Warm Woolly Wishes

Good Monday morning to you :)

I'm thinking of warm, cosy winter hats and gloves today and I've teamed up an old and new stamp set from Wplus9 for my seasonal birthday card.... these sets are a perfect pair together :)

The Holiday Cheer stamp set is a great set and not just for Christmas.... I've used the outline images of the hat and mitts on textured card and used one of the small patterns from Background Builders: Knit to add a pattern to them. I've used the same set to add a pattern to my card base and I love how the texture of the card adds to the knitted effect :)

I used Silver Fox and Winter pigment inks for a lovely cool colour palette on both the background and the garments. To add colour to the rib and bobble, I selectively inked the matching solid stamp then I used a coloured pencil for extra shading.

I mounted them onto a double stitched rectangle, the smallest I could go so as not to cover too much of the knitted background, and added a simple sentiment from Avery Elle's Let it Snow. The HUGS tag is made using Lil'inkers All About Ampersand

    

  

All this talk of winter mitts and hats but actually it's rather unseasonally mild at the moment... I'm sure I've usually had my gloves on by now for our daily dog walk!! Still I'm not complaining :)

Thanks for stopping by

Jenny x

Throwback Thursday

Hello! 

Are you starting to speed up into Christmas card production? I am! Autumn and Winter are just my absolute fave seasons ever<3 So with that firmly in mind,here is today's card,inspired by the wealth of 'ugly sweaters' that are bombarding the high street shops of late ;-D

I used Wplus9 Background Builders:Knit as my base (it is such an easy set to 'interlock') then inlaid a Lawn Fawn Stitched Snowflakes die cut,making sure to keep the tiny little sweater pieces to pop back into the snowflake. The sentiment is made using Avery Elle Fun with Letters,which is out of stock right now,but any chunkier font will be perfect for this (check out some of the Lawn Fawn ones)

I hope this inspires you....not to go buy one of those sweaters but to explore your inner ugly sweater via the medium of card making ;-D

Til next week,have a great weekend!

Lou x