Thursday 31 March 2016

Santa Paws


Afternoon! I survived my first day back, I deleted 124 emails telling me my mailbox was nearly full. More to go tomorrow.
It's a beautiful sunny spring day here in Lancashire, so when better to share a Christmas card?
I used the stamp set from Simon says stamp and paper pieced it. I struggled to find suitable papers for the animals but then stumbled on a monochromatic set from Docrafts which has pairs of patterns reversed. I coloured them with my copics to give me the right colours and went round the edge of the animals with a pale blue to give them some definition. I die cut the image with tattered lace pin dot rectangle and embossed the 4x4 kraft card base with tonic pin dot squares. I added ranger black enamel accents for the eyes and noses and glossy accents covered with glitter (for the antlers) and polar white flowersoft (for the hat trim). I gave the scarf a sparkle with clear wink of Stella and edged everything with some stickles.

10 comments:

  1. très mignonne création Cara, ce sentiment est super, je l'aime beaucoup aussi, merci de jouer avec nous chez 52CCT, biz

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  2. I'm glad your first day back at work went well Cara . I bet you're feeling tired this evening.

    I LOVE your card. The image is adorable and I think the papers you've paper pieced with look fantastic. I also like all the sparkle and the black enamel eyes and noses are super cute. Barbxx

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  3. omgosh! how sweet are these!?!?! love the paper piecing!!! thank you so much for playing along with us at simon says stamp wednesday challenge!!

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  4. Hi Cara, how cute are your animals, love the patterned papers you chose. Hope you have had time to rest after your first day back at work.... Have a great weekend... Megan

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  5. Love all your paper piecing Cara. The animals are definitely cute too.

    Hugs Erika. x

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  6. Your card is super cute Cara, love your paper piecing and the kraft base with the pin dots looks fab :)
    Sorry I'm late commenting, I'm playing catch up !
    Hugs, Kaz x

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  7. This is so much fun! Love it :)
    Thanks for sharing it at 52CCT :)

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  8. What an absolutely fabulous job paper piecing those adorable Christmas critters! Love all of the sparkle and shine you've added too!

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  9. Cool card, I love your paper pieced doggies (another stamp for my wish list)! Glad your first day back went well, going through the emails is a torture isn't it! ... I had 75 emails in my folder after the Easter break and over 50 of them were junk grrrr.

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  10. Hi Cara....Got my D.T hat on....Beautiful card....love the sweet image...and paper piecing....Thank you for joining us this week at Fab n Funky...Joolsx

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