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Another Bugaboo image from my latest digi stash acquisition.  I kept the rest of the card simple. I think it works. (?)

A nice change to make a non-Christmas card :-)

Gingerbread man

A couple of weeks ago I won a few Bugaboo images from the Sweet Sketch Wednesday challenge.  I couldn't resist printing 6 of the 7 off immediately (would have printed off all 7 but they wouldn't have fit on the paper in one go!).  Thought I would use this gingerbread man one for a card to enter into the current Sweet Sketch Wednesday challenge.

I seem to have a bad habit of using the 'wrong' colours (or pink for male images like this and vice versa).  I guess I just don't like gender stereotyping! (a good excuse at any rate ;-))

 

Something a bit different

Mum asked me to do a scrapbook for a special family friend who is 60 in January.  The only problem is that I don't have any photos, so I suggested we make it a joint project- I would do the arty stuff and she could do the photos.  I have been playing around with mixed media lately and decided to decorate the pages like I would prepare an art journal page.  I have done about half of the scrapbook and now it is in Mum's hands to do some of her side of the project!
Since gesso-ing and painting gets a bit messy I have only used one side of the pages and stuck alternate ones together, back to back.  I punched a shape out of the top and made this into a little pocket with another sheet of paper inside (hence all the ribbon loops you can see).
First double page (credit card gesso and acrylic background, stencilling in white, paint splats and stamping):

 More of the same, with a different colour scheme:

 And more again.... (also added spray of fireworks mica ink to each of the pages for shimmer)

 Went for baby wipe application of paint and gesso on this one:

 Actually a double page spread but only shown half:  This is a simple gesso background, spray and stamping:

 I played around on this background and melted oil pastels!  Next stamping with acrylic paint and finally with black Stazon.

 Put my water colours to the test here (gesso primer and then stamped in StazOn before colouring):

 Acrylics applied with a brush in spirals with stencilling, spraying and stamping on top:

 Same again, but this time striped rather than spirals for the first layer:

 Back to the credit card method:

 Tried to accentuate the texture on this by stamping with my wood effect stamp:

 And finally just lots of stamping and a few paints splats on a gesso-ed background:

 

Teenie Reindeer II

This time I used two images from the DigiStamp Boutique teenie reindeer set.  I know they are probably more male (Rudolf for instance), but somehow this card ended up very pink!  The layout is from the current Mojo Monday challenge.

 

Bert again!

Another card featuring the DigiStamp Boutique Bert character.  This time I have followed the current RetroSketches layout.

PS. did you see my card was chosen as a rock star for challenge 187?  I was very chuffed :-) 

Christmas Bert

I didn't have much of a play with this DigiStamp Boutique Christmas set last year and so thought I would print it off again.  This is the first 'Bert' card I made.  It follows the current Sketch Saturday layout.

 

Teenie Reindeer I

I made a little card for this little fellow.  The image is from DigiStamp Boutique and the card follows this weeks Sketch Saturday layout.

Lots of glitter ;-) 

A pressie for youuuu!

A found this DigiStamp Boutique image on my hard drive the other day and printed him off. Seem to be making quite a few Christmas cards at the moment!

 

Pengiun garland

Using the second image in the DigiStamp Boutique Christmas garland set I made this card.

Like last night's version, this card also follows the current Sweet Sketch Wednesday layout.

Santa garland

I have been looking through my digis and falling in love with some (a lot) of the images for a second time.  Not sure I made many cards last year with the DigiStamp Boutique Christmas garland duo set and so printed it off again. This is the first card, using the Santa version of the image.  I have used the current Sweet Sketch Wednesday layout on this card.