It's time for the
12th Annual Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at
Beccy's Place.
You can read the rules
HERE or head over to Beccy's Challenges and enter
HERE.
Beccy's inspiration is a set of four STUNNING cards
HERE,
she has coloured a single poinsettia image in shades of grey then cut it into four
- WOW - they're breathtakingly beautiful!
My list for "Do What You Love" is endless, because I love making anything
and everything papercraft, from cards to treat boxes and decor pieces.
Today my love is to use an unexpected stamp combination to make a Christmas card.
You may remember seeing this cute Christmas dalmatian
when I shared him for Day 15 - Plaids HERE
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My "unexpected stamp combination" Christmas card started with the
Paper 5 digital plaid patterned paper from the
Daisy Elements digital stamp set, the
Dalmatian digital stamp and
Too Much Happy digital sentiment from the
Dog Tales digital stamp set (
sadly now retired and no longer available), both sets from
Beccy’s Placeand both are far from what could be called festive.
I opened all the digital elements in Silhouette Studio and sized everything for a 5" x 7" card panel. I sliced the sentiment into separate words and sized them to fit nicely beside the sweet dalmatian. I added a merry little Santa hat to the dalmatian. I printed the card panel as a single layer and trimmed down to size. The dalmatian image panel was coloured with Copic markers AND this time I remembered the eyes. After a bit of searching in cyberland I learned that dalmatians usually have brown or blue eyes. Well blue eyes were OUT ... growing up there was a scary dog with one brown eye and one blue eye on my Aunt & Uncle's farm, since then I have avoided blue-eyed dogs, so brown it is. I made a 5" x 7" card base then adhered the card panel on top to finish my "you can never have too much happy" Christmas card.
Lots of markers to colour this little cutie.
He really is a Christmas cutie!
He's ready for a Happy Family Christmas!
He's so happy, if you blink you can almost see his tail wagging!
Here are my cards together, my original
Christmas Plaid Dalmatianand today's unexpected "too much happy" Christmas Dalmatian.
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INGREDIENTS
Paper 5 digital plaid patterned paper
Dalmatian digital stamp & Too Much Happy digital sentiment
which is sadly now retired and no longer available
textured cardstock
Copic Markers - to colour the image panel
W1-3-5 + C1-3 + T4-7-10 + YG25 + E55-57-59 + R24-27-29 + B000-00
300gsm smooth white cardstock - to make card base
Helmar 450 Quick Dry liquid adhesive – to adhere the layers
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I have entered my card in the
The lime green looks fantastic with the black, white and red, Tracy, great combo. I also like using unexpected images for different occasions, it’s a great way to extend your stamps!
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Beccy