Hi there everyone! I'm late, I'm late. But this card is finally done for the sketch challenge this week and I incorporated the Ways to Use It Technique from today.
I seriously didn't CASE Markiesmom on this, I promise! I completed the layout for this card and struggled with the dog collar until very late Tuesday night. I didn't have time to do the final assembly until tonight.
That stinkin' collar took me forever. Remind me to never crop-o-dial ribbon again!
I'd like to attribute the sheer weirdness that Faith and I would use the same dp to the fact that great minds think alike! LOL!
What is even weirder is that I very rarely look at a challenge gallery before I post a card. I guess I was trying to live vicariously through all you gals who had time to post cards before I did! And it was grand to see them all.
So now that we have these HUGE views of cards on SCS, you can clearly see all the mistakes I would correct if I were to do this again!
Putting eyelets on thin ribbon is a really, really bad idea. I can tell you that without hesitation!
Other than that, this stamped image is almost a snapshot of my beautiful dog, Blue. He has the bluest eyes you can imagine. I rescued him almost 2 years ago, so his name came with him. But he is so aptly named, I couldn't even have thunk to ask him to learn a new name!
The only thing that might not be evident from the photo of this card is that I used watercolor pencils on a 2nd stamped image on watercolor paper, then cut them out to pop them up on dimensionals over the original stamped image. Blue embossed the eyes and then went over that with a darker blue sparkle gel pen. Because my dog Blue truly sparkles! (Peggy is gonna' love the blue in this, isn't she?!!! LOL)
Thanks for the challenges and thanks for looking!
M
Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008 GMT Views: 855
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Registered: March 11, 2008 Location: Sacramento, California Posts: 39766
Thu, Nov 13, 2008 @ 10:50 PM
Such a sweeeeet card we have here! Love that blue eyed doggie! Very nice card! TFS :0)
------------------------------ Cathy B aka: Mutnik ....or is it Nutmeg?! I get so confused!
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Fri, Nov 14, 2008 @ 4:06 AM
OH, this is sooooooooooo cute!!!
P.S. I tried to use the eyelets on mine and it hacked up the felt ribbon so bad that I decided to turn the colar around so the *clip* was on the back! LOL!
Registered: November 5, 2007 Location: Hamilton, ON, Canada Posts: 13629
Fri, Nov 14, 2008 @ 4:31 AM
This is perfect - even if it did take you a long time to do the collar. It looks wonderful with those sweet images. I like how his ear flops outside of the square! So cute!
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