Happy Howlidays

 I am howling over at Scrap'n Stamp Canada today with this card. I just love the stamp sets that I used on this card today, being My Favorite Things Deck the Howls and Trio of Trees.

I don't often use designer paper, yet I love these paper pads. This pad is a particularily fun one, with happy traditional and non traditional Christmas papers, even one with pink snow! But for this card I opted for a more traditional paper as I knew I wanted to pick up the other colours with my trees and dog. I happened to have the snow drifts already made and sitting on my desk when I started this card, so I included them in my design, cutting them along with the designer paper with my Wonky Stitch Rectangle. A task my Gemini has no problem doing. 

Using my Clarity Brushes I brushed on the Tumbled Glass Distress Ink lightly to the snow banks.  I mention these brushes as I note similar brushes in the store put out by Nuvo, which makes great products. I have linked to these brushes below. They are fabulous for stenciling and adding soft inking to cards. I have a few sets as I wanted a brush for each colour. 
In my Misti I stamped all of the images and cut as I wasn't sure what ones I would use. I stamped the dogs using Ranger Archival Ink in Sepia, along with the branch trees. The other trees I did using Picked Raspberry, Twisted Citron and Broken China. To paint the animals I laid down the colours of distress ink on my work surface and picked up the paint with my paintbrush to watercolour. 

 Once all was dried I arranged the pieces on my card then attached with glue or foam squares. I then added Nuvo Crystal Drops in Autumn Red and Oyster Grey. I painted lightly Tumbled Glass across the bottom, then painted over it with the white Pearl Colors. 

To finish I stamped my sentiment on the front using Memento Ink, then I moved to the inside of my card. Using the same Wonky Rectangles I cut the designer paper and a piece of cardstock for my sentiment. I used another of the dog images and a tree, and stamped the sentiment with the Memento Ink. I also added the Nuvo Crystals to the tree, and the dog is attached with foam squares.

I hope you have enjoyed this card today, and wish to thank you for dropping by. I have provided links to the products I have used at no cost to you, with both Canada then USA links.

  Canadian Scrap'n Stamp

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