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\u00a0of stamps. That’s what I did for this card\u00a0inspired 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”<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n <\/a>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<\/a><\/span> (available HERE<\/a><\/span> in the UK). Then, I added a little tag-banner and stamped “Happy Howlidays” from the Lawn Fawn<\/a><\/span> 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\u00a0a non-Christmas stamp as the main image. Success!<\/p>\n I stamped out the images with MFT Black Licorice Hybrid Ink<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(available HERE<\/a><\/span> in the UK) and used the following Copic colors to color them up: <\/a><\/p>\n 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\u00a0Diemond Dies circle nesting die set<\/a><\/span>. 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<\/a><\/span> 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.<\/p>\n This card is being entered into the following challenges: <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\nDog shading: W0 and 1
\nDog house (it’s easy to create a wood grain look by adding simple shaky line details), Santa hat, and bow: R35, 37 and 39
\nDog house interior and roof: N5 and 7
\nHoliday lights and bows on dog bone presents: RV02, RV04, YG25, YG07, B01
\nDog collar and grass: YG25, 07 and 09<\/p>\n
\nPenny Black and More Anything Christmas Challenge<\/a><\/span>
\nSimon Says Stamp Wednesday Christmas to Die For Challenge<\/a>
\nWord Art Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge<\/a>
\nCreatalicious Anything Goes with an Optional Sentiment Challenge<\/a>
\nJust Keep on Creating Anything Goes Challenge<\/a>
\nCrafty Purple Frog Magic of Christmas Challenge
\n<\/a>Craft Your Passion Anything Goes Challenge<\/a>
\n<\/a>Seven Hills Crafts Christmas Song, Movie or Carole November Challenge<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/span>MFT Color\u00a0Challenge #58<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n