Hanging Out !

This is the set I've used and its due back in this week in store. If you need to be creating a fun canine (or other animal) scene right NOW, I've picked out a few in store for you that you might have missed.

So, back to the card. 

It started with a scrap.

So do many of my cards!

The blue piece I'd cut for something else and plonked it on a card base and started playing around. I'd stamped and coloured the woofers in a watercolour marker and started arranging them sticking out from the piece.

 Then I wanted them to be a little more tied in with the elements. One of the bottom right dogs is stuck behind the piece but the top ones didn't feel right. So I chopped into the shapes to slot them onto the top. You can see in the next photo that i've simply followed the image outline and this meant I could slot and attach them easily.

Unusually, I've added an even number of dogs. I never do this normally, but for some reason, it seems to work. 5 dogs in the lower right space seemed too many. Anyone any idea of why an even number seems to work here, please let me know, I'm all ears (doggy ears!!).

Better go, I've my own scruffy canine to tend!
See you next week,

Keren xx

Doggone Cute!

Hey!
I think most of you will know exactly which set this little dog is from

There's tonnes of cuteness in this set.. and as a new pup is in our family, I had to get it. Easy to make and probably one of the smallest cards I've ever made- only 8.5cm square!

The beauty of this set is that none of the dogs have any markings, so you can really go to town with recreating your own pooches look or just playing around as I did here.

One of the dogs looked like he was looking through something and so I created the idea of one of those play tunnels that agility dogs go through

By using some vellum and alcohol ink, it was easy to get a see-through effect!- and by positioning both the dog and the ball under the tunnel and using a near invisible glue, I could add the glue to the dog and ball (that were already mounted on foam pads) and thus they could be the anchor points for the 'hard-to-invisibly-glue-down' vellum parchment.

So very cute- and there are a really good pile of them left....go...FETCH!!