Christmas Pooch

Over at The 12 Months of Christmas Link Up it is the Merry Maidens turn to showcase some fabulous Christmas cards.

The optional Twist for this challenge is 'Flip A Coin'  The paper pack Eclectic Mix 1 designed by Decosse's Dynamite Doodles is up for grabs to the lucky winner who follows the twist.

If you want the chance to win this month's featured paper pack, be sure to create a card that features the twist and state in your post which of the options came up when you flipped the coin.

This month we are sponsored by All Dressed Up 

For my card I have used this cute little doggie Christmas Pooch. I have decided he is called Patch because of the patch on his eye. He has the most adorable sweater and is  'All Dressed Up' ready for Christmas.

I have coloured Patch with Promarkers & Flexmarkers and added some texture to the fur using as blender pen.

As I don't have access to a colour printer at the moment I have scanned in the image and used it to make a digital card.

My Coin Flip recipe is as follows:-

1 - Tails - Make card with 4 or more layers

2 - Heads - Square card

3 - Heads - Dots (also incorporated stripes)

4 - Heads - Lace or Ribbon (made ribbon from the striped paper rotated)

5 - Tails - Real or faux stitching (used stitched paper)

For the layout I have used Sketch 187 from Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2

I use a program called Affinity Designer on the Mac and created a square card. I used the darker green from the spotty paper as the accent for matting and layering throughout. I used 3 of the papers from Eclectic Mix 1. The colours are lovely and although it is a much more subtle colour palette than I would usually use for a Christmas card it has really come out so well and I am pleased with it.  

The main background is Dots, the secondary paper behind Patch is the zig zag and I used Horizontal stripes as a ribbon by rotating it and cropping.

I used a holly embellishment from Scrapgirls. I created a copy and flipped it so it looked like a bow.

The final touch was adding the glittery snowflakes from Snow Much Fun

The sentiment is from Ginger's House. There are so many freebies on this blog.  The blog has not been updated since 2017 but there are hundreds of sentiments on there. If you have not visited I would strongly recommend that you take a look at how many really high quality free sentiments are on there.

I do hope you will take part in our challenge and look forward to seeing your creations.

Digital Supplies Used :  

Image -  Christmas Pooch by All Dressed Up Coloured with Promarkers, & Gel Pens

Papers - Eclectic Mix 1 pack by Decosse's Dynamite Doodles.

Sentiment - Ginger's House

Embellishments - Snow Much Fun Glitter Snowflakes by Decosse's Dynamite Doodles & holly embellishment by Scrapgirls

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order)

• 2 Crafty Critter Crazies - #40 Anything Goes with a Critter

• 613 Avenue Create – #235 Anything Goes

• A Bit More Time To Craft - #120 Anything Goes

• A Perfect Time To Craft - #7 Anything Goes

• A Bit More Time To Craft Extra – Anything Goes

• ABC Christmas Challenge – O is for Over The Top

• All Dressed Up - #107 Anything Goes with an ADU Image

• All Fun Challenges - #11 Anything Goes

• Angie’s Digital Stamps - #44 Anything Goes

• Arty Divas - #26 Anything Goes /Christmas in July

• Aud Sentiments  – #255 Christmas in July

• CD Sunday Plus - # 39 Anything Goes

• Christmas With The Cuties - # 39 2 or More Patterned Papers

• Classic Design Challenge - # 7 Anything Goes

• Corrosive Challenges - #7 Anything Goes

• Crafter’s Castle - #31 Anything Goes

• Crafting Happiness - #57 Anything Goes

• Crafts Galore Encore – #77 Anything Goes

• Crafty Creations  – #411 Anything Goes

• Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge - #498 Anything Goes/Use some Red

• Crafty Sentiments Designs – Anything Goes

• Cutie Pie Challenges – #149 Delightful Digi Stamps

• Dare 2B Artzy – Christmas in July

• Di’s Digi Designs – Christmas in July

• Digi Choosday - #28 Anything Goes

• I Love Promarkers - #414 Christmas in July

• Ike’s World Challenge - #134 Anything Goes / Show us Christmas

• Jan’s Digi Stamps - Anything Goes

• My Time To Craft - #436 Christmas in July

• Passion For Promarkers - #551 Animal Antics

• Pattie’s Creations Design Challenge – #172 Anything goes

• {Pin}spirational - #267 Christmas & Doggie from image as inspiration

• Polkadoodles - #28 Anything Goes

• QKR Stampede – #401 Anything Goes

• Stinkin’ Inkers – I See Spots

• Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2  - Card Layout

• Winter Wonderland – Create a square card

• World Wide Open Design Team Challenge - #07 Anything Goes

• Your Scrapbook Place - Anything Goes