A crafty friend, Stacy (YT: LambertCreation26), recently had to put down her sweet basset hound, Chloe. She was so distraught and saddened by this\u00a0and\u00a0asked crafty friends to create a doggy themed pocket letter in memory of her pup. \u00a0Nothing pulls at my heart strings like the loss of an innocent, so regardless of what I had going on, I knew I had to create something in memory of Chloe Bug.<\/p>\n

<\/a>I started with a light colored puppy patterned paper by Deja View that I thought would let the rest of the puppy items shine. Then I busted into my puppy crafty stash and picked out some fantastic dimensional stickers with precious\u00a0puppy images. I kept it simple, just adding\u00a0teal and white\u00a0baker’s twine bows, a few orange ribbon bows, and some hand cut word sentiments. The bottom center pocket I kept flatter, just using a printed vellum cut apart that said “paw prints”\u00a0and a couple of glittery paw stickers (I popped up the paw print stickers on foam adhesive — I couldn’t help myself!)\u00a0so that I would have space to insert my actual letter to Stacy in the back.<\/p>\n

For the selvage I used one of my favorite washi tapes with super cute puppy faces on it. These images seemed to match the stickers perfectly! I was careful to re-cut the holes into the washi using an Xacto knife. \u00a0I used a little chipboard “fetch” tag (which seemed to coordinate nicely with the little Labrador puppy in the adjacent pocket) for my “handmade with {heart} by CraftyPaws” label, which I also attached with baker’s twine.<\/p>\n

For the center square of the pocket letter, I made a shaker using my American Crafts Fuse Tool<\/a>.\u00a0 I filled the inside with brightly colored enamel dots and Studio Calico\u00a0wood veneer dogs that I colored up with my metallic gold Sakura Gelly Roll pens. To cover up the seam, I added a dog bone\/treats sticker, reinforcing the adhesion with E6000 (since this needs to stay stuck to the plastic pocket sleeve).<\/p>\n

The following is a video share of the project:<\/p>\n