A stamp for all occasions...Maybe?

 Just a little late posting this  Halloween card. This gorgeous dog stamp is by Nellie Snellen. It's quite small but it has a lot of detail. When I first saw this stamp  I  thought, he looks a little sad and in need of a home, so I gave him one.

This Stamp would be great for several types of card.  Pet loss, missing you, I'm sorry, and thinking of you cards  all came to mind immediately. My thought process is ...if you can think of more than two occasions you can use a stamp for ... buy it.  

Once it arrived I started stamping and colouring the images in different colours to see how he looked in various colours. I masked him off and blended ink around him to give him a colourful background.

 I had some witches hats floating around my desk, left overs from the broomstick projects I'd been working on the previous week. Which gave me the idea of giving the dog a hat. He certainly has a reason for looking unhappy now. This then lead to me creating a Santa hat for him.

I cut a piece of red card into a shape that roughly resembled a Santa hat and brushed some ink over the edge of a piece of scrap paper to give the impression of creases and folds in the hat. Then cut a white sausage shaped piece of card  for the furry trim and flocked it and stuck  it on the hat with thin foam pads for a little more dimension.  I added a white pompom to the tip of the hat to complete the Santa look. The sentiment  on this card is from  last year's  Stampin up mini winter catalogue, I think.

I got a little carried away with him. Here he is without his hats in golden tones.

 Then I decided to find out what he'd look like as a chocolate spaniel.  The red background may have been a mistake with the browns on this one. The red background seems to bring out the red tone in the browns making him look quite red, more so in this photo .

For this last one I decided to leave the background white.

 Such a sad looking puppy. I thought I'd include this close up so you can see just how much detail there is on this stamp.

Clean and Simple cards for Christmas.

I have left this years making of Christmas cards to the last minute, so these are clean and simple cards.

I visited the LOTV  digital stamp shop last week and came across some new really cute images and what's more they were discounted so time to increase my stock of LOTV images.

 I wanted a few new Christmas images for this years cards to ensure this years recipients didn't get the same image a last year.

The Santa image above does NOT have  number plate on the digital stamp. I added the number plate to personalize the card.

 I found this image touching and personal, probably because I have worked in a school for 26 years and have  had a great deal to do with school plays over the years. Making the costumes, painting scenery and making props. So this image was a must have.

This image was just too cute  not to purchase.