Have I told you too many times how much I LOVE the Maymay Made It Ugly Sweater Weather stamp set<\/a><\/span>?! I love it so much that I decided to make a little two sided Christmas ornament of my two pups, Biscuit (a Miniature Poodle) and Bandito (a Havanese) using the sweater from the\u00a0Maymay Made It Ugly Sweater Weather stamp set<\/a><\/span> and the poodle and what is probably a terrier (but I colored it up like my Bandito) from the Avery Elle More Furry Friends stamp set. I stamped out the pups on one sweater and then I stamped out the poodle and just the outline of the terrier on another sweater so that I could <\/a>make this second sweater the back side of the sweater. However, because the left and right side of the sweater is not exactly the same, I had to do a lot of cutting apart and re-assembling together to make the front and back sweaters fit together without a lot of mismatched areas.<\/p>\n

So for my second try, I decided to stamp out the sweater and then scan it into my computer and reverse the image (simple how-to with Microsoft Word is included in the video below). Now I knew I could sandwich the back sides of the 2 sweaters together and they would fit perfectly! I fussy cut out the reverse image sweaters and inked the edges for a clean look with a Tuxedo Black Momento Marker. For this second ugly sweater, I used one of the disgruntled kitties from Katzelkraft Cats<\/a><\/span> and stamped the front of it on one sweater and just the outline of it on the second sweater (easy how-to alter stamp by wiping away details for backsides – this is in the video below too).<\/p>\n

<\/a>For this kitty sweater, I used the following Copic colors:
\nKitty: E00, 02, 11, 97 and 99 with YG17 eyes and Distress Marker eye flecks in Mowed Lawn
\nSweater: YG01, YG03, YG17, and 0 colorless blender<\/p>\n

Then I used a bit of hand dyed seam binding to create a hanging loop through a 1\/8″ hole punched through the top of the sweater neck and a bit of tangerine colored embroidery thread to tie on a couple of jingle bells on a bow. To give this kitty a reason to be disgruntled, I decided to add an antler headband to him. I punched out a set of antlers from an EK Success antler head and cut around the antler pieces to fit around the front of the kitty. I repeated the punch out to add the fuller antlers to the back side of the kitty, and hand fussy cut out a little red scrap of paper to give the look of a simple headband. To add a bit of shine and finish off this funny ornament, I topped all the antlers with Glossy Accents.<\/p>\n

The following is a start-to-finish process video of how to create this grumpy kitty front and back ornament:<\/p>\n