{"id":30236,"date":"2019-12-06T17:35:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T17:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=30236"},"modified":"2019-12-06T17:35:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T17:35:15","slug":"another-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=30236","title":{"rendered":"Another competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Gray of the blog &#8220;Going Gently&#8221; has put out another competition. The last one I took part in was the postcard competition. This time he has a Christmas card competition. It started at the end of November and will be judged on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p>He is looking for the most original and says the more bizarre and different the better. The winner will be picked on Christmas Eve and the prize will be a robust donation to a charity in the winner&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p>John works in a hospice and and his only day off over the Christmas period is Christmas Eve so he wants to make it fun.<\/p>\n<p>The card I have adapted was a card that I saw when looking for a birthday card recently. John loves his dogs so this card appealed to me and I thought that I could adapt it to change it into a Christmas card. I am not going for bizarre but rather for the dog theme that fits in with John&#8217;s love of dogs.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly John lost his elderly black scottie dog and elderly welsh terrier during the last year but has recently adopted a young bulldog that was in need of a home. He has a youngish welsh terrier and an elderly bulldog too plus a black cat.<\/p>\n<p>For this reason I decided to stick a black scottie dog on the inside of the card which I\u00a0 already had in my Christmas tin of cards and labels.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30266\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=30266\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30266\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30266\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30266\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/inside-the-card.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/inside-the-card.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/inside-the-card-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/inside-the-card-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside the card<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_30267\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=30267\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30267\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30267\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30267\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/outside-of-the-card-before-i-transformed-it.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/outside-of-the-card-before-i-transformed-it.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/outside-of-the-card-before-i-transformed-it-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/outside-of-the-card-before-i-transformed-it-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The outside of the card before I adapted it<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_30268\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=30268\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30268\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30268\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30268\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/the-card-is-now-a-christmas-card.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/the-card-is-now-a-christmas-card.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/the-card-is-now-a-christmas-card-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/the-card-is-now-a-christmas-card-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The card is now a Christmas card<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have to say I am actually quite pleased with this. I realised that we don&#8217;t have any felt pens or anything suitable to colour with so I used some red and green paper that was part of a leaflet that came through the door and my white printing paper for the trim and bobble on the hat. I only had one chance at the hat as that was the biggest bit of red paper on the leaflet.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care about winning I just wanted to take part and I thought that John would appreciate a dog themed card. I posted my card this morning and I am feeling pleased that I made the effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gray of the blog &#8220;Going Gently&#8221; has put out another competition. The last one I took part in was the postcard competition. This time he has a Christmas card competition. 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