<\/a>I love that as crafters we can totally customize cards and projects for our crafty love recipients. I have a crafty friend, Sheetal (IG: @kumar_sheetal), who has an adorable dog that I fell in love with the instant I saw her on Instagram. Coco is a Shih tzu and reminds me so much of a baby Chewbacca, I couldn’t get her out of my head.<\/p>\n

I decided to make a card using\u00a0a pup from the Avery Elle “Furry Friends” stamp set<\/a><\/span> that I hoped I could Copic color to look like Coco. I used the following Copic colors:<\/p>\n

Coco: W1, W3, E43, E31, E33, E35, E87, E47, and E59 (yes, I know that’s a lot of colors but depending on the picture I was looking at, Coco’s coloring seemed to change quite a bit). I also used a Sakura White Gelly Roll Pen to add some details and highlights.
\n<\/a>Dog bed: R30, R32, and R22
\nFor the background, I blended on Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Cracked Pistachio and Pine Needes and then splattered it with a bit of water to get a mottled look. I die cut the image with the sixth largest circle from the Diemond Dies Die-Normous Stack-Ems Circle Nesting Die Set<\/a><\/span> and then I cut another circle with the 7th largest circle and colored it with Copic R22 to create a color coordinated circle matting.<\/p>\n

For the background, I went to my favorite go-to crafting tool (my Big Shot) and die cut two rectangles from white card stock using the MFT Die-Namics Stitched Rectangles STAX Die Set<\/a><\/span>. For the top rectangle, I used the tiny heart and small paw print dies from the Paper Smooches “Paw Print” Die Set<\/a><\/span> to randomly cut out little openings. For the lower rectangle, I used Copic R30, 32 and 22 to create a variegated background color to show through the die cut paw prints and hearts openings. I adhered the two with lots of strips of double sided foam adhesive to add dimension. I then matted that with a scrap of peach colored Shimmerz paper and then adhered the whole ensemble to a pale mint card stock card base.<\/p>\n

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This card is being entered into the following challenges:
\nPaper Smooches Love Challenge<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Addicted to CAS Pets Challenge<\/a><\/span>
\nCASology Romance Challenge<\/a><\/span>
\nMarkerPOP Be My Valentine Challenge<\/a><\/span>
\nSimon Says Stamp Monday Use Your Favorite Tool Challenge – Big Shot
\n<\/a>Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Cute Challenge<\/a><\/span>
\nWord Art Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge<\/a><\/span>
\nCrafts Galore Encore Anything Goes Challenge<\/a><\/span>
\nAddicted to Stamps and More CAS Challenge<\/a>
\n<\/span>MFT Color Challenge #63<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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