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Polkadoodles Kitty Fishes Holiday Card

Holiday card featuring Polkadoodles Kitty Fishes digital stamp, colored with Caran d'Ache Luminance 6901 pencils, by Paperesse.

How's your 2025 crafting going? I've actually got a few makes done. I've been housebound with the flu and since coloring doesn't take a whole lot of energy to do or require me to get dressed I've been indulging. Today's post is the last of my 2024 projects – a French holiday best wishes card. 

This Polkadoodles Kitty Fishes digi just makes me smile so to accompany it I decided to reuse the humorous sentiment from this cat themed holiday cardThe French pun comes from the expression 'Nos pensées les plus chaleureuses' which means 'Our warmest thoughts' and you'd use it to let someone know you're thinking of them. The 'cha–' sound at the beginning of 'chaleureuses' sounds a lot like the 'cha–' sound in 'chat' which means 'cat'. So...'Nos pensées les plus chat–leureuses' is playing on the cat image. It's hard for me to come up with punny sentiments in French so I'm always proud of myself when I do.

The paper is from EMF's 333 Colorful Christmas origami paper block. I've dressed it up with ribbon and matt enamel dots.

Supply List
Paper – cardstock, EMF 333 Origami Colorful Christmas paper block
Digital stamp – Polkadoodles Kitty Fishes
Dies – Die-namic's square stax
Embellishments – ribbon, matt enamel dots
Font – DJB Coffee Shoppe Espresso 
Caran d'Ache Luminance 6901 pencils
Gelly Roll .08 white pen
Pentel .05 black fine line pen

I'm linking up with the following challenges: Kleuren met Potloden (Coloring with Pencils) January – ATG colored with pencils,  Allsorts Challenge 815 – Close to Nature/ATG, Polkadoodles Challenge 2 – ATG, Digi Chooseday Challenge 1 – ATG, The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge #175 – ATG Christmas, Creative Knockouts #539 – Something to Say. 

4 comments

  1. Anonymous18/1/25 21:07

    Absolutely so darling and again with the perfect papers. You've just ignited my desire to get my pencils out (been working on a junk journal). Off I go to find an image. Hope you are feeling better!

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  2. A very sweet image for tour pretty Christmas card, many thanks for joining in at Allsorts challenge.

    B x

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  3. A cute kitty - thank you for joining us at Allsorts

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  4. Hello and happy new year. The card is beautiful and the well colored image is very sweet. You have combined some very colorful and harmonious cards. Thanks for joining Polkadoodles Taty x DT

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