Doggy Kisses and Puppy Love

I got to play with some of the cutest stamps yesterday, Art Impression's Doggy Kisses, that I got from Kraftgali! I love how thin the lines on these stamps are, it's almost like doing no-line when your brain needs the lines. (HA!) 

My first card is using a wrapped up wiener dog! My best friend has three of these little loves, and this one reminds me of Pretzel, he has a long body and at times high centers on things.  So I colored him a chocolaty brown that reminded me of Mr. Pretzel. His bandages I colored in light earth tones and varied every other one. 

I used paper from Sunny Studios that I also got at Kraftgali for the bottom of the card, and a scrap of purple for the top. I received some beautiful sequins in a package from a crafty friend and felt like they matched this rainbow theme. For the sentiment, I chose "Heard It's Been Ruff" since I thought it worked well for mental health and physical health too! I stamped on a scalloped oval by Stampin' Up in Catherine Pooler's Be Mine ink.

My next card also uses the Art Impressions set from Kraftgali. I used the puppy with his teddy, because, well it's adorable. He was colored using Copics. I used a pale purple base to match the pup's slippers, then layered Stampin' Up's Brown Sugar Cardstock on top.

I had some LDRS Creative daisy cardstock that was a little smaller so I decided to center it with extra space on the top and bottom to change up the layout of my card. I used foam tape and popped it up. I glued the pup to the bottom and hung him off the edge of the patterned paper. Next, I placed a Stampin' Up heart patterned paper a in the center and to the right of the card. 

For the sentiment, I chose "Sit... Stay... Heal." I stamped it in Catherine Pooler's Fiesta Blue on a tag, I trimmed the tag down a bit and added some white & pink twine and popped it up on more foam tape.To embellish the card,  I used a shaker pack from Kindred Stamps,  I finished the card off with the band-aid on the Art Impression stamp set from Kraftgali, I thought placing it on the corner of the tag so it kind of bent of the sides was perfect. 

I hope you enjoyed my cards, make sure you check out Kraftgali's new in stock items, she has so many fabulous things we saw at Creativation!

~R. Winn

Little Red - Guest Design for Heartcraft Paper

Hello again friends!

I am super excited to introduce to my friends, HeartcraftPaper, a new digi company. I was lucky enough to be chosen as a Guest Designer for HeartcraftPaper and get to share, Little Red with you today.

I created two card using this cutie. My first, I went with a very traditional version of Little Red. I used Copic markers to color her. My background papers are from LDRS Creative, I hand cut the hill, so it's a bit rough, but crafting from work means using what I've got. The background is a mossy green from Stampin' Up. 

To finish the card up, I used Kindred Stamps' Ladybugs Shaker Pack and picked a few of each color, and the ladybugs out, then spread them over the front of the card at random. Last, I took the "Be Brave" sentiment from the Neat And Tangled Layered Landscapes stamp set, purchased from Kraftgali, with a dark green Altenew ink on a white die cut strip of cardstock and layered it on a black piece of card stock.

My next card, I took a left turn somewhere and never turned back around... I decided Little Red would make an adorable Elvish girl, I made her larger (my favorite part about digis is picking my own size to print them in!) Then I colored her with Copics in the BG tone family. I decided to give her a dark blue cloak this time, and colored her skirt a more peachy color. 

I was kinda stuck on a background for her, my friend Marcia, suggested I go with large flowers and man, she was SO right (thank you for always having my back miss!). I started with a pink ombre paper that a friend had sent me, then picked out two (retired) Stampin' Up floral sets. I stamped some straight on the paper and others on white card stock then die cut them and used some Zots to pop them up off the paper a little. I used Dimensionals to pop my little Elf up off the background.  

I finished the card by using a "hello" sentiment die cut (it was before I started keeping track of what came from where!) and a sticker paper pad so that I could put directly on the card!

I'm super excited about HeartcraftPaper and their adorable designs. I hope you'll check them out!

Until next time,

R. Winn