No candy canes for you, buddy! Sweet as they may be, these are for decorative purposes only.
As with this card from last week, stampers at last month’s Jingle Jump used a Stamparatus to get the coat of this furry friend a deep black. Never used a Stamparatus? This “stamp positioner” can help line up two images (as in two-step stamping) or stamp one image multiple times in exactly the same place for complete ink coverage. Of course, stampers have discovered tricks and techniques that make this quite a wonderful tool to have close at hand as you are creating. (And wouldn’t it make a fabulous gift!)
We could have left the white background plain, but a subtle, overall pattern made it much more interesting. I use this Tasteful Textile embossing folder on lots of projects. (Click here for a slightly different version of this card.)
There is a stamp for the bow, but I couldn’t resist a polka-dotted bow punched from the same Sweetest Christmas Designer Series Paper as the candy cane pattern. Life is better with dots, wouldn’t you agree?
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