Happy Holidays with Brutus

For today's card, I really wanted to create a fun Christmas scene using Brutus from the Brutus and Friends stamp set. I went ahead and stamped out Brutus and then colored him in using colored pencils. I also stamped a little santa hat with a stamp I had on hand, and then I cut it out and adhered in onto Brutus using some foam adhesive. 

Now that Brutus was finished, I set him aside and started building my background. I took some Mowed Lawn Distress Ink and added some light grass to the bottom edges, and then I took some Tumbled Glass Distress Ink and inked the sky. I also used some snowflake stamps from the "Oh, Deer!" stamp set and stamped them in the sky. 

Then, I die cut some little trees and colored them with colored pencils, as well. I ripped a few pieces of vellum and adhered them to the front to make it look like snow banks. I glued the little trees around the vellum, and I also tucked Brutus behind the front vellum snowbank. 

For the sentiment and the candy canes in Brutus' dish, I grabbed my "Love You A Latte" stamp set from Lawn Fawn. The sentiment is stamped and embossed, and I stamped out multiple candy canes, die cut them, and colored them in. I then cut a little slit into the dog bowl and tucked two of the candy canes inside. 

I mounted the whole scene on a little red polka dot paper and then adhered all that down to my card base. The very last thing I did was I added some Stickles here and there for some Christmas sparkle. 

That finished the card! I love making cute little scenes and Brutus was just begging to be dressed up for Christmas. Its always a great way to stretch your stamps by mixing up sets to create what you need. 

Hope you enjoyed today's card and thanks so much for stopping by!

Until next time, 
Marie Nicole

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