Day 30 - Doing MORE of what I love . . .

 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.

Day 30 - Do What You Love

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 another Christmas card.

You may remember seeing this cute Christmas dalmatian

when I shared him for Day 15 - Plaids HERE and for Day 30 - Do what you love 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 Place

and 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 "Happiness is in the simple things" Christmas card.

Lots of markers to colour this little cutie.

He really is a Christmas cutie!

   

He's enjoying the simple things, surrounded by FAMILY at Christmas,

no wonder he has such a delightful smile on his face.

   

Here are my cards together, my original Christmas Plaid Dalmatian

and today's unexpected "simple things" Christmas Dalmatian.

And here are all three of my Christmas Dalmatians cards together.

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INGREDIENTS

 Paper 5 digital plaid patterned paper

- from the Daisy Elements digital stamp set - from Beccy’s Place

Dalmatian digital stamp & Happiness is in the Simple Things digital sentiment

- from the Dog Tales digital stamp set from Beccy’s Place, 

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

12th Annual Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Place Challenges 

Day 30 - Doing what I love - CAS slimline

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.

Day 30 - Do What You Love

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.

This time my love is another CAS slimline Christmas card.

I opened the Bare Tree Decorated Colour pre-coloured digital stamp

from the Oh Divine Night digital stamp set from Beccy's Place,

the Little Planter pre-coloured digital stamp (details below,

a retired digital stamp set from Beccy's Place) and

the Merry Little Christmas digital sentiment 

from the Jingle Bells digital stamp set from Beccy's Place.

I sized the images and sentiment to fit on a tall slimline card, 3 1/2" x 8 1/2".

I printed the panel, trimmed to size, matted on red textured cardstock,

trimmed to 1/16" with my Perfect Layers Ruler, then adhered

the matted panel on to a made-by-me slimline card base.

  

   

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INGREDIENTS

 Bare Tree Decorated Colour - pre-coloured digital stamp

- from the Oh Divine Night digital stamp set – from Beccy's Place

Little Planter pre-coloured digital stamp

- from the A Little Something digital stamp set - this set is now retired but you can see the set and projects created using it by clicking HERE or by clicking on the “A Little Something” LABEL on the left hand side of the Beccy’s Place Blog.

Merry Little Christmas digital sentiment 

- from the Jingle Bells digital stamp set from Beccy's Place

textured cardstock

Perfect Layers Ruler

300gsm smooth white cardstock - to make image panel & base 

Helmar 450 Quick Dry liquid adhesive – to adhere the layers

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I have entered my card in the

12th Annual Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Place Challenges 

Day 30 - Doing what I love - CAS with sparkle

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.

Day 30 - Do What You Love

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.

This time my love is another CAS slimline Christmas card with a touch of sparkle.

I opened the Bare Tree Decorated Colour pre-coloured digital stamp

from the Oh Divine Night digital stamp set from Beccy's Place,

the Little Planter pre-coloured digital stamp (details below,

a retired digital stamp set from Beccy's Place) and

the Merry Christmas digital sentiment (details below,

a retired digital digital stamp set from Beccy's Place).

I sized the images and sentiment to fit on a tall slimline card, 3 1/2" x 8 1/2".

I printed the panel, trimmed to size, matted on red textured cardstock,

trimmed to 1/16" with my Perfect Layers Ruler, then adhered

the matted panel on to a made-by-me slimline card base.

I finished off the card by adding a Wink of Stella sparkle to the star and baubles.

  

   

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INGREDIENTS

 Bare Tree Decorated Colour - pre-coloured digital stamp

- from the Oh Divine Night digital stamp set – from Beccy's Place

Little Planter pre-coloured digital stamp

- from the A Little Something digital stamp set - this set is now retired but you can see the set and projects created using it by clicking HERE or by clicking on the “A Little Something” LABEL on the left hand side of the Beccy’s Place Blog.

Merry Christmas digital sentiment

– from the Emu Parade digital stamp set – this set is now retired but you can see the set and projects created using it by clicking HERE or by clicking on the “Emu Parade” LABEL on the left hand side of the Beccy’s Place Blog.

textured cardstock

Perfect Layers Ruler

300gsm smooth white cardstock - to make image panel & card base 

Helmar 450 Quick Dry liquid adhesive – to adhere the layers
Wink of Stella clear glitter brush

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I have entered my card in the

12th Annual Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Place Challenges 

Day 30 - Doing what I love . . . CAS

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.

Day 30 - Do What You Love

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 was going to be fussy cutting and layering but my fingers don't want to co-operate, so now my love is to make a CAS Christmas card.

I opened the Poinsettias pre-coloured digital stamp from the Poinsettia digital stamp set from Beccy’s Place and sized it to fit on a 5" square panel.  I added a made-by-me Merry Christmas sentiment (font details below) and I'm shaking my head, why, why did I make one when I have so many favourites in my digital stash from Beccy’s Place.  That's a question that I cannot answer because I really don't know what came over me, hoping I don't make that mistake again.  

I printed the panel on white textured cardstock, matted with a pop of black cardstock, trimmed to 1/16" with my Perfect Layers Ruler, matted again on a 5 1/2" square white textured cardstock then adhered on to a made-by-me card base.

   

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INGREDIENTS
Poinsettias pre-coloured digital stamp

- from the Poinsettia digital stamp set – from Beccy’s Place
MERRY sentiment - Panda Tired Caps Font

Christmas sentiment - Australian Script Font

textured cardstock

Perfect Layers Ruler

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

12th Annual Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Place Challenges 

Day 16 - N is for New Year . . . again

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.

