I love stretching stamps. No, not literally stretching them out of shape (although sometimes I do that with sentiment stamps to make an arch or something like that- LOL). I like doodling to add details or mixing stamp sets to stretch the versatility of stamps. That’s what I did for this card inspired by the movie “I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown,” using one of my favorite puppy stamp sets from Penny Black called, “Man’s Best Friend”.
I doodled on a string of holiday lights onto the dog house and I gave the pup a Santa hat from the Lawn Fawn “Baaah Humbug” stamp set (available HERE in the UK). Then, I added a little tag-banner and stamped “Happy Howlidays” from the Lawn Fawn stamp set of the same name and decorated it with a line of present bones (from Happy Howlidays) and a red bow (from Baaah Humbug). I think the little scene came out super cute, and I don’t think anyone that receives this card would imagine that I used a non-Christmas stamp as the main image. Success!
I stamped out the images with MFT Black Licorice Hybrid Ink (available HERE in the UK) and used the following Copic colors to color them up:
Dog shading: W0 and 1
Dog house (it’s easy to create a wood grain look by adding simple shaky line details), Santa hat, and bow: R35, 37 and 39
Dog house interior and roof: N5 and 7
Holiday lights and bows on dog bone presents: RV02, RV04, YG25, YG07, B01
Dog collar and grass: YG25, 07 and 09
For the papers, I got to use up 3 scraps from my paper scrap box! I had a pale blue tiny polka dot that I die cut into a circle using the Diemond Dies circle nesting die set. I hand cut a tag-banner from a pale green slightly larger polka dot paper, and I used a larger thin paper with a blue and green paisley for the background. Lastly, to add some texture and interest, I added Liquid Applique that I heated with my heat tool to make the Santa hat white trim soft and fluffy, Glossy Accents to all the holiday lights, and a coating of black Glaze pen on the dogs eyes and nose.
This card is being entered into the following challenges:
Penny Black and More Anything Christmas Challenge
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Christmas to Die For Challenge
Word Art Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge
Creatalicious Anything Goes with an Optional Sentiment Challenge
Just Keep on Creating Anything Goes Challenge
Crafty Purple Frog Magic of Christmas Challenge
Craft Your Passion Anything Goes Challenge
Seven Hills Crafts Christmas Song, Movie or Carole November Challenge
oh, this is adorable!! very creative way to stretch your stamps! thank you so much for playing along with us at penny black and more!
linda
Thanks so much Linda! I love this Penny Black stamp set and I just got a chance to use the Penny Black Winter Friends set too (too bad a few hours too late for this challenge–oh well). I am loving the sweetness of Penny Black stamps right now! 🙂
What a brilliant way to make that little cutie into a christmas cutie 😀
Thank you for joining us at the first Crafty Purple Frog challenge.
Hugs
Amy xx
Thanks so much Amy! I love stretching stamps like this, and I LOVE all things doggy so this was a double win for me! LOL tfstopping by! Big hugs, Kristina
What a super card! I love the layers of colour and visual interest. The dog looks adorable with his Christmas hat and the Happy Howlidays sets goes so well for the sentiment and bones! Thanks so much for playing along with us at Seven Hills Crafts 🙂
Awww thanks so much Esther! Stretching the use of stamps is one of my favorite things to do with papercrafting, and I LOVE all things doggy, so this was a bonus for me! 😀 lol TFStopping by and for taking the time to leave such a sweet comment! Big hugs, Kristina
Your card is super cute! I love the sweet pup, and the colors and design are great too. Thank you for joining our challenge at Craft Your Passion. We hope to see you again!
~ Bonnie DT
Thanks for your sweet comment! It really means a lot to me! Hugs, Kristina
A wonderful card!
Thank you soo much for taking part in our “anything goes with optional use a sentiment” challenge over at Creatalicious & good luck in the draw.
Hope to see you again in our new challenge as well…
Hugs,
Melanie
(DT-Coordinator Creatalicious Challenges)
(DT Crafty Friends)
(DT The Sketchy Challenges)
You’re so sweet to stop by and leave all this crafty love! Big hugs, Kristina
Sorry it has taken so long to comment on this card, I had to leave my blog abruptly due to ill health. This is such a lovely card and just to let you know that the link-up’s are up and running again, look forward to seeing your submissions
Anything goes September link-up, Just keep on creating
Susan xx
Sending hugs and blessings your way, Susan!