2014 Year in Review cards

Happy New Year and welcome to 2015!  I've seen several stamping blogs that do a "year in review" sort of thing and thought I'd give it a try.  It's hard to pick my own favourites, so I had some help from Danabella!  It was fun to go back and review what I made throughout the year.

JANUARY brings us Mimi - love her fun glasses!

FEBRUARY brings us one of those crazy Senioritas!  I adore how this one turned out!

 

MARCH I started to play around with stencils and fell in love!  This card using a Gorjuss girl was also perfect to practice my hair colouring.

APRIL brought lots of birthdays and these Uptown Girls know how to celebrate!
 

MAY brings us sunshine and spring flowers and I loved this butterfly card - virtually no stamping but I loved the finished result!

 

JUNE brought me right out of my comfort zone with this card challenge which was "one layer wonder" but it turned out to be one of my top 5 favs this year...in fact I will say it IS my fav for 2014!

 

JULY brought us to Christal's birthday card - she loves those Uptown Girls too!
 

AUGUST brought a 50th Wedding Anniversary party and this card made my top 5 favs too!
 

SEPTEMBER brought the new release from Stampingbella and with it my new loves...Buddy and Jolly.  Seriously I could not get enough of these little guys and they easily made one of my top 5 fav!

 

 OCTOBER brings Halloween and this Too Cute To Spook PI girl!

NOVEMBER was full on for Christmas card making and Rudolph just makes me smile with his wonky eyes!

DECEMBER brought this little cutie and she made my top 5 favs too!

Well, I hope you enjoyed this look back at 2014.  Wishing you and yours all the best in 2015.....let the stamping begin!

Cheerio.....Leslie

 

Rudolph

I added 6 cards to my Christmas stash with this cutie. 

 

It's another image from Your Next Stamp called "Believe in the Magic" and he coloured up super quickly.  When I "mass produce" I make sure the image is easy to colour and the layout is simple.  I do all the cutting, then colouring, then finishing touches.  I find that's the fastest way for me :)

I stamped the image onto Bella's Bestest paper with Black Licorice Hybrid ink and coloured it with copics.  I made his nose shiny and red (like Rudolph) and added some googly eyes which roll around in the funniest way!  A little banner with a button and a hemp bow finished off the card.

Here are the copics I used.

 

 

 

Cheerio.....Leslie

Stamps:  Believe in the Magic (YNS)
Ink:  Black Licorice Hybrid ink, copics
Paper:  Bella's Bestest paper, Old Olive, Cherry Cobbler, Karen Foster "Season Stripes"
Other:  Jumbo Fishtail Flag Banner STAX die-namic (MFT), Crystal Effects, glitter, hemp cord, button, googly eyes

Winter Fun - SSSC244

It's Sunday and that means another Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge (SSSC244) and my own personal challenge to make them ALL Christmas cards.  I will admit, I was a bit freaked out by the tilted panel but I persevered :)

 

I stamped Winter Fun Robin onto Bella's Bestest paper with Black Licorice Hybrid ink and coloured it with copics.  He's certainly not a robin, not sure what bird he is - LOL.  I stamped the trees again and fussy cut them out so they would be outside the circle and it also gave them some dimension.  I added some tiny flecks of glitter to the trees and the bird's hat.  The sentiment is stamped onto a vellum banner and I strategically placed a tiny glue dot behind the "&" so it doesn't show.

 

 

Here are the copics I used.

 

 

Have a great week. 

 

Cheerio.....Leslie

Stamps:  Winter Fun Robin (YNS), Christmas Bauble (YNS)
Ink:  Black Licorice Hybrid ink, copics
Paper:  Bella's Bestest paper, Cherry Cobbler, Vellum, Fancy Pants Home for Christmas "Nativity" DSP
Other:  Fishtail Flags Layers STAX die-namic (MFT), glitter

Christmas Bauble

Here's another Christmas card for this year.  This was a card kit from Stampin' Up that made 8 cards.  I didn't have the stamp set that their sample was made from so I used one of my "many" uninked images :)

I do love this little kit from SU and wish I'd bought more - super value, super fast and super sweet!

Cheerio.....Leslie

Stamps: Christmas Bauble (Your Next Stamp)

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo black, copics

Paper:  Bella's Bestest White cardstock, SU Merry Little Christmas Simply Created Card Kit

Other:  Button, baker's twine, Star Dust Stickles

Sweet Sunday Stamp-a-thon

It's hard to believe that I haven't stamped in almost a month.  Turns out, moving to a new building at work, isn't so easy!!  But yesterday I spent the majority of my day in my stamp room and had a wonderful time creating some cards and getting my stamping mojo back :)

There's nothing better than a sketch and new rubber to get me back in the groove.  I have a ridiculous number of stamps that haven't seen ink yet - you too? - so am committed to getting them inky!  I used Karen's SSSC186 and made it a Christmas card as I am a wee bit behind on those.  I debated making Rudolph's nose shiny but opted for sparkly instead.  I added googly eyes for a bit of fun.

Just 6 copics - can you believe that?  I loved how this card turned out and so I made another exactly the same, so two more to add to my Christmas card pile.

Cheerio.....Leslie

Stamps:  Believe in the Magic
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo black ink, MFT Black Licorice (sentiment), copics

Paper: SU Riding Hood Red, Kraft, Lilybeedesign Christmas Cheer
Other:  Fishtail Flags Layers Stax die-namics, circle nesties