that I used the last of the fairytale images for this one. I was a bit nervous to colour the red but it was a lot easier than I imagined, Ive been trying different red combos and I'm liking the results. 

I suppose I had better start looking at next years 3rd birthday cards, but I think I just want to chill a bit first lol.

Ingredients

Image: "hood" The greeting farn

Paper: "from the heart" Nit wit

Card: "real red" stamping up

Dies: blueprnts 12 and 14 and number die all MFT

Sentiment: "party animal' Avery Elle

copics

Skin - E000, 00, 21, 11, R02

Hair - E40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 47

Dress - E40, 41, YG93, 91

Cloak - R89, 39, 37, 35

Basket - E31, 34

Socks - N2, 1, 0

Shoes - T7, 5

Happy Birthday Mum

Today is my mums birthday, I'm not going to tell you how old she is though lol, but I did want to wish her a very happy birthday xxx

My mum likes large cards, this normally fills me with dread but not this year, I found this stamp in my stash I remembered why I bought it. My mum has always wanted an old English sheepdog, as a child I would watch the Dulux adverts with her and she would say how much she liked them. Now my mum does have a dog and she is a sheepdog cross but not an old english one and to be honest she is more sheep then dog but a gentler and more loveable dog you would struggle to find. She literally lights up when she sees you and her tail almost knocks you over.

Anyway enough about dogs onto the card, I have made an 8x8 easel card and I think this image would have overpowered any other size.

Please excuse my very poor photography skills this was a very difficult to photograph card.

Ingredients
Image: "annabel" Kanban
Paper: "coffee time" Nit Wit
Card: "kraft" recollections
Dies: "barrel" nested from sizzix
Ribbon: "kraft" from MFT
Punches: "eyelet" patp from Martha Stewart
Sentiment: "happy birthday" clearly besotted, "pool party" embossing powder from Stampin Up


Copics
Skin - E11, 000, 00
Hair - E34, 31, 30
Dress - BG15, 13, 11, E44, 43, 42, 40
Ground - W3, 1, 00
Cuddly dog - E47, 44, 43, 42, 40
Dog - R20, SK09, N2, 1, 0, blender

Floridian Flamingo Christmas Cards

I have made some fantastic friends over the years of going to Florida and most of these I have met at MFT (my favourite things) classes, I wasn't organised enough last year to send them cards but as soon as I saw this image I knew I would make them first this year.

There are four different flamingo's so I have included one of each of these in the examples below.

Ingredients
Image: "" Pink Petticoat
Papers: "cherry blossom" Candy stripes from Pink Petticoat
Card: "smoky slate" Stampin Up
Dies: stitched circle, blueprints 1 and 2 all mft and scalloped circles from spellbinders
Sentiment: "snow globe sentiments" paper trey ink, embossed with "blushing bride" from Stampin Up

Copics
Flamingo - R37, 35, 22, 21, 20, SK09
Accessories - N4, 3, 2, 1,

Poker Party

I haven't been colouring as much as normal and I think its because I don't use my digi stamps as much, I would always print an entire sheet and think about which ones I would need next etc, now I tend to grab a stamp or die and i'm done. Well I had to print the new job image recently so I decided to do an entire sheet and see what I had for upcoming birthdays, my I have a lot of digi stamps and I had no problem finding ones I wanted to use, of course if I had printed them all I would be sitting under a paper mountain lol.

I coloured the image and I like that it kind of matches the background although that wasn't my intention. I have also used the left over piece I made for the beer card, it was sitting on my desk and it seemed wrong to not just use it. I did turn the grid background so it somewhat mimics the card background and I must remember that my background stamps are far more versatile than I realise.

Ingredients
Image: "card sharks" Bird Brain at From the Heart Stamps
Sentiment: "year two" Lawn fawn and smoky slate embossing powder
Paper: Leftover from "who let the beer out card"
Card:"enchanted evening" Papertrey ink
Dies: Blueprints 15 and cross stitch rectangles all MFT
Background: "grid" mft

Copics
Birds - Y17, 15, 13, YR27, 24, 04
Grass - YG17, 23, 21
Sky - BG10, blender
Cards - B39, 37, 26, 24, R89, 39, 37, W5, 3, Y15, E00, T4, YR23