A little over a year ago, my hubby’s aunt and uncle adopted Sam and Toby after having met and fallen in love with my little Bandito, so I thought I would make them a customized holiday card using the Christmas Doggy stamp from My Creative Time and coloring them up to resemble their fur babies. 🙂
The mostly white dog with light brown ears is colored with Copic markers: W1, W3, and E23. The black and white dog is colored up with W1, 3, 5, 7 and 9.  The two Santa hats are colored with R24, 29, and 39 with the white fluffy dimension added with some Deco Art Snow Writer Paint.  To make them look a little more lifelike, I also added white highlights on the eyes and noses and furry details with a white Sakura Gelly Roll pen and touched the eyes and noses with Glossy Accents.
For the card front, I used up an old scrap of pale green damask patterned paper from my scrap box. I layered it with a piece of vellum die cut with the largest rectangle from the My Favorite Things Cross Stitched STAX Rectangle Die Set, which I heat embossed with a nice, substantial “Happy Holidays” stamp from Unity’s Christmas Eve Chowder stamp set and some charcoal grey Zing! embossing powder.
Then I went to town designing the card with the Diemond Dies Pine Branch Die and the Diemond Dies Christmas Ornament Die. I die cut the branches with white card stock (rather than green) to give a more clean, winter wonderland look, and I die cut the ornaments from pale green an silver glitter paper to add sparkle and shine. Â I snipped off the top of the ornaments to alternate the colors and did the same for the stars and tiny dots that were die cut from the ornaments. Â I glued them back into the alternate colored ornaments to add a little extra interest. Lastly I used silver Stickles to draw in the strings for the ornaments.
Diemond Dies is having a Christmas/end-of-year sale through December 31, 2015. Use the code christmas15 and get 15% off your entire order, free worldwide shipping with no minimum purchase required! Â Now that’s a deal!
The following is a process video:
This card is being entered into the following challenges:
Whimsy Stamps Anything Goes Winter Challenge
Simon Says Stamp Monday Winter Wonderland Challenge
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Die Crazy Challenge
Raisin Boat Christmas and New Years Challenge
Penny Black and More Anything Goes with a Stamp Challenge
Unity Be Inspired Challenge
613 Avenue Create Anything Goes Challenge
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Anything Goes Challenge
The Shabby Tea Room Winter Wonderland Challenge – mostly 2 colors and little critters like in the inspiration photo:
Thanks for stopping by, and have a fabulous winter day! WOOF
Super cute card! Thanks so much for sharing with us here at 613 Avenue Create! Not familiar with Diamond Dies, I will have to check them out!
Hugz,
Chana Malkah Harris, Owner
Thanks so much Chana! I hope you find some great dies at Diemond Dies and get to take advantage of their sweet end of year sale. TFStopping by! Hugs, Kristina
awesome job!!! they look just like sam and toby 🙂 thank you for playing along with us at simon says stamp wednesday challenge!
Thanks bunches Jenn! I hope my hubby’s aunt and uncle think these little cuties look like their pups too! TFStopping by, big hugs, Kristina
Such an adorable card Kristina. I love the cute puppies and the sparkly baubles are gorgeous.
Thank you for sharing your lovely card with us at Penny Black and More and we hope you will join us again next month.
Shirley
Thank you so much Shirley! I recently discovered your challenge blog and I will definitely be back! I have some of the most adorable Penny Black stamps that I am really looking forward to inking up for Valentines. 🙂 tfstopping by! Hugs, Kristina
Adorable card………..bet they loved it!
Aww thanks! Yes, they said it was the cutest card they received. LOL
Adorable cards and adorable dogs! 🙂
Awww thanks! Yes, my hubby’s aunt and uncle said it was their favorite card of the season! LOL It pays to craft with puppies! 😀
Oh, how super cute. That is delightful and your colouring rocks !! Super wonderful card and I am sure they will love it 😀
Hugz
IKE in Greece xxxxxxxxxx
Aww you are so sweet! Thanks so much! Yes, they said it was their favorite card of the season. LOL It helps to feature THEIR fur babies on their card. hahaha TF stopping by and happy holidays! Big hugs, Kristina
Such a fabulous card! Love the cute image. Thank you so much for sharing with us at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. 🙂
Thanks so much Meihshia! I love that little puppy stamp too. 🙂 TF stopping by! Hugs, Kristina
Beautiful card, those doggies are so cute. Thank you for sharing at Penny Black & More ‘Anything Goes with a stamp’ challenge and good luck x Susan xComment
Thanks so much for stopping by Susan! I’m so happy to have discovered Penny Black & More (even though it was at the end of this year). Thanks again!
This is a wonderful creation and perfect for our 24th ‘ANYTHING GOES’ challenge. Thanks for sharing your talent with us. Good luck. Wishing you a blessed festive season.
Hugs
DesÃre
{Lil Patch of Crafty Friends DT Member}
{Doing Life – my personal blog}
Awww thanks so much Desire! I hope you and yours have a joyous, healthy and wonderful 2016!