Puppy Present

Good morning all and happy Monday, I hope you have had a good weekend. It was the 7th birthday of my beautiful great niece yesterday, and this is the card I made for her.

The little dog, box and presents are from a Lawn Fawn set for Simon Says Stamp called Happy Howlidays. I love that the images don't just have to be used for Christmas cards.

I stamped and die-cut the images and then coloured them with Copic markers., Then I cut a front panel for the card using an MFT Stamps Blueprints Dienamics Stitched Rectangle Die.

Then I used a card edge die from a First Edition set called Build a Scene, to cut a scrap piece of card in the shape of clouds.

Then I placed the shaped card on the panel in a random pattern, and inked against the edge with Spun Sugar Distress Oxide Ink, to give the effect of fluffy clouds on a pink background.

The sentiment circle is from an older Simon Says Stamp monthly kit. I die-cut this a few times with white card, and stacked them together for dimension. Then I placed this on the background and arranged my images inside and around it, using wet glue and foam pads.

Then I finished it off with a die-cut balloon and a number 7.

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

A Pack of Dogs

I haven't been overly productive this week although I've continued making small batches of Christmas cards.  So far I have made a dozen cards like this one.

This uses the exclusive set designed by Lawn Fawn for Simon Says Stamp's 'Stamptember' release. Last year we missed out on a couple of the limited edition sets we liked, so this year we made sure to order early!

The set is called Happy Howlidays and features 3 dachshund figures, along with a variety of small stamps - scarves, lights, hats, presents etc. 

I used the small snowflakes in the set and stamped them in Caribbean sky ink from Altenew. After colouring the dogs with Copic markers they were added over the snowflakes with small foam pads.  I then added a string of lights and a reindeer cap to some, and a Father Christmas hat to others.

The sentiment is from the same set and I used red ink for some of the cards ad black for others.

I really like this set and hope you do too.

TTFN Jude xx