A Rainbow of Spaniels and Santa Hats

It's time to remind you about April's CAS Christmas challenge, "Rainbow".  I've done a rainbow of spaniels wearing Santa hats.

English Cocker spaniels come in a huge range of colours - 23 different colours or colour mixes in fact!!  I've had three different ones - a blue roan, a liver roan, and my present sweet Tessa who is orange roan.  So I coloured the dogs on my card in a variety of colours.

And for the rainbow challenge, I did their hats and little gifts in the traditional rainbow of colours.  And then added those colours below them to ground them.

A simple sentiment and a black border, a bit of fun foam to add dimension, and the card was done.

Please come and join us with your Christmas card using "rainbow" as the theme - you have until April 24th to link up.  There is more inspiration from the Design Team over at CAS Christmas.

I'm also linking up with:

Day of the Month Card Club's challenge "Find a Rainbow Day".

Penny Black Saturday Challenge "Cute".

Supplies:
Stamps - Penny Black
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne
Paper - white and black cs
Size - 6.25x3.25" mini slimline
Accessories - coloured pencils, fun foam

Framed Spaniels

Just Us Girls is asking us to add a frame to our cards.

 

 

I needed to make a thank you card for my dog breeder so decided to frame the two dogs.

 

 

I stamped and fussy cut the two spaniels - one looks like Tessa and is in her colouring, and the other looks like dear old Will who passed away two years ago.  I die cut the pierced frame die three times and glued them together to give substance to the frame.

Here's a photo of the two of them together - Tessa still a puppy, Will a tired old fellow - but they loved to snuggle together.

I sure do miss sweet Will.

Supplies:
Stamps - Grey Wolf Graphics dog stamp, Raintree dog stamp, Memory Box sentiment
Ink - Archival Jet Black, Distress Vintage Photo
Paper - white cs
Size - 5.25" square
Accessories - MFT pierced square frame die

Dogs Running on Ribbon

The Jingle Belles Christmas card challenge wants to see cards that incorporate ribbon.

I had a great scrap of paw-printed ribbon that I decided to pair with one of my favourite Christmas stamps.

Stamped, watercoloured, the strip of ribbon to ground the dogs, and a black sentiment border die cut on the top.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies:
Stamps - Penny Black
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - watercolour paper, black and white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Penny Black sentiment die, paw print ribbon

Dogs Running on Ribbon

I'm back with a reminder card for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge - I'm thrilled to be their Guest Designer this month.  It's Anything Goes - Optional "Use Ribbon or Twine".  So I opted to use ribbon as a way to ground my parade of Christmas dogs.

A quick CAS card!  Stamped, watercoloured, a strip of paw print ribbon to ground the pups, and a border of black die cut on the top with the sentiment die.

Thank you, Penny Black Saturday Challenge, for inviting me to Guest Design this month!

 
I'm also linking up with the Color Throwdown.  They want red, black, grey, and white.

Supplies:
Stamps - Penny Black
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - watercolour paper, black and white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Penny Black sentiment die, paw print ribbon

A Rainbow of Spaniels

Time to remind you to create a card for CAS Watercolour using this month's theme:

Many of you know that I have two English Cocker Spaniels but I bet few of you know that English Cockers come in a wide spectrum of colours, probably more than any other breed - there are over 20 colours allowed under kennel club breed standards.  Breeders often talk about the rainbow of English Cocker colours.  So a stamp that features them seems appropriate for a rainbow challenge.

I stamped on hot press watercolour paper and watercoloured with Gansai Tambi paints.  There were enough Santa hats, gifts, balloon, etc. that I could get all the colours of the rainbow in there.  Then I decided to repeat the rainbow under them to ground them.

I added a sentiment featuring the word "merry" since the English Cocker has historically been referred to as the "merry cocker" due to their happy playful personality.

I added a very thin black border and popped it up on fun foam on a rustic cream cardbase.  I went over the pompoms and brims of the hats with a Quickie glue pen and added glitter.  Here's a close-up:

Please come on over to CAS Watercolour and check out the rest of the inspiration from the Design Team and our Guest Designer, Hannelie of the Desert Diva blog.  You have until May 24th to link up a clean and simple card that uses a rainbow of some sort.

Supplies:

Stamps - Penny Black dogs and sentiment

Ink - Ranger Archival Jet Black

Paper - hot press watercolour paper, PTI rustic cream cs, black cs

Size - 6.25x3.25"

Accessories - Gansai Tambi watercolour paints, glitter, fun foam

Favourite Stamps

Addicted to CAS used a code word for their challenge:

I had a very hard time choosing my favourite, but in the end went with a stamp of an English Cocker Spaniel (the breed of my dogs, and since they are my favourite little furry beings, I thought a stamp of them should be my favourite stamp).

Here's the two of them:

I stamped them in inks representing their colours and fussy cut them.  Then grounded them by stamping the sentiment below and added a bit of faint stenciling behind them for interest.

I'm giving the card to friends who are going to look after them when I'm away.

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