One of my crafty YT friends, Cathy (YT: Huckleberry Herbs and Art) asked crafty friends\u00a0to make something that involved “a favorite thing.”\u00a0For me, that meant\u00a0something celebrating puppies! YAY! \u00a0I 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….<\/p>\n

<\/a>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<\/a><\/span> 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<\/a><\/span> 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<\/a><\/span> and again used my Xacto blade to cut through the entire card front.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Fired Brick and Tea Dye. I die cut out another <\/a>Diemond Dies Window Die<\/a><\/span> and positioned it so that the puppy looked like he was peering out of the window. I also used the Diemond Dies Shutter Die<\/a><\/span> and the Window Box Die<\/a><\/span> 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.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0and die cut with a\u00a0My Favorite Things “Grassy Hills” die set<\/a><\/span>. For the sandy\u00a0playground\u00a0foreground, I inked up more white card stock with Tim Holtz\u00a0Tea Dye and Antique Linen Distress Inks and die cut the back edge with the Lawn Fawn “Stitched Hillside” die set<\/a><\/span>. Then for the playground equipment, the tree, and the spotted dog on the slide, I used the Lawn Fawn “Let’s Play” stamp set<\/a><\/span>, 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\u00a0<\/a>Lawn Fawn “Hello Baby” stamp set<\/a><\/span> and just colored them up like greenery. The other dogs at play are all from the Clearly Besotted “Playful Pooches” stamp set<\/a><\/span>. I love how all the pups\u00a0seemed too coordinate so nicely even though they\u00a0were from three different stamp companies!<\/p>\n

The following are all the Copic colors I used:
\nAI Puppy:\u00a0E13, 15, 97 and 99 (brown body) and C0 and 1 (white paws and face)
\nAI Puppy in Portrait: W3 and 5\u00a0with N4 for background
\nLF Puppy on Slide: N0, 2 and 4
\nPug on Teeter Totter: N3, 5, 7 (dark face) and Y11, 13, 21 and 26 (fawn-colored body)
\nSpotted dog on Teeter Totter: E31, 35 and 39 (spots); N0, 1, 3, and 0 (white body); and R20 (tongue)
\nFrisbee dog: E70, 71, 74 and 79 (dog); R30, 20 and 32 with RV21, 23 and 25 (ears and frisbee)
\nFluffy dog in center of playground: E51, 21, 97 and 99 with BG32 and 45 (collar)
\nSniffing dog by tree: E51, 53 and 55 with R20 (tongue)
\nTree tops and bush: YT13, 25 and 17<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/span>. I cut out several rings with 7 adjacent circle dies and tucked in one end of the rings behind the tree top. \u00a0The 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. \u00a0To color up each of the rings, I used the following\u00a0Copic colors: R24 and 29; YR04; Y19; YG07 and 07; B24 and 18; V17. \u00a0I 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.<\/p>\n

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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\u00a0(by request):<\/p>\n