Merry Christmas!

Hi everyone.  I have this wonderful stamp that was gifted to me by my very good friend, Susan.  She loves dogs and has a beautiful English Spaniel, Tessa who she brings with her when we get together to stamp. :)  She gave me this stamp not long after we adopted Jessie.  I made two special Christmas cards using this sweet image ... one for Susan, and one for my dog walker, Emily. :)

I stamped the image onto tan mixed media paper using archival brown ink.  I used my Prismacolor pencils to colour the dogs before restamping overtop to add more depth of colour.  It took me a while to figure out the design for this card.  It all came together when I found some lovely Christmas paper in my stash using the same tan and red from the main image. :)

Second card with a slightly different layout ...

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Stamps:  King Charles Spaniel (Hunkydory); Merry Messages (Lawn Fawn

Paper:   White card stock (Neenah 110 lb.); Tan Mixed Media paper (Strathmore 140 lb.); "A Gingerbread Christmas" patterned paper (Echo Park)
Ink:   Potting Soil Archival ink (Ranger); DOX Candied Apple ink (Tim Holtz)
Accessories:   Prismacolor pencils (Arteza),