Happy Monday everyone! It's a blog hopping day with Kylie Bertucci's International Blog Highlight's Top Ten Winners. I want to give an extra big thank you to everyone who voted for my Wonderful Romance vellum card. It was enough to earn me a spot among a talented group of stampers. Grab a cup of something warm - or cold depending on you locale and enjoy!
I often do flowery cards for Kylie's blogging events so I thought I would switch it up a bit and use Happy Trails. This is a stamp set+ punch bundle in the Occasions catalog featuring a dog stamp set with a coordinating punch for the dog. It is great for creating cards for a number of occasions, including the loss of a beloved pet.
- You could say this was my warm up card. I wanted to figure out a good layout to use the Keep calm and wag on greeting and I liked the dog over a circle with the greeting on the left side of the circle.
- Though I used stitched dies for the shapes you could easily skip the dies and use a trimmer for the square and rectangle and the 2 1/4" circle punch.
- The dog is stamped and punched with Basic Gray with a little Night of Navy Twine for his collar.
- Night of Navy Happiness Blooms enamel dots provide a little extra embellishment.
Once I photographed this card I decided to try a few more things with it;
- I stamped another dog with Basic Gray ink on Smoky Slate card stock and used the Smoky Slate Blends combo to give him a little more dimension.
- I thought it would be fun to try a Wood Textures border die cut with the Delicate Lace Edgelets. It's a completely different look on wood and I kind of like it over the gray flannel plaid.
Moving on, I still wanted to do a pet sympathy card and decided to use Julie Tilman's Mojo Monday sketch:
The heart plays perfectly into the sympathy greeting: "a best friend leaves a paw print on your heart".
- First I needed a heart that wouldn't look more like a Valentine so I stayed with the Wood Textures paper, choosing this tone since I liked the warmth and it is (just barely) light enough to stamp the greeting in Early Espresso. Basic Gray would have worked too but I like the warmth of the Early Espresso.
- I used a leftover piece of the Smoky Slate Buffalo Check for the banner layer.
- I just used my trimmer for the Cajun Craze square drawing the stitches with a marker.
- The Basic Gray strip is textured with the Subtle embossing folder.
- I stamped the outline of a dog in the corner. I think it works if it somewhat resembles the dog, otherwise I would leave it off.
These aren't quite the feminine style I did for the earlier blog highlights are they?
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