Christmas Hats

The last Sunday in the month means it’s the C-word.  Yes, it’s Christmas! The stamp set I’m using this week is Christmas Hats by Colorado Craft Company which features the cute drawings by Anita Jeram. 

To begin, I stamped the cat, masked it and then stamped the dog.  To colour, I used a technique demonstrated by Jennifer McGuire, in which the negative mask is used so that ink can be blended onto the image.

After colouring the dog, I then masked the hat fur and coloured the body of the hat red.

You can see that I forgot to protect the area at the edge of the mask when colouring the hat so had to cut out the image.  Since I’d overlapped the images, I had to partially die cut each image and then fussy-cut the bit in between.

The animals were masked and I also added a mask for the ground before white heat-embossing snowflakes (Avery Elle Snowflakes stamp) and blending Distress Oxides in Salty Ocean and Chipped Sapphire to the sky.

Somehow, I managed to get a big smudge around the sentiment so had to trim the bottom off.  Instead, I used the sentiment in the Christmas Hats set to repeat stamp around the mat layer before mounting on a 5” red card base.

The second card was finished by mounting the critters on foam tape on a background made by blending Distress Oxide Weathered Wood through Lawn Fawn Snowflake Background stencils.  The sentiment is from the Clearly Besotted Sing It’s Christmas set.

For a bit of sparkle, I did go in and add some Stickles glitter glue to the hats.  I was very pleased that I managed to salvage the focal images and make them into useable cards!  That's two more to add to the Christmas 2023 collection.