Use Red at Sweet Stampin'

 Happy Saturday!  The realisation that in 7 weeks it will be Christmas Day has hit me this morning.  I've done little to no crafting since I moved house 3 months ago so once again my colleagues at work will be getting cards courtesy of John Lewis or M&S.  Hopefully I'll be able to get a couple more cards made for family and besties over the next weekend or two. 

As luck would have it our new challenge at Sweet Stampin' is a lovely colour one which is perfect for Christmas - Use Red. I sometimes have to challenge myself not to use red when I'm colouring Christmas images, so this theme suited me down to the ground.

For the background I used a much-loved stamp from Wplus9 with Speckled Egg Distress Oxide ink.  I loaded up the ink quite thickly hoping that I would just have to stamp it once. At first I thought I'd have to re-do it as it gave a very uneven finish, but as it dried the ink started to look like a frosty window pane.  I do like a crafty happy accident!

I coloured my MFT skater girl with Copics using R32, R35, R37 and R39.  I wanted to keep the palette quite limited, so I went for red all over her clothes and added some detail with a white Posca pen.  A bit of silver glitter pen on the blades of her skates and I was done.

I hope you can join our challenge this fortnight over at Sweet Stampin'.  You'll find lovely inspiration projects from my Team Susan teamies over at the blog here.

Have a fabulous weekend and if the weather with you is anything like it is here, stay cosy!

xxxx

A little something non-Christmassy

Hello!

Thought I'd stop by to share a little birthday card to make a change from the Christmas production line.

I'm so sad that I missed out on the Simon Says Stamp/Wplus 9 collaboration stamp set for this year's Stamptember.  It looks like it sold out in record time.  Wplus 9 make the most fabulous layering stamps so I decided to dig out an older set that I haven't used for some time.

I used the Freehand Florals to stamp and die cut the flowers and made a simple arrangement on the front of a white panel cut from a Papertrey ink set.  Once this had been matted onto blue cardstock I stamped the sentiment (by Altenew) and mounted the panels onto a white card base.  A few sequins completed the design.  This was surprisingly quick to put together so I made another one!

Does anyone else like revisiting stamps you haven't used for a while?

Thanks for stopping by.

Tracey x