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!
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