Unto Us A Child Is Born

Hello my friends! It has a whirlwind couple of days here. Our fur-baby Rosie's ear-drum ruptured quite unexpectedly and it has been a nightmare, more so for her than for us. The poor thing is in so much pain and there's little we can do except keep her well medicated until we have it treated. She has a mass in her ear and we had scheduled to have it removed just after Christmas so we'll be home with her 24/7 while she recuperated. Late Tuesday night all that changed with this painful twist to the tale! In the meantime we've been trying to do our best to keep her comfortable. This morning we had a CAT scan to assess the extent of the damage and to plan for the surgery, which now is a whole lot more complicated than just removing a mass. There hasn't been time for much of anything really. Right now it's all about our 10-year old, overweight, snoring, belching, farting and extremely affectionate baby-dog. There's no one quite like her. I know she's in pain although she doesn't really complain. She just shivers uncontrollably as soon the pain meds wear off. It's heartbreaking. And so soon after Xiara! I was planning on keeping this post brief but I just had to let it out. Hope you don't mind. I won't bore you with too many details.

Here's a card I made very late last night. It helped me stay awake for Rosie. I was so impressed by Debbie's black and white Christmas card for the Tuesday Morning Sketches that I just had to have a go myself.  Check out her blog, Debbie's Dash of This and That, for more crafty creations. She's a genius with vinyl, I tell ya!

My version of a black & white Christmas looks like this:

The patterned papers are from Papermania's "Liquorice & Sherbert" A4 pad.  This paper collection is as non-Christmas as you can get! The image and sentiment are from Chocolate Baroque's "Peace on Earth" stamp set. I heat embossed the greeting on black CS with metallic gold EP.

 I used TH's Black Soot ink to stamp the image and outlined the tree, building etc with Kuretake Metallic Gold pen. Then I layered it on some shimmery black CS (not obvious in the photo)

For embellies, I used sheer white ribbon and 4 gold brads. There are 2 gold brads at the top left hand corner, hidden under that poofy bow.

On the inside I used Memento Tuxedo Black to stamp the greeting from Chocolate Baroque's "Warm  Christmas Greetings" clear stamp set.

I'm sharing my card with: Tuesday Morning Sketches #176 with a twist "Non traditional Christmas"; 52 Christmas Card Throwdown December Colour Challenge "Black, White, Metallic"; Holly Jolly Christmas "Metallic Christmas"; Just Add Ink #148 "Just Add Christmas" Make It Monday #120 "Anything Goes" and WordArt Wednesday #58 "Anything Goes". I didn't use the given wordart, opting instead for an uplifting "greeting"  from Isaiah 9:6, which was then gloriously fulfilled in Luke 2:11.

I'm off to see to Rosie. Time for some pain relief. I'll do some visiting later today when I get a mo. Thank you so much to stopping by and for listening to me unload. I'll see you tomorrow for Card 7 of my Holiday Mini Bailout series.

Beijinhos!


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