I needed a masculine birthday card, so resorted to the bulldog again - this time because the recipient is a farmer and works with dogs... I doubt he uses bulldogs, but hey - it's a dog :-), and his farm is in the hill country, so this image fits very well.
The image is a digi image from Priscillastyles store which I printed out onto white, coloured the background mainly by sponging dye inks, and the dog was watercoloured.
The image was cut with a Spellbinders rectangle, and the black backing layer was a rectangle one size up and the image offset onto it, the wider edge pierced and then faux stitched with a white pen.
The dp was stitched with black thread and the layers were mounted, the ribbon attached and the embossed sentiment label secured with silver brads.
Although a simple card in the end, it went through several metamorphosis's in the making!!
This is being linked to:
Stampin Royalty Challenge #37 - Stitching Madness
Southern Girls Challenge #1 - anything goes
Shirleys2Girls - Twisted Thursdays Challenge #74 - Happy Birthday with a Critter
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May your day be blessed
Male cards and layouts are always harder to do i find,youv done a siper job with this,love that doggi.Thanks so much for joining us at southern girls for our very first challenge
ReplyDeleteGreat stitches! Thanks for playing with Stampin' Royalty.
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining us Maxine at Southern Girls Challenge. Please pass the word around to any of your NZ friends, we wanted this site to be mainly for us NZers, so have great prizes to win!
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Tracy
Wow, this is cute! Thanks so much for playing at S2G!
ReplyDeleteHi Maxine - I love what you do with this dog image of Priscilla's! Your colouring is perfect and you have created such fun DP - this card would bring joy to anyone's birthday! Love it! Thanks for sharing Maxine! {{{hugs}}}
ReplyDeleteFunny fellow! Cute card.
ReplyDeleteThank you for joining us for Twisted Thursday at Shirleys2Girls. Hope you'll join us next week, too!