As previously mentioned, Christmas in July is a thing in the crafting community. This week at AAA Cards challenge blog, the theme is ‘anything CAS goes’ with the optional twist of Christmas (pets) in July. I’m not a fan of the whole Christmas thing, especially starting in July, and am renowned for being a little bah humbug about the whole thing! So this card suitably sums up my state of mind…

I started by stamping the dog, then hand-drawing the Santa hat trying to emulate the sketchy style of the dog. I designed the sentiment stamp and engraved and cut it out on my Glowforge laser cutter from laser safe rubber. Then I coloured everything with alcohol markers so that I could build up the shading. Oh, and I used a stamping platform to get the stamping nicely black, stamping several times, reinking each time.

Used for this bah humbug card

• Stampers Anonymous / Tim Holtz rubber stamp: Crazy Dogs
• Sentiment: self-designed and manufactured
• Memento ink pad: Tuxedo Black
• Letraset / Winsor & Newton ProMarkers:
  • Cool Grey: 1 / 3 / 4
  • Black
  • Lipstick Red / Berry Red
  • Yellow / Gold
• Sakura Pigma Micron black pigment pen (08)
• Stix2 cling rubber stamp mount
• C6 card blank