Hugs and puppy snuggles

Hello, crafting friends!

 

What a couple of weeks it has been! But February is here now and I'm happy because I've had a chance to get busy with some snippets:

 

I often ink around the edges of the front of my card bases and this one was one I changed my mind about. The little dog was in my snippets box too. It's from a wonderful Anita Jeram image (see a card made with it HERE) but I really messed up the background of my first try. I saved the dog by snipping it out of the quilt and put it in the snippets box to use on another project. All the other bits are tiny snippets of designer paper and card.

 

I trimmed the white card down with a stitched rectangle die by Heffy Doodle. This was attached to the ink-edged card base and topped with the green floral paper and the wooden plank piece. Eva prefers to be on the hard floor (when she isn't taking up all the space on a sofa!) but I gave my little pup a soft place to sleep by trimming the coral piece of paper with a cloud border die.

 

The letters were cut with The Greetery's Slim Alphabet dies but I found they got lost against the green floral. Luckily I hadn't glued everything down yet!

 

 

The solution was to wrap a snippet of vellum round the floral paper, securing it behind, and glue the sentiment over the top. I finished off with a few enamel shapes.

CHALLENGES

I kept my colours to the palette in the Color My Heart Color Dare challenge #531 (choosing the top row Papaya/Peach/Sage and adding in Honey Butter and Toffee) so will link up there; I'm also joining in with The Alphabet Challenge where Debbie has chosen V for Vellum; and of course I'll be heading over to The Snippets Playground with my homework and to play 'Pinch, Punch, First Day of the Month' with any unsuspecting playmates!!

AND IN OTHER NEWS

Its been a Golden Girl day today! I took them to a favourite place that has a stream running though it AND a river at the bottom AND a melted ice rink!!

 

And no, in case youre wondering, there can NEVER be enough water for a Golden Retriever to career about in!!

Sending hugs,

Dreaming away on a warm quilt

Hello, crafting friends!

I've been seeing dog and cat challenges on the interwebs this week and it has encouraged me to get out a stamp that I couldn't resist adding to my collection at the beginning of the year. Just look at it! Of course I had to have it!

It features my beautiful golden retriever, Madame Floof (one of her many names!) although I can't seem to remember Anita Jeram popping round and asking her to model! I stamped the image on watercolour paper using a neutral, water-based ink, then coloured the quilt and the pup with coloured pencils and gave it a wash of water. I'm afraid I only have a handful of scuzzy old pencils, some of which aren't even watercolour pencils, so that's another thing to go on my wish list! 

The background and foreground were given a wash of neutral-ish colour so that the eye is drawn to the dog and the quilt. Once the image was dry, I added a few details with the pencils and added a Clearly Besotted sentiment on a scrap of watercoloured paper with an enamel heart. Sometimes I look at my darling Eva and I am utterly amazed at how lucky I am to have her - so there we are, dreams do come true!

CHALLENGES

There's a word prompt at Time Out Challenges which is so beautiful: 'In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.' I'm linking up there; I'm also joining in with Allsorts where the theme is Four-legged Friends - or at least I will if I can get this photographed and linked up tomorrow morning! Since this stamp is Never Before Used Schtuff, I am sharing over at the NBUS challenge.

AND IN OTHER NEWS

After a long muddy walk and a shower my gorgeous girl often falls into a deep sleep and dreams, presumablyy, of being a great huntress. I was amused to see her with her face all scrunched up on a paw!

Poor old lady doesn't get a fabulous hand crafted quilt to sleep on!!

Sending hugs,