Fat & Jolly

The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers have cooked up another winner with N is for Naughty Christmas:

I might have an impressive collection of Christmas irreverence, so I hope to play this one a few times. :)

Here's the first card I made:

I've used a few more inches of my Santa washi tape, and an old, wood-mounted sentiment from River City Rubber Works. I thought of this stamp as I sent off 5 lbs of Buckeyes to a friend in Alabama.

I'm having a particularly irreverent day, so another card may be in the offing. :)

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Some of the stuff I used: Fat & Jolly from River City Rubber Works, MME Sweater Weather 6x6 paper, and the following:

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CSSC #10 Mid-Challenge Reminder

We're about mid-way through my CSSC #10 sketch challenge, so I went into the craft room today to make another card.

Let me just say "it seemed like a good idea at the time". You see, I caved and bought a roll of washi tape (I KNOW, right?) ... Sigh, here's the card, then I'll explain:

And yes, it follows the sketch, which I turned on its ear:

This all started with a roll of Santa's Belt washi tape. I thought (innocently enough) that it would make for an easy card. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Three hours later ... just kidding - it was only about an hour and a half ... I had a card.

What took so long? Well, just because I found the SSS Schoolhouse Red to be an almost perfect match for the washi tape, so what? I had a red rectangle with a piece of washi tape on it. Big whoop.

I used a piece of plaid paper from my ancient Basic Grey Jovial 6x6 pad for the horizontal element. Then, when I placed the red rectangle over it to the left, it practically filled the card. I didn't want to cut it down too much, as I liked that there were two gold grommets/holes on either side of the buckle. Plus, Santa isn't skinny.

Also, I wanted to use HO, HO, HO as the sentiment, so I dissected (trisected?) a stamp to get just one HO, stamped it thrice with Memento Luxe black ink, and clear-embossed it. Then I cut them out with a circle die and layered them on black circles for contrast. Not only did the Santa fill the left side of the card, those circles filled the right side.

I accepted defeat and made a 5x7 card.

I did trim down the Santa a bit, but I kept the two-grommets-per-side on the belt. Santa's coat looked nekkid, so I found an old 1/4" punch and punched some black card stock for buttons.

I tried and tried to get all three of those HO circles to work on the right side, but it was just too much, even on the 5x7 base. I opted to stamp the HO twice on the card base, and used only one circle HO. (Go ahead, have some fun at my expense. I can take it.)

I added the merry Christmas from a Lawn Fawn set.

For my last act, I added red pearls to the snowflake centers, then covered the buttons with Glossy Accents and set the card aside to dry.

Not able to leave well-enough alone, I made a second card using the same orientation of the sketch:

This card happened because I had a stamped kitteh out on my desk, and a strip of a Gelli print, so all I needed was a sentiment. I opted to use my now-opened Dylusions word set.

I added the "ha ha ha" using an old MFT alphabet set to help elongate the image on the left side.

About that sentiment. I think it's a hoot, but I had to change the comma into a semi-colon, and {shudder} till should be 'til (short for until), but I couldn't figure out how to fix it. Next time I'll mask off the second l. It's spelled properly on the packaging. Sigh.

And yes, it pretty much follows the sketch:

So, there are 10 days left to play. LOTS of time!  The link-up is on the original post; you have until 11:55 pm EST on the 21st to enter.

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Some of the stuff I used: Basic Grey Jovial 6x6 paper pad, Little B washi tape, 1/4" circle punch, SU black card stock, Neenah linen card stock (off-white/cream), Copics (0, C1, C3, C5, RV11), vat of clear embossing powder, Doodlebug Red, White & Blue pearls assortment, MFT Mini Banner Alphabet, and the following:

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I Pick You

I wanted to use my MFT Harvest Mouse set again, and I thought I'd try using the current MFT Wednesday sketch challenge:

I futzed with my die-cut pieces and the layout for a while, and I ended up turning it on its ear:

I was also working from memory, so the layout might be a little bit off. Here's my card:

I wanted to use this guy and the basket of apples, to make it look like he'd selected a special apple from the basket. I also decided I was tired of coloring, so I paper-pieced his sweater. Doing that made me also paper piece his tiny paw so it wasn't green.

The white rectangle was a UFO next to my die-cut machine, and I thought it worked well to off-set the image from the busy background paper.

To anchor the sentiment, I used a teeny tiny Hero Arts button from a package I found while re-arranging things on my shelves. I love it when I can actually use stuff I've had forever. The sticker on this package of buttons is from a LSS (an LSS?) that no longer exists, so they're maybe eight years old? *so proud*

Oh, and in case you can't tell, that skinny strip of washi tape stands in as the banner element in the sketch. I just didn't feel I could put it over the circle in my version.

Now that I look at this, I like that the pattern in the green paper looks like a cable-knit sweater. :)

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Some of the stuff I used: SU 2-way glue pen, washi tape, Copics (0, W0, W1, W3, RV11, R22, R24, R29, E71, E74, E35, E41, E53), Hero Art Tiny buttons.

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