One of my crafty YT friends, Cathy (YT: Huckleberry Herbs and Art) asked crafty friends to make something that involved “a favorite thing.” For me, that meant something celebrating puppies! YAY!  I am not normally a scene card maker, but I have had this idea of multiple scenes on a card bopping around in my head for a long time sooo….
I created a card on which the front would be the interior of a home with a dog peering out of a window. I used the Art Impressions “Mini Front and Back Cat and Dog” stamp set for the back side of the pup on the card front. I also colored up an extra one of the fronts so I could create a black and white puppy portrait to “hang on the wall”. To make the scale right, I had to add a chair for the tiny pup to stand on to get a view out of the window, and I was lucky to find a chair image from the same Prima “Lady Bird” paper collection that I used for the tone on tone chevron “wallpaper.” I colored up the sketch of the chair with the following Tim Holtz Distress Markers: Vintage Photo, Tea Dye, Cracked Pistachio and Mowed Lawn and then fussy cut it out with scissors and an Xacto knife. I also fussy cut out the portrait frame from an older Recollections paper stack simply called Printed Scrapbook Papers. For the centerpiece window, I used the Diemond Dies Window Dies Set and again used my Xacto blade to cut through the entire card front.
For the reverse side of the card front, I created a scene of the outside of the home. I used the Tim Holtz stencil called Bricked and blended on Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Fired Brick and Tea Dye. I die cut out another Diemond Dies Window Die and positioned it so that the puppy looked like he was peering out of the window. I also used the Diemond Dies Shutter Die and the Window Box Die to fill out the scene. I added lots of tiny paper flowers that I had in my stash, painting the burgundy ones with “Baby Pink” Plaid acrylic paint to soften the color. I used gold Ranger Liquid Pearls to add shiny centers to the flowers.
Finally, for the scene of puppies celebrating summer and partying in the dog park (and hopefully inviting and enticing the puppy inside to join them! LOL), I used an old cloud patterned paper from my stash. To make the grassy background, I used white card stock inked with Tim Holtz Mowed Lawn and Twisted Citron Distress Inks and die cut with a My Favorite Things “Grassy Hills” die set. For the sandy playground foreground, I inked up more white card stock with Tim Holtz Tea Dye and Antique Linen Distress Inks and die cut the back edge with the Lawn Fawn “Stitched Hillside” die set. Then for the playground equipment, the tree, and the spotted dog on the slide, I used the Lawn Fawn “Let’s Play” stamp set, fussy cutting each piece out (rather than using the coordinating dies that I actually have) because I didn’t want the white edge around each image. For the small bush and the upper left side of the tree, I also used the cloud from the Lawn Fawn “Hello Baby” stamp set and just colored them up like greenery. The other dogs at play are all from the Clearly Besotted “Playful Pooches” stamp set. I love how all the pups seemed too coordinate so nicely even though they were from three different stamp companies!
The following are all the Copic colors I used:
AI Puppy:Â E13, 15, 97 and 99 (brown body) and C0 and 1 (white paws and face)
AI Puppy in Portrait: W3 and 5Â with N4 for background
LF Puppy on Slide: N0, 2 and 4
Pug on Teeter Totter: N3, 5, 7 (dark face) and Y11, 13, 21 and 26 (fawn-colored body)
Spotted dog on Teeter Totter: E31, 35 and 39 (spots); N0, 1, 3, and 0 (white body); and R20 (tongue)
Frisbee dog: E70, 71, 74 and 79 (dog); R30, 20 and 32 with RV21, 23 and 25 (ears and frisbee)
Fluffy dog in center of playground: E51, 21, 97 and 99 with BG32 and 45 (collar)
Sniffing dog by tree: E51, 53 and 55 with R20 (tongue)
Tree tops and bush: YT13, 25 and 17
Finally the upper right side of this inside scene seemed a little empty so I created a rainbow using the Diemond Dies Die-Normous Stack-Ems Circle Nesting Die Set. I cut out several rings with 7 adjacent circle dies and tucked in one end of the rings behind the tree top.  The other side pf the rings just cleared the edge of the card so I simply cut off the overhang so it would look like the rainbow continued off the card.  To color up each of the rings, I used the following Copic colors: R24 and 29; YR04; Y19; YG07 and 07; B24 and 18; V17.  I repeated these same colors to color up the playground equipment because I thought the bright colors added to the cheerfulness of the card, and I wanted to repeat the same colors for a cohesive look on the card.
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The following is a video sharing the design of the card as well as a process video of coloring up the pug (by request):
This multi-scene card is being entered into the following challenges:
Lawnscaping Patterned Palooza Challenge
Simon Says Stamp Monday Celebrate Challenge
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Fabulous Florals Challenge
MarkerPOP Create a Scene Challenge
Word Art Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge
Card Mania Let’s Party Challenge
613 Avenue Create Anything Goes Challenge
Craft Your Passion Anything Goes Challenge
Creatalicious Anything Goes Challenge
Addicted to Stamps – Photo Inspiration – Do What You Love – Don’t wait inside waiting for an invitation; join in the fun and celebrate life! Â Play with dogs–as many as you can find! LOL
This is so AWESOME!
