myasperations 12-1-25

     This year, the Path of Positivity (POP) is challenging you to Embrace the Unexpected! (Click HERE if you'd like to read more in depth about our overall theme for 2025).  To help inspire you on this journey, each month we will be doing things such as creating fun unexpected projects, working with items we might not typically work with, taking approaches that are different from what we normally do, offering up the unexpected to someone in our life, etc. So, let's get to the details for this month's challenge " Embracing the Unexpected…Unexpected Animal on a Holiday Card.” (More theme information can be found HERE.)  

    Here's an except of the months challenge from the creator of the POP challenge, Lisa D.-

 “Just like with colours, we often associate certain animals with specific holidays and/or occasions. What would Christmas be without reindeer, polar bears and penguins, or all of the birds listed in the classic carol, The 12 Days of Christmas (partridge, turtle doves, French hens, calling birds, geese, swans and technically the cows that those maids are a milking). Regionally, other animals make an appearance with kangaroos pulling Santa's sleigh in Australia, and robins and wrens being symbols in the UK and Europe. Finally, there are the animals associated with the birth of Christ: donkeys, sheep, oxen and the camels that brought the visiting wise men. 

     So, the optional twist this month, is create a card for any holiday, using an animal that IS NOT NORMALLY CONNECTED to the occasion you have chosen. With Christmas ahead, and other holidays in the new year that will be here sooner than you know it, it is a good time to make a fun card.  Your choices are endless, but here are a few examples to get you thinking: Create a Christmas card with one of the following: a hedgehog, a rabbit, an elephant, or a zebra. Create an Easter card with a lion or a tiger, or a bear [oh my]! Make a dog or a cat the focus of a Halloween card.”

    Final note- the twist is completely optional and you don't need to follow it in order to win. As long as your creation is positive or encouraging in some way, enter it into the POP challenge for a chance to win $6 worth of images from our sponsor, Scribbles Designs, and/or be honored as one of our special "picks"!

     My card features a Scribbles Digital Image named “Snow Kisses.” I had fun featuring a penguin as the critter on my card, doing a bit o’ friendly nose-touching with a friendly Snowperson! The primary colors on my card are shades of blue, plus pink and few bits of red and green! I picked sentiments that supported the sweet image and it’s feeling of wonder love and joy!

Supplies: 

·    Scribbles Digital Image (Snow Kisses).

·    Colored with Spectrum Noir Classique markers and Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen

·    Background Papers from Hobby Lobby and my stash

·    Front Sentiments from a Beccy's Place Digi Set, which is no longer available. (Business recently changed to clear stamps/wholesale only)

·    Inside Sentiment is from We Are 3 (Sadly Etsy Shop is closed.)

·    Sookwang double-sided tape- Available from several sources on the web.

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