Pet Sympathy

 

Welcome

A friend of mine asked me if I could make her a pet sympathy card.

I had never made one of those before so, I decided to take up the challenge although I only have a few animal stamps in my stash.

So, here's what I did to create my card.

• I got out my stencil mat and placed a piece of white cardstock onto it.  I positioned the Cloud Edger stencil over that and got out some Distress Oxide inks.
• Starting at the top of the cardstock, I rubbed on some Broken China DOX ink along the edge of the stencil, moved it down and stenciled again.  
• I wiped the stencil off and next inked with some Blueprint Sketch near the middle of the panel, again, moving the cloud stencil around to get variations on the clouds.
• Finally, along the bottom, I inked in the same way with some Peacock Feathers ink.
• I removed that stencil and placed the Rays stencil over the clouds and inked again using the same colours.
• I die cut the middle of the square panel using the Rectangle Peek a Boo Window and then stamped the sentiment near the top.
• I stamped the other sentiment just under the die cut window.
• I stamped the pup with some black ink and then coloured him in.  I cut him into pieces.
• To assemble the card, I glued the die cut window onto some white cardstock and then onto a 4 1/4" square card base.  
• I pop dotted the larger panel over the die cut window and positioned the puppy inside using pop dots.

Here are the stencils I used:

Cloud Edger

Landscape Rays

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Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Krafty Chicks- ANYTHING GOES

CRAFT Challenge- ANYTHING GOES

The Paper Shelter- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Puppy (IO-retired); Sympathy Sentiments (Penny Black)

Inks- DOX, Versafine Clair

Paper- Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.

Accessories and Tools- Stencil Mat (Waffle Flower); Rectangle die (MFT); 

stencils (ACLD); foam tape; TE stencil brushes