This is for a double challenge, Monday's CAS, Wishing for Spring, and Tuesday's Color Challenge, Pale Plum, Perfect Plum, Soft Suede, and the "dessert" is to include a critter.
So, my young golden retriever's name just happens to BE Spring, and he just happens to have a birthday this week! In this card he is asleep in his doghouse (in reality, he sleeps in bed with us!) and dreaming of his birthday wish, a string of meaty bones to fall from the sky into his doggie dish! He will, in fact, enjoy a big, juicy marrow bone for his special birthday treat.
The card is only 2 layers, Pale Plum, and layered onto a card base of Perfect Plum. The bones and dog are stamped onto something I think looks like Soft Suede, since I don't have that exact color. I've watercolored the dog and doghouse with SU markers, coated them with Diamond Glaze, and popped them up for dimension. The bones I sprayed with gold webbing spray, then clear glaze, and punched them out with a dog bone punch, strung them onto some gold cord. Aren't they "rich" looking!
Yes, it's Spring's birthday card, but in reality, it will go to a very dear "doggie friend" of mine who needs some encouragement to follow her dreams.
Not quite as simple as it started out to be, I hope you like it anyway. I really did have fun making this card! Thanks for looking!
Hugggs!
Maddy
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 GMT Views: 1992
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Registered: July 1, 2007 Location: small town near montreal, quebec Posts: 26677
Tue, Feb 16, 2010 @ 12:41 PM
Beautiful card Maddy, I love the bone dream! LOL I see that you had fun with this and that is all part of cardmaking huh! Love your doggy's name too. TFS
Registered: December 19, 2006 Location: North Carolina Posts: 15571
Tue, Feb 16, 2010 @ 12:58 PM
Happy Birthday to Spring! Happy Birthday to Spring! I am singing....Happy Birthday to Spring! And many more!!! Adorable card. Love your gold bones and the process of how you got those bones gold!!!!!!! The limited supply queen. Give Spring a kiss from me... I believe he kinda likes me. TFS!!
Registered: December 2, 2009 Location: Chesapeake, Virginia (minutes from Virginia Beach) Posts: 4522
Tue, Feb 16, 2010 @ 2:41 PM
I love it!! I love the message on your card, and the way you carried it out with the images...the dog, his bones...so very cool...so creative...and yes, your dog bones look good enough to eat (by a dog, that is )!!
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