Day 16 - N

Beccy's inspiration is a magical Northern Lights Night sky card HERE

My "N" is for NEW, New Year, again

... yikes, 2025 is less than a month away!

I shared my first New Year card HERE

My second New Year card design for the year started as a cut file in Silhouette Studio (details and link below).  The card is A6 size and has the ornate design cut out of the card base front.  I made two changes.  First I sliced off the ornate front panel so that I could mat it and layer it on the front of a card base.  The second change was the sizing, my favourite card size is 5" x 7", so I locked the aspect and increased the panel width to 5", the height increased to 6 3/4", which will still fit nicely in a 5" x 7" envelope.

I cut the ornate Happy New Year panels from gold glitter cardstock then matted them on 5" x 6 3/4".  I learnt my lesson from my first cards and was super speedy while dotting the glue.  I aligned the ornate glitter panels on the left side of the cardstock panels.

I made a pair of 5" x 6 3/4" card bases and adhered the ornate panels on top.

   

Wishing you a Happy 2025!!!

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INGREDIENTS
Happy New Year Greeting Card Set of 3 – cut file - 3 designs in the set

- one random design available as a freebie from Drizy Studio

- in my case, I got this star-filled tree design
glitter cardstock

textured cardstock

300gsm smooth white cardstock - to make card bases

Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue - to adhere the delicate cut panels 
Helmar 450 Quick Dry liquid adhesive – to glue panel to card bases

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I have entered my cards in the

12th Annual Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Place Challenges 

Day 16 - N is for NEW Year

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.

Day 16 - N

Beccy's inspiration is a magical Northern Lights Night sky card HERE

My "N" is for NEW, New Year

... yikes, it won't be long until we'll be signing with 2025 dates!

My first New Year cards for the year starts as a cut file in Silhouette Studio (details and link below).  The card is A6 size and has the ornate design cut out of the card base front.  I made two changes.  First I sliced off the ornate front panel so that I could mat it and layer it on the front of a card base.  The second change was the sizing, my favourite card size is 5" x 7", so I locked the aspect and increased the panel width to 5", the height increased to 6 3/4", which will still fit nicely in a 5" x 7" envelope.

I cut the ornate Happy New Year panels from gold glitter cardstock then matted them on 5" x 6 3/4".  That sounds quick and easy, right?  Well it wasn't, it took ages dotting adhesive over all the delicate detail so that it didn't stick up and risk catching, bending or tearing.  By the time I got around all the bits, the first dots were almost dry, so I had to do a super speedy second round of dotting.  I aligned the ornate glitter panels on the left side of the cardstock panels and they looked lovely, well worth the effort.

I made a pair of 5" x 6 3/4" card bases and adhered the ornate panels on top.

Wishing you a Happy 2025!!!

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INGREDIENTS
Happy New Year Greeting Card SVG – cut file - 3 designs in the set

- one random design available as a freebie from Drizy Studio

- in my case, I got this bell design
glitter cardstock

textured cardstock

300gsm smooth white cardstock - to make card bases

Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue - to adhere the delicate cut panels 
Helmar 450 Quick Dry liquid adhesive – to glue panel to card bases

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I have entered my cards in the

12th Annual Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Place Challenges 

Day 27 - X is for X-Press It again

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.

Day 27 - X

Beccy's inspiration is a delightful winter scene card HERE,

with the snowman coloured beautifully on X-Press It blending card.

My "X" is also for X-Press It blending card, again,

I printed the image panel on X-Press It blending card

and made another Cute Curly Candy Cane Christmas Card

coloured with Copic markers,  this time

I swapped the red and green from my first card.

 

No, you're not seeing things,

this is my fourth Candy Cane Christmas Card.

I shared a red Cute Curly Candy Cane Christmas Card for Day 3 HERE

and a green Candy Cane Christmas Card for Day 27 HERE

a red Candy Cane Christmas Card for Day 3 HERE

      

Like my first Curly Candy Cane Card, I used Silhouette Studio to create the image panel for my card.  I sized the Curly Candy Cane digital stamp from the Candy Canes digital stamp set from Beccy’s Place to fit a 4" square panel.  I created the sentiment (font details below), printed the panel on X-Press It blending card then manually trimmed to size.  I used Copic markers to colour the candy cane, OK, it's partially coloured, this is my quirky take on the "loading t-shirts" you see people wearing and translating it to Christmas.  Once coloured, I matted the panel with sparkling red glitter cardstock.  I made a 5 1/2" square top folding card base, adhered the image panel and my Candy Cane Christmas Card was complete.

   

Here are my red Curly Candy Cane card and green Curly Candy Cane cards together.

. . . but wait, there's more . . .

 

Here are my green Candy Cane Christmas card and 

green Curly Cane Christmas cards together.

And here are all four of my candy cane cards together.

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INGREDIENTS
Curly Candy digital stamp from the Candy Canes digital stamp set from Beccy’s Place
Christmas Spirit sentiment - Curlz MT Font

LOADING sentiment - Courier New Font

X-Press It Blending Card - for the image panel

Copic Markers - C0-C1 + G20-G21 + G24-G28

and a touch of "0" when I coloured outside the lines!

red glitter cardstock

300gsm smooth white cardstock - to make card base

Helmar 450 Quick Dry liquid adhesive – to glue the layers

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I have entered my card in the

12th Annual Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Place Challenges