I am so in love with the super versatile “Ugly Sweater Weather” stamp set from Maymay Made It!<\/a><\/span> 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!<\/p>\n

<\/a>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\u00a0“Ugly Sweater Weather” stamp set<\/a><\/span> 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:<\/p>\n

Red: R24, 27 and 29
\nBlue background: B000, 00, 02
\nTeal stripes: BG32 and 23
\nDeer head and antlers: E31 and W1<\/p>\n

For the second sweater, I used the super cute penguin from the Joy Clair “Christmas Penguins”<\/a><\/span> 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:
\nR27, YR15, Y08, G08, B06, V17 and N1, 3, 5, 7 and 9<\/p>\n

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For the third sweater, I stamped out the itty bitty penguin from the\u00a0Joy Clair “Christmas Penguins”<\/a><\/span> 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:\u00a0Hats: R27 and 29; Belt and belt buckle: N7 and YR16; Penguin beaks: YR15<\/p>\n

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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 <\/a>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.<\/p>\n

For the inside sentiments, I used the “Don we now our ugly sweater” and the “Get Your Tacky On!” from the\u00a0“Ugly Sweater Weather” stamp set<\/a><\/span> for two of the cards. For the third card, I combined the “sweater weather” sentiment from the\u00a0“Ugly Sweater Weather” stamp set<\/a><\/span> with some of the text from a Hero Arts Merry Stamp & Cut set to make the inside sentiment say, “wishing you merry sweater weather”!<\/p>\n

The following is a process video sharing how I made these sweater designs:<\/p>\n