Busted

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Challenge #215

Theme 'Boy'ish' 

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This week I am working with the digi - Busted by Stitchy Stamps available in the Stitchy Bear Digital Outlet.

A dilema hahaha Boyish theme and a Christmas digi, am I in my comfort zone - no, far from it.  I have to admit though I love the challenge of working out my comfort zone, stimulating the old grey matter hahahahaha.  To begin with I coloured the digi, mounted it on black card as I colour on paper and for this creation I needed strength.  So looking forward to getting hold of some decent card to colour on when I return to the UK in a couple of weeks.  The image was then fussy cut.

Once cut, I had a whale of a time embellishing.  Gold Stickles for the dog collar, White Lace Stickles for Santa's furry bits and Ice Stickles for his hairy bits.  The dog also had googlie eyes added too (this seems to be a bit below the held with the language I am using - I do apologise lol)

 Promarkers used to colour the image

Next I used a Winter Tree cutting die from Treasure Box, part of a winter them set I bought a couple of years ago.  The sections were air brushed with Promarkers.

 Once assembled more Stickle play time and to finish off a pre cut star for the top of the tree.

 Now for something new, not made one of these before.  I used Papermania Christmas paper and worked out where to cut to form 3D tabs to stick Santa and the tree on.

 To make the window for the background I used some starry night vellum mounted on card and white peel off line sticker to make the window frame and panes.  A bit of green material for the curtains and a pelmet using the same backing paper to finish off.

 Now you can't have a Christmas tree without a few wee gifts under it so I cut some rectangles out of card, coloured with Promarkers and decorated with glitter pens.  Finally some gold and green twine for a bit more bling.

Once all the elements for the inside of the card were made I assembled them in the locations I wanted and added a couple of die cuts to represent a carpet and also the plays a message can be written later.

OK, so I have a Christmas card but it is not in the least boyish, how do I get around this??????  I covered the front and back of the card with another layer of red card which I embossed with an A4 Embossilicious folder and then made some sports balls - oh dear there I go again lol.  Luckily SCAL had a rugby shaped ball in the library, I think it is an American football but look enough like a tradition old style rugby ball for me to get away with it.  Alas no football so I had to design that, another challenge it itself.  Each ball is about 2cm squared.  6 of each type of ball was cut and I will used these to decorate the front of the card and I hope a good link to the Boy'ish theme of this weeks challenge.

  View of the front of the card

Side view of the card showing the 3D elements in position

Proper view of the inside of the card

Ingredients:-

• digi - Busted by Stitchy Stamps available in the Stitchy Bear Digital Outlet.
• dies - Spellbinders Grand Labels 1
• Tree Die from Treasure Box Designs
• Promarkers
• Stickles
• Material, vellum, peel off stickers, from my stash

I am entering the following challenges

• Color Me Creative Challenge -2W, 3E - #93 (W2 of 2)  Boy, Guy, Father
• Completely Christmas - W - #14 (posted Friday) Anything Goes
• Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - W,must be Christmas #179 3 of somethingThanks for looking and hope you have a happy crafting day:) - 3 TYPES OF CUTTING - TREE = ELECTRONIC,   WRITING AREA = METAL DIES, SANTA = FUSSY CUTTING
• Hanna & Friends - 2W, cute/stamped/person/animal (W2 of 2) - Dies
• Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - M, 2E, must be Winter Holiday - Santa(ends Jun11)
• Crafty Creations - 2W - #264 Use something that begins with "S" - SANTA, SPARKLE, SPORT
• Die Cuttin' Divas W, must include a Die-cut - #167 For The Boys
• Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge W, 2E, C10, Must be Christmas- Fancy Folds
• Paper Minutes W- #323 Animals
• Whoopsi Daisy - W, SIO - Lots of Layers