Dachshund Through the Snow

I'm sneaking in at the last moment with a card for the sketch challenge over at the Inky Paws Challenge. I've been wanting to play along all week and finally got a small window of time this afternoon before I head off to work!

I decided to use the set Holiday Hounds for my card. I have 2 mini dachshunds, Anna and Elsa, and so I colored up my image to look like my Anna, who is a chocolate dachshund. I then used colors from the patterned paper I used for her sweater. For the bottom half on the middle panel I embossed with a falling snow pattern after heat embossing the sentiment in white.

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Make the Moose Out of Life

Sunday is Family Day around my house, our oldest comes over and we watch a movie and have dinner, but I was able to get a quick card done before he got here.

Freshly Made Sketches has a fun layout this week and thanks to the 30 Day Daily Marker coloring challenge that took in Feb I had some colored images around. I decided to create a card using one of the Newton's Nook moose I had colored up.

I used a die from MFT to create the main panel and then embossed it with a folder from SU. I then used a stitched die from Lawn Fawn to create the middle piece. That's the smooth part of the hill my moose snowboarder is hanging out on :) I stamped the sentiment in blue, cut it out with a die and then put the card together, using a Pacific Point card base.

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Stamps: Moose Mountain (Newton's Nook)

Paper: Pacific Point (SU), Neenah Solar White

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Pacific Point (SU)

Copics: I forgot to write them down, oops!
Accessories: MFT Blueprints 27, Lawn Fawn Stitched Border Dies, MFT Inside and Out Stitched Circle Dies, dimensionals

You're Snow Much Fun

I had a nice 3 day weekend spending time with my husband and going into Anchorage to celebrate our oldest sons  25th birthday so I didn't do any crafting this weekend. I decided to jump back into things by playing along with the Inky Paws Challenge, which is a sketch.

For my card I decided to use Moose Mountain (again). I really do love this set. This time though I decided to keep my moose a boy and didn't cut off the antlers (even if you color the image in feminine colors, if it still has antlers it's a boy, pet peeve of mine LOL). I went with a yellow, black and gray color scheme for my card. I just love the pop of yellow, it just seems to make everything better!

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Stamps: Moose Mountain (Newton's Nook)

Paper: Basic Black (SU), Smoky Slate (SU), Neenah Solar White, Core'dinations Plaid Paper

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Copics: E53, E55, E57

E41, E42, E43

Y02, Y15, Y19

N1, N3, N5, N7

T0, T2, T3

BG0000, BG000

Accessories: MFT Blueprints 15, MFT Stitched Circles and Rectangles, SU Softly Falling TIEF , CB Argyle EF, dimensionals 

Make the Moose out of Life

This week The Paper Players has a theme challenge and it is to use any type of animal on your project. I knew right away what I wanted to use....duh, a moose of course! I recently got a fabulous moose set from Newton's Nook so it was the perfect excuse to ink it up again! I got to see a moose last night after work, I was coming off of school grounds and she was on the side of the road, munching away on trees(if you follow me on Instagram I posted a video of her in my story)!

This set comes with 2 moose snowboarding. Both moose have antlers but I wanted to have a girl moose on my card so I stamped the image on my Neenah Solar White and then used my Scan N Cut to cut right along the image outline instead of leaving a white outline. This way I can cut off the antlers to make a female moose and it doesn't look funny!

I wanted bright colors since when you're snowboarding it's easy to blend in with the snow. I used Crushed Curry from SU with copics that matched to color in the outfit. To balance it out I went with Basic Gray and just a touch of Marina Mist.

My layout is from last weeks sketch at Freshly Made Sketches (except I added the circle sentiment).

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Stamps: Moose Mountain (Newton's Nook)

Paper: Crushed Curry (SU), Basic Gray (SU), Marina Mist (SU). Basic Gray DSP (SU retired), Neenah Solar White

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Basic Gray (SU)

Copics: E53, E55, E57

 Y13. Y15, Y17

YG21, YG23, YG25

B91, B93, B95

W2, W4, W6

C1,C3, C5

Accessories: MFT Blueprints 2 and 20, MFT Inside and Out Stitched Circles, Dimensionals

Make the Moose Out of Life

I recently got the Newton's Nook Moose Mountain set after seeing it on my friend Holly's blog. I just think these stamps are SO cute and of course they are perfect for Alaska. I did make a change to one of the stamps though....both moose come with antlers and of course everyone knows that only male moose have them, female moose do not have a rack. Therefore I used my Scan N Cut to cut the image directly around the black outline and then I was able to cut off the antlers on the snowboarder catching air, turning it into a girl. Now I have both a male and female moose on my card!

Merry Christmas Eve!