As my last design team project post for Topflight Stamps, I wanted to share some doggy cards. The adorable Pug dog from the Carabelle-Studio “To Be Or Not To Be” stamp set has such personality, I knew the moment I saw it, that it would be perfect for a slew of occasions for any dog lover.
For my first card, the hipster glasses and the adorable wrinkles on the Pug’s forehead, seemed to scream out for a partial, top-only stamping with a cute accompanying saying, “Just popping up to say…” with the inside of the card saying, “Happy Birthday!” (or it could be finished off with so many other sayings, like “Hello!” or “Surprise!”) (the sentiments are from the Neat & Tangled “Out of the Box” stamp set).
I kept the vast majority of the card front crisp white, and Copic colored the image (E51, E53, W5, W7, and B41), including reflection lines on the eye glasses with a Uniball Signo White Gel Pen. I also added Black Sakura Glaze Pen for the eye glass frames and Ranger Glossy Accents for the eye glasses.
For the second card, I wanted to play off the concerned expression of the Pug so I used a sentiment from the Mama Elephant “In My Heart” stamp set that says: “MISS YOU more than just a little.” Because I wanted to keep this card super simple, I used VersaMark Ink and Ranger Super Fine Black Embossing Powder to stamp the image and the sentiment. Then, to add a pop of color, I heat embossed a little heart by the sentiment and the eye glass frames with Ranger Adirondack Brights Watermelon Pigment Ink and clear embossing powder. This bit was somewhat tricky in that I had to hand fussy cut the inside and outside of the eye glass frames and then heat emboss this tiny, delicate piece; but it was well worth the extra effort for this added dimension and interest.
For the third and final card, again, compliments the Pug dog’s worried expression. This time, I stamped the dog head at an angle at the lower right corner of the card front and doodled in the top part of his body with Copic Multiliner Pens in 0.1 pt and 0.03 pt. Then I Copic colored the full image (E51, E53, W5, W7, R27, and B41), adding Uniball Signo White Gel Pen reflection marks on the glasses.
Then I used the “So Sorry I Forgot!” sentiment from the Gerda Steiner Designs “Howl Are You?” stamp set. The inside card liner is stamped with “Happy Birthday,” and “BELATED” both also from the same Gerda Steiner set. For a bit of whimsy, I spaced out the words so that I could use a Red Ultra Fine Point Sharpie marker to add a red carrot to indicate the insertion of the “BELATED”.
I think this Pug dog stamp is so sweet, and I hope that the personality exuded from these Puggy CAS cards will bring smiles to the recipients. 🙂
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Click on the following picture to watch the process video of creating all three of these CAS cards:
These cards are being entered into the following challenges:
Happy Little Stampers Smile CAS Challenge
613 Avenue Create Anything Goes with Optional Buttons and Bows Challenge
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge
Word Art Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge
Creatalicious Anything Goes with Optional Flowers Challenge
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Anything Goes Challenge
Through the Craft Room Door Anything Goes Challenge
Crafty Gals Corner Anything Goes Challenge
The Corrosive Anything Goes Challenge
lovely cards thanks for sharing with creatalicious Rachel DT
Thanks so much for your sweet words, Rachel!
Nice cards! I love the Pugs
Thanks for joining us!
Ana Isabel Dt Coordinator at Corrosive Challenge blog
I love Pugs too. 🙂 Thanks for stopping by and leaving a kind comment, Ana Isabel!
This dog has such a lot of personality – I love it! Great clean and simple design.
Glad this dropped onto the front porch at 61 Avenue Create.
Hugs Sheryl xx
Thanks so very much for the kind words, Sheryl!
Your cards are so fun and cute!!! Thank you so much for playing along with us at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge! /Karin
Thanks so much Karin!
Oh my goodness, these are simply adorable! Great CAS design! Thank you for sharing with us over at Happy Little Stampers CAS Challenge this month!
Awww thanks so much Angie!
Wonderful makes. I LOVE these! So cute. Thanks for joining us at TTCRD this week.
Thank you so much natalie!
Fabulous trio of cards. Thanks for entering Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, good luck and hope to see you again.
Denise (Owner of LPOCF)
Thanks again for your kind words!
Great cards!
Thank you soo much for taking part in our “anything goes with optional flowers” challenge over at Creatalicious & good luck in the draw.
Hope to see you again in our new challenge as well…
Hugs,
Melanie
(DT-Coordinator Creatalicious Challenges)
(DT Crafty Friends)
(DT The Sketchy Challenges)
PS: Sorry for the late comment, life had been very busy these past weeks…
You’re so kind for spreading all this crafty love Melanie!
Thanks so much for your sweet comment, Melanie!