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