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Bugaboo Stamps is celebrating a Christmas in July event with daily challenges!

Here is my entry for Day 5 (July 19). The sweet little Santa image is fussy cut from a sheet of scrapbook paper. I cut a seperate face, beard and hat fur with mounting foam to add some depth. The wonderful "Just be claus" sentiment (on the inside of the card) is one of the first stamps I ever bought, from Azadi Earles, back in the late 90's. I added some embellishment to the font to make the "Merry Christmas" on the card front. (Not sure what company makes that one. I stripped it off of the wood a while ago to use it in my MISTI.) 

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Bugaboo Stamps- Christmas in July (Photo- Santa Humor)  

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I’ve always loved making shape cards. So… Simon Says Monday Challenge is called “Get in Shape” I remembered a cute card that I created years ago. Found my template and cut it out of parchment cardstock. A few orange stripes, hand drawn features, sentiment stamped, tied a simple bow around the little feline's neck it’s good to go!

 

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Simon Says Monday Challenge- Get in Shape               

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Cute Card Thursday- Ribbons & Bows                          

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Recently discovered this free digi named “Tiny Dancer” on Tiddly Inks site. I loved coloring her, especially because the site also provides a great tutorial by Lisa Q on how to color “Shiny Black Hair.” I’ve tried coloring black hair before, and it didn’t look shiny. (Actually, it usually looked more like a hairball that a cat hacked up!) Lisa’s tutorial showed me that I was doing it all backward. I need to start with the darkest color. Did that on this card and like the results! Also, am slowly building a collection of alcohol markers and liking them. (Not Copics, as they aren’t in my budget. Picking up Spectrum Noir sets at JoAnn’s whenever I get a 50% off coupon. They seem to work well for me. By the time I retire in 5-20 years, I should have a nice set built up! )

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Tiddly Inks- Inspiration                                                 

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Artistic Inspirations Challenge- Summer Colors                        

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Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge    

    (craftyhazelnutspatternedpaper.blogspot.com)

A few weeks ago I won a challenge at Cute Card Thursday and was thrilled to be able to pick out images from Di’s Digital Designs. This sweet little girl, named Izzy, touched my heart! For this card, I colored Izzy with my new alcohol markers and used chalks for her face (I don’t have those colors of markers yet!) Her fur is accented with white gel pen (I provided a close up of that soft touch.) I printed off the sentiment “This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine... at Christmas and beyond!” for the inside of the card. Then, to follow that theme, I highlighted the lantern light with white pigment ink and added some “shadows" behind her and along the edges of the card. Finished off with a light flurry of snowflakes- stamped repeatedly in white pigment and gray dye inks until no ink remained on the stamps. Isn’t she precious?

(Note- I used a light blue parchment as my base for this single layer card, and attempted to make it CAS (which is such a challenge for me!) Even though there are snow flakes in the “white space” I did try to keep them to a minimum! I tried to follow CAS guidelines so I could enter this card into the Collaboration Challenge currently hosted by AAA Cards and Less is More because one of the DT’s for Less is More is named…. Izzy! I hope she likes this card made in her honor!

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Di’s Digi Stamps- Christmas in July  

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AAA Card Challenges- #94 A Collaboration               

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Less is More Challenge- Colored Card Base            

    (simplylessismoore.blogspot.com)

There are lots of Christmas in July challenges going on right now… and a few challenges that are Christmas themed all year round. So… made this card for those challenges. 

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Cas-usal Fridays- Christmas in July                                   

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Deep Ocean Challenge- Christmas in July                    

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Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge                                        

     (craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge.blogspot.co.uk)

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge2- Extra for July  
     (craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge2.blogspot.co.uk)