Awww thanks so very much! TFStopping by and your sweet and encouraging comment! Hugs, Kristina
Wow! That’s a lot of work. It turned out amazing!
Thanks so much Kathy! TFStopping by and your sweet and encouraging comment! Hugs, Kristina
Adorable!! What a cute little scene! Thanks for playing with us at Craft Your Passion!
Carolyn, DT
Thanks again Carolyn! It was really like making 3 cards in one to make all those scenes, but I really enjoyed every one! 😀 Big hugs, Kristina
Adorable multi scene! Great work! I love these cute budies.
Thanks for playing with us at Card mania challenge!
Dess ^.^
Awww thanks so much Dess! I had so much fun making up the little story with the three scenes. 🙂 TFStopping by and your sweet and encouraging comment! Hugs, Kristina
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this card is ADORABLE!! it’s literally a work of art! the attention to detail and cute cute CUTE scenes are sooooo incredible! wow!! Thank you SO much for playing along with the Lawnscaping Challenge! 🙂
Awww thank you so very much Samantha! I had so much fun creating this card. I hope it was ok that I used other stamp company sets with those adorable Lawn Fawn stamps and dies for this challenge. TFStopping by and your sweet and encouraging comment! Hugs, Kristina
I can’t think of another word other than adorable! I am in love with the card. I can’t believe that you put so much time and effort into making this great card. It is fabulous and I love it!
Barb B. CZT
Oh my gosh, Barb, that is soooo sweet of you! I did put in a lot of time into this card, but I truly enjoyed every minute! 🙂 Don’t you love it when you see your ideas come to life as you imagined they might? 🙂 TFStopping by and your sweet and encouraging comment! Hugs, Kristina
I love the simplicity and clean look of your blog. And getting the emails is such a help to remember to come over and look over all your amazing art for inspiration. Thanks for all the work you put into your lovely blog! xoxo Jen
Thank you so much Jen! I really appreciate you taking the time to come over, take a peek and leave such kind and encouraging comments. I try to respect folks’ time so I send out the email newsletters only once a week (I get so much email that I have recently started to unsubscribe from email newsletters that seem to flood me with content daily–sometimes multiple times a day!). LOL Anyway, I hope all is well with you and you are enjoying some crafty time (I think I have two of your videos in my YT watch later cue so I can watch them when I next get some time between work projects). 🙂 Big hugs, Kristina
Now this is so cute! I wouldn’t want to send it to anyone. lol I love it!
Awww you are so sweet. I am giving this to the trainer that works with me and my Bandito in agility. 🙂 While she isn’t a crafter, I know she’ll appreciate it since it was made with so much puppy love! 🙂 TFStopping by and your sweet and encouraging comment! Hugs, Kristina
Wow!!! This is awesome project! Beautiful card! Adorable images! So much work was put to create this beautiful scene card – really love it! Simply stunning!
Thank you so much for sharing your great work with us at 613 Avenue Create this week. Good luck and hope to see you next time too!
Sasha
Thank you so very much, Sasha! Working on this multi-scene card was truly a labor of love. I enjoyed every minute of it (even though there were a LOT of minutes LOL). TFStopping by and your sweet and encouraging comment! Hugs, Kristina
Oh my gosh,this is so GORGEOUS! Love,love,love the whole card and the story you’ve created with it,it’s simply stunning!!
Thanks so much Ann! It took me a while, but I loved every minute of making this. 🙂 Big hugs, Kristina
Your cards are adorable! I went through your blog and love your cute cards!! 🙂 Thanks for playing with us at ATSM! 🙂
Thank you so much Suchi! That is so kind of you! I so appreciate you taking the time to look through my other blog posts! WOW I’m humbled and grateful! Big hugs, Kristina
What a fabulous card…so much wonderful detail and I love the design, it’s gorgeous! Thank you so much for sharing and for playing along with us over on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog… 🙂
Thank you so much Emma! I had so much fun thinking up and creating this multi-scene card. It was truly a project of love. 🙂 TFStopping by and taking the time to leave such a kind and encouraging comment! Hugs, Kristina
Eeeeeekkkk!! This is so cute as well.. You totally Rocked this Create a scene challenge. Thanks for joining us at markerpop!
Awww thanks bunches Holly! I had so much fun making the various scenes for this card challenge entry. And my love of dogs I think really came through. LOL hehehe tfstopping by! Big furry hugs, Kristina
What an adorable of pups! Just darling- thanks so much for joining us at Addicted to Stamps and More!
Thank you so much Lee Ann! Once I started working on this card design and all those cute puppies, I couldn’t stop! 😀 tfstopping by! Big hugs, Kristina
Goodness, what amazing card – love everything about them.
Thanks for joining in at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge this week.
Big hugs,
Caryn xxx
Awww thanks so very much Caryn! It was so much fun designing and creating this card. My dog agility instructor loved it! 🙂 tfstopping by! Hugs, Kristina