Ugly Sweaters!!!

It’s Wednesday, and this week, I made a Christmas card using Ugly Sweater Time - SLF025 by High Hopes Rubber Stamps for the main image and Ugly Sweater Time - FFL025 (High Hopes Rubber Stamps) for the sentiment. I have a few ugly Christmas sweaters, that I love wearing at Christmas time. How many do you have? LOL!

To make my card this week, I began with a card base of Hammermill - Premium Colour 100 lb. cardstock, cut and scored to be 5.5" x 4.25". I cut the main background paper from Hot Buy - Recollections - Jewel Tones to be the same size and applied this directly to the base card using double-sided tape. Your Next Stamp - Winter Knits patterns were cut to the size of a little over .5" each x 4.25" and applied to the top and bottom of the card using double-sided tape. My Cuttlebug and My Creative Time -Stitched Squares Inside and Out were used to die cut PhotoPlay - Tulla & Norbert's Christmas Party paper to the size of 4" x 4". Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Evergreen Bough was applied around the edges and double-sided tape was used to adhere it to the base card. The large oval was die cut using my Cuttlebug, Hero Arts - Infinity Die Ovals and Hot Buy - Recollections - Jewel Tones paper. This was popped up onto the square using U-Line double-sided tape.

With my MISTI and Memento - Tuxedo Black ink, I stamped both the image and the sentiment onto Copic Marker X-Press It Blending Card. The image was die-cut using my Cuttlebug and Hero Arts - Infinity Die Ovals. I coloured the image in with Copic markers. The sentiment was die cut with Whimsy Stamps - Quick Strips Die Set and Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Evergreen Bough was used to ink around the edges. The coloured image and sentiment were both popped up onto the card using U-Line double-sided tape to finish it off.

Card Recipe:

Stamp: Ugly Sweater Time - SLF025 (High Hopes Rubber Stamps)

Sentiment: Ugly Sweater Time - FFL025 (High Hopes Rubber Stamps)

Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Evergreen Bough

Paper: Copic Marker X-Press It Blending Card, Hammermill - Premium Colour 100 lb., PhotoPlay - Tulla & Norbert's Christmas Party (6" x 6"), Your Next Stamp - Winter Knits (6" x 6"), Hot Buy - Recollections - Jewel Tones

Die Cut: Hero Arts - Infinity Die Ovals, My Creative Time -Stitched Squares Inside and Out, Whimsy Stamps - Quick Strips Die Set - WSD330

Tools: MISTI - Most Incredible Stamping Tool, U-Line double-sided tape

Image coloured with Copic Markers:

Skin: E21, E11, E00, E000

Beard: B60, C1, C0, C00

Hat and Clothing: BG72, BG57, BG32, BG11, Y17, Y15, Y13, R59, R37, R35

Shoes: C8, C6, C4, C2, C1, C0

Sweater: E53, E51, E50, E35, E34, E33, E31, G07, G05, G03, Y17, Y15, Y13, R59, R37, R35, R02, YG03, B16, B14, B12

Knitting Needles: YG03, G07

Shadow: N2, N1, N0, BG000

Hope you like it and have a fantastic week!

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