Hi y'all,
Today I'm on the Cards und More Shop Blog with this cute set of doggie Christmas cards. I'm a total dog person, so of course I fell in love with the cute Happy Pawlidays stamp set by My Favorite Things. The images in this set are so sweet and funny that cards with these doggies come together very easily, you don't need much extras to set them in scene.

I stamped the images with Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto white cardstock, cut them out and colored them with Copic markers.

For the sentiment I die-cut the Merry Christmas Circle Frame from red cardstock, covered it with Wink of Stella for some sparkle and a thick layer of Ranger Glossy Accents.

For the background I used some palette knives to bring on Nuvo Glimmer Paste Moonstone through the Dutch Doobadoo Mask Art Stars onto my card.

I glued the images with foam tape onto the card and added some white accents with a Sharpie pen and Ranger Enamel Accents Black Tie on the doggies' noses for the final touch.

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Have a great day and give your doggies an extra hug from me!

Hi and welcome,

I hope you all had a great wekend!

Today I want to show you a card that is playing with a lot of contrasts - black, white accents and a lot of color. I therefore used bleaching, a very old technique, but still one of my favorites.

I got the Waffle Flower Enveloper Hello stamp set by a dear friend for my birthday, and I absolutely wanted to use it today. First, I stamped several images side by side with Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto white cardstock. I masked the girl's face, then sponged the whole image with mowed lawn Distress ink. Then I fussy-cut the image.
For the background I sponged white cardstock with Ranger distress inks mowed lawn, squeezed lemonade, picked raspberry and salty ocean. First I sponged through the Dutch Doobadoo Stencil Fabric, thenI removed the stencil and sponged with the same colors again. I added some more images of the stamp set with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. It looked like ths:

With simple household bleach I then bleached the images - be careful when working with bleach, you should only do this in well-ventilated rooms, and don't you get anything onto your skin or into your eyes! Nevertheless, the effect of bleach is kind of magic!

Then I colored the bleached images with markers and added accents with a white gelly pen. Finally, I stamped the words "Hi" and "Happy Mail". I glued the main image onto the background, then everything onto black cardstock and onto a white card.
Here's a close-up of the finished card:

It's kind of a cheer-up card, I think.
I hope I could make your Monday a bit happier with this, and perhaps you got inspired to play with bleach and white accents, too!

Wishing you a wonderful week!

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