Candy Cane Bartles

I have a clean and simple Christmas card to share today, featuring a cute pup stamp from Purple Onion called 'Bartles'. I stamped him onto a snippet of watercolour paper, coloured him using watercolour pencils, then carefully cut him out. I added a snippet of striped paper from the 'Home for Christmas' pad by Violet studio along the bottom edge of a kraft card blank, and a sentiment, using a stamp from the 'Santa's Sweets' set by Penny Black, then popped Bartles on top using 3D foam pads.

Challenges for this card:

• 52 Christmas Card Throwdown - Candy Canes
• Allsorts - Anything Goes
• Crafts Galore Encore - Anything Goes
• Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes
• Rudolph Days - Anything Christmas Goes
• Simon Says Stamp (Wednesdays) - Anything Goes
• Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes

Candy Cane Bartles

Today's card features a cute little pup stamp from Purple Onion called 'Bartles'. I stamped him onto a snippet of watercolour paper, added a sentiment from the 'Santa's Sweets' set by Penny Black, then coloured him using watercolour pencils. For the background, I used papers from the 'Jolly Santa' pad from The Works, distressing the edges a little and adding some faux stitching using my CutterBee Bug and a black gel pen.

Challenges for this card:

• 52 Christmas Card Throwdown - Critters
• A Perfect Time to Craft - Anything Goes
• Crafts Galore Encore - Anything Goes
• Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
• Creative Inspirations - Stars and/or Stripes
• Simon Says Stamp (Mondays) - Stitch It
• Simon Says Stamp (Wednesdays) - Cute Critters

Doggo & Mousy Winter Walk

Today's card features a new (to me) stamp by Purple Onion called 'Doggo & Mousy Winter Walk'. I stamped it on to a snippet of watercolour paper, coloured it using watercolour pencils, then carefully cut it out. I used a snippet of snowy sky paper (from the 'Christmas' pad by Craft Sensations) for the background, adding a snippet of white card, torn along its top edge, for the snowy ground, before matting it on to some grey card and adding it to a card blank. The sentiment stamp is from an old Lili of the Valley set.

Challenges for this card:

• 2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Anything Goes
• Cardz for Guys - CAS
• Crafty Animals - Anything Goes
• Gem of a Challenge - Anything Goes
• Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes