The card base is made from a 5.5″ x 5.5″ corrugated kraft card stock. I streaked on Adirondack Lights Snow Cap Acrylic Paint with a Dabber<\/a><\/span> to soften the kraft color and texture. The card background was made with watercolor paper that I painted with the following Distress Inks in Festive Berries, Spiced Marmalade, Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron, Salty Ocean, and Wilted Violet mixed with Heidi Swapp Color Shine in Sheer<\/a><\/span> to create a rainbow.<\/p>\n Then I colored up the two Sheltie Digis<\/a><\/span> like Jessica’s pups using Prismacolor Premier Color Pencils in Black (PC 935), Beige (PC 997) and 70% Warm Gray (PC 1056) (I’m new to color pencil coloring, but I thought I would finally start practicing with this awesome 132 Prismacolor Premier Color Pencil Set (on sale now for under $68!)<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and was fingers crossed that I was capturing Merlin and Archimedes’ markings from pictures I’d seen on Instagram).<\/p>\n To add a luxe feel to the card, I added some handmade shimmery white flowers that I made with the fabulous Diemond Dies Sugar Plum Flower Die Set<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and more of the Heidi Swapp Color Shine in Sheer<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0I love how quick and easy it is to make these beautiful flowers that I think rival Prima flowers and are a fraction of the cost! I also die cut some vellum leaves from the Diemond Dies Medley of Leaves Die<\/a><\/span> as well as a couple of more intricate leaves with the Diemond Dies Skeleton Leaf Die<\/a><\/span>. Adding these floral pieces along with a few small mulberry paper roses\u00a0to the base added interest and dimension.<\/p>\n NOTE: Diemond Dies is having a spring sale<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0thru April 30, 2017. Use the coupon code: spring20<\/strong> and get 20% off and free worldwide shipping on all orders of $25 or more. After that time, my readers can always get 10% off and free worldwide shipping on all orders of $35 or more at Diemond Dies<\/a><\/span><\/strong> by using the coupon code: thankskristina<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Lastly, for the inside, I inked the edges of a plain piece of white card stock with some Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Tumbled Glass and stamped out a sentiment that reads, “Dogs leave pawprints on our hearts” from an old Sparkle N Sprinkle “Scratchy” stamp set. I used more of the Tumbled Glass ink to stamp a trail of paw prints diagonally across the inside liner.<\/p>\n The following is a video showing how to make the sugarplum paper flowers:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.craftypaws.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170408_134053-1-1024x1024.jpg\")
<\/a>Anyway, while all of this was going down, I created\u00a0a couple of FREEBIE Sheltie Dog Digis<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for you all and in honor of Jessica’s Merlin (her Sheltie with semi-pricked ears) and Archimedes (her Sheltie with prick ears)\u00a0(she loves her fur babies the way I love mine) — just to let her know I was thinking of her. Then 4 days ago, tragedy struck. Her sweet Merlin passed away. As I read about her loss, I could not stop crying and kept thinking of my own dear Biscuit who has become so frail this past year. I hope her Archimedes is able to comfort her, and I hope she likes this card I created for her.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.craftypaws.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170408_134044-1024x576.jpg\")
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