Hello, Poppystamps friends! I am excited to be back on the blog today sharing some adorable new products! This "Sitting Dachshund" is just one of several new dachshund dies. Isn't he so handsome with his sweater and hat? And the sentiment is just perfect!
To start my card today, I fussy cut a snowbank shape out of masking paper and masked the bottom of a white A2 card base. I blended the sky with three shades of blue ink and removed the mask to reveal the pristine snow underneath.
I cut my little pup from two different colors of card stock - brown and black. I glued the top black layer to the bottom brown layer. I did add in a white eyeball. I glued on a black ear and then adhered my Santa hat on top. I cut the sweater using paper from the Gladiola Plaid Paper Pack from Memory Box. Before adhering my pup to the snowbank, I took a light blue alcohol marker and added some shadows underneath where he would be. After finishing up with the pup, I moved on to the sentiment. I cut it from both white and red card stock, and then I adhered the red layer to the white layer with a slight offset. I love creating drop shadow effects like this with word dies.
I held off on adhering the sentiment to the card base because I wanted to make sure it didn't overlap any of the snowflakes that I planned on adding. These snowflakes are actually new rub ons from Memory Box! I really only planned on adding a few, but it gets a little addicting and before I knew it, the entire sky was full! Once I was done, I glued down my sentiment. To finish the scene, I added the adorable Nordic Dimple Trees, along with the Nordic Dimpled Tree Toppers. These trees are so sweet! Just like with the pup, I added some shading both on the trees and below the trees with a light blue alcohol marker.
I love how this card turned out, and I hope it brings a smile to your face. Thanks for joining us today.
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