I am so in love with the super versatile “Ugly Sweater Weather” stamp set from Maymay Made It! Playing with it reminded me of my childhood playing with paper dolls and their clothes. It was so fun mixing and matching patterns and images to create anything I could dream up!
I stamped out the outline sweater stamp 3 times and was able to create 3 distinct sweater designs by combining this stamp with others. For the first sweater, I stamped out the deer head from the “Ugly Sweater Weather” stamp set and added even more “ugly” patterns from the stamp set to make the sweater super busy. I did take care to mask off the ribbed areas so that I didn’t over-stamp them with the snowflake and checkerboard patterns. Then I colored it up with the following Copic colors, adding a fun boucle texture to the background:
Red: R24, 27 and 29
Blue background: B000, 00, 02
Teal stripes: BG32 and 23
Deer head and antlers: E31 and W1
For the second sweater, I used the super cute penguin from the Joy Clair “Christmas Penguins” stamp set and stamped it onto the sweater as if it was peering into the body of the sweater from the lower right. I kept it simple and colored up all the holiday lights in the following rainbow of colors and the sweater in neutral grays:
R27, YR15, Y08, G08, B06, V17 and N1, 3, 5, 7 and 9
For the third sweater, I stamped out the itty bitty penguin from the Joy Clair “Christmas Penguins” stamp set over and over in a helter skelter random pattern. Again, I took care to do a little masking around the edges of the sweater and the cuffs and neck areas so that the penguins would not over-stamp the ribbing of the sweater or go off the edge of the sweater body and also simultaneously stamp over the arm areas. Again this Copic coloring was super simple; since the images were small, I could almost skip the shading on them and could focus on just coloring up the background for the nubby sweater texture: Hats: R27 and 29; Belt and belt buckle: N7 and YR16; Penguin beaks: YR15
After prepping all the sweaters, I fussy cut them out and inked the white cut edges with a Tsukineko Tuxedo Black Marker. Then it was a matter of using up scrap papers from my scrap box and adding some interesting, but not too distracting horizontal, top-folding card bases. I started with a background card front with rounded edges and added a strip of a different colored or patterned (and sometimes glittered) paper along the left side. To add some textural interest, I used the two embossing folders from the We R Memory Keepers Next Level Quilted Set (I thought the idea of quilting would go nicely with the sweater theme) for some of the plain papers as well.
For the inside sentiments, I used the “Don we now our ugly sweater” and the “Get Your Tacky On!” from the “Ugly Sweater Weather” stamp set for two of the cards. For the third card, I combined the “sweater weather” sentiment from the “Ugly Sweater Weather” stamp set with some of the text from a Hero Arts Merry Stamp & Cut set to make the inside sentiment say, “wishing you merry sweater weather”!
The following is a process video sharing how I made these sweater designs:
These cards are being entered into the following challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Add a Sentiment Challenge
Word Art Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Anything Goes Challenge
Creatalicious Anything Goes with Optional Glitter/Bling Challenge
Penny Black and More All Creatures Great and Small Challenge – small and large penguins
Crafts Galore Encore Anything Goes Challenge
Through the Craft Room Door Anything Goes Challenge
Fab ‘n’ Funky Anything Goes Challenge
MFT Sketch Challenge #346
Oh my gosh, these sweaters are so adorable. What great cards they make. Thanks for joining us at the Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenges for our latest challenge. {Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenges}Good luck and join us again soon. Hugs, Barbara
Thanks so very much Barbara!
These are such fun images and each one makes you smile, many thanks for joining us again at Penny Black and More challenge.
B x
awww thanks so much Brenda!
Lovely cards!
Thank you for sharing your creativity over at Penny Black and more Challenge;-))m
Thanks so very much Mervi! These were fun to design. 🙂
They are awesome ! love them all and as always fab colouring.
Many thanks for sharing with us at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge x
Thanks so much Tracy! These were super fun to design and color up!
What fun creations! Lovely and fun Christmas cards too! Thank you for sharing your clever creations with us this week at Fab ‘n’ Funky for our ‘Anything Goes’ challenge. So love what you did for it! Hugs, Wends xoxo Fab ‘n’ Funky DT
Thank you so very much Wends!
Sorry I am late with commenting …. Your cards are hilarious! I love all three of them and I appreciate you sharing it with us at Through the Craft Room Door for the week for 8-15.
Awww thanks so much Cara! These were fun to think up and color. 🙂
Oh wow these are brilliant! Love them!Thank-you for joining us at the Crafts Galore Encore Anything Goes Challenge.
Good luck
Lynda x
Awww thanks so much Lynda!
Very cute cards Kristina! I love how creative you’ve been with the different colours and textures,thanks for sharing.xx
Awww thanks so much Ann! These were fun to design and craft. 🙂
lovely cards and stamp thanks for sharing with Creatalicious Rachel DT
Thanks so much Rachel! I loved designing these ugly sweaters!
LOL….I love what you said….”so ugly they’re cute”….they are just adorable! 🙂 Hugs…Janie
Lovely Christmas cards!
Thank you soo much for taking part in our “anything goes with optional glitter/bling” challenge over at Creatalicious & good luck in the draw.
Hope to see you again in our new challenge as well…
Hugs,
Melanie
(DT-Coordinator Creatalicious Challenges)
(DT Crafty Friends)
(DT The Sketchy Challenges)
PS: Sorry for the late comment, life had been very busy during my 5-week-trip to Africa…