Eat, Drink and Be Tacky

Sunday night everyone else headed to bed so I closed the door to my craft room and started to work on cards. I've accumulated some images these last few weeks due to playing along with the The Daily Marker 30 Day coloring challenge and I used one of those images on this card.

The Paper Players has a sketch this week and when I saw it I immediately thought of the ugly Christmas sweaters I colored the other day. I picked one of them out and created my card around it. It's a bit different from most of the Christmas cards I make but it's going to be perfect for a special someone on my Christmas card list!

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Ugly Sweater, Sweater Words an Appliques (Simon Says Stamp)

Paper: Real Red (SU), Basic Black (SU), Neenah Solar White, American Crafts Pattern Patter from Target

Ink: Real Red, Memento Tuxedo Black

Copics: G07, YG09

R27, R46. 

R59

N2

Accessories: Cuttlebug, MFT Blueprints 15 and 27, MFT Zig Zag Stitch Rectangles, 2 3/8 SU Oval Punch, Red Gemstones, dimensionals

 

Don Your Ugly Sweater!

It's been a bit since I have blogged but I am finally done with turning our back bedroom into my craft room and so I sat down on Thursday to create my first card in my new creative space!

I decided to play along with the Jingle Belles challenge, as it's been a while since I was able to join them. They have a great sketch for the challenge and we all know sketches are my favorite thing to play along with!

I used the MFT Comfy Sweater Die to create my card. I was originally going to use the bigger sweater on my card but the smaller sweater worked better for this sketch after I cut them out and arranged them around. You can see I altered the placement of the circle and rectangle panel just a tad to make my elements fit on there. There is also NO coloring on this card, which is pretty rare for me!

Make sure you head over to the Jingle Belles blog to play along with them!

A few pics of my new space. The window is being replaced in a few weeks and so I'll hang up the fabulous plaid valance I got when that is done, it matches my wall color beautifully.......

My sweet diabetic kitty Bismarck. We got him some stairs to climb up onto my desk and he loves looking out the window!

Stamps: Cozy Greetings, Snowfall Background (both MFT)

Paper: Cherry Cobbler (SU), Chocolate Chip (SU), Neenah Solar White, AC Patterned Paper-Merrymint

Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Versamark

Accessories: Cuttlebug, Zig Zag Stitch Circle (MFT), Die-namics Blueprints 15, 23 and 30 (MFT), dimensionals