Sunday Snippets - 'Santa Dudley'!

A dear friend sent me a stamp a little while ago, saying it reminded her of Dudley and so it fell into her online shopping basket!  And how right she is, he is indeed very much like Dudley and I made this card using it as my snippets card for this week:

And the leftover snippets!

I used:

- 5.5" x 4.25" white card blank, side opening 

- a backgound snippet of Tonic pearlescent 'Majestic Gold' card, trimmed to 5.25" x 4" and glued onto the card front before being set aside for later

- then trimmed a piece of the same white card as used for the card blank down to 5" x 3.75" ready for Dudley's lookalike

- stamped the Dudley onto the bottom of the card using a VersaFine 'Morning Mist' ink pad and the adorable unbranded and gifted stamp, plus coloured his nose using a black fineline pen rather than leave it grey

- then stamped the coat area of the dog onto a snippet of plain red paper from a LOTV discontinued paper pad and also part of the area onto a snippet of Tonic 'Majestic Gold' card

- fussy cut the doggie coat and the gold fastening from the stamped snippets and paper pieced/glued them onto the image

- then worked out where the sentiment would fit and used VersaFine 'Nocturne' ink and a discontinued Clearly Besotted 'Say  What?' stamp to stamp a little sentiment directly onto the card front

- the hat was next, and I used another snippet of the same LOTV paper as the coat, plus a snippet of sparkly white card to die cut three little dies for the Santa hat using a NBUS Gummiapan 'Santa Hat' die set - I think it's the large sized one!

- glued those in place then glued the image panel on top of the gold panel - and called it done!

Naturally, the camera was mucking around with the sparkly white fur trims on the hat in the photo! Please just squint and imagine the dimension and shimmer I can see in real life! I had to perch the Santa hat quite jauntily and high up on 'Dudley's head' ...... so that at least one of his eyes was showing. This card is destined for 'Tilly the Corgi' who lives sort of behind us/next door - I keep telling him he's punching above his weight but he just won't listen!  

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Allsorts Challenge #836 - HERE. The theme is ' Christmas Cards'

Darnell's NBUS Challenge #80 - HERE. The unbranded  'Dudley' stamp and the Gummiapan 'Santa Hat' die were having their first outing

Dudley Pupdate: Once again, the weather hasn't been to Dudley's liking for much of the week. We did have one day when our usual guy came to trim all the front bushes and trees plus some still standing after we went 'easy care gardening' at the back of the house. Naturally, Dudley was almost past himself 'shouting' at John to 'Go away there's nothing worth stealing here' for almost four hours. Joined by Tilly also shouting from their lounge window at one point when John was trimming the honeysuckles winding around our arbour - just within her line of sight!! 

Thankfully it was all done days days before the usual signal that Honka Duck was causing Dudley to be sick. So, we did the ritual of taking and hiding old Honka ready for his journey to the great duck pond in the sky. And swiftly popping 'Honka 11th' in his place. I will never, ever get used to the initial look of utter loss and despair when Dudley realises that old Homks has gone - even though there's a brand new one placed exactly where he last dropped the old one before making a dash for the back door. However. he's already adjusting within 24 hours and has given new Honks a bit of a welcome licking session already - thankfully!

Very importantly, the results of Challenge #518 are now published HERE . 

Do please come and play in Sarn's current challenge over in the Snippets Playground - just scroll down from the results post. Bring your wellies and even waterwings - we've had rain almost non-stop recently!

Love from myself and Dudley, xxx