TodayÂ’s Ways to Use It Challenge is a tribute to National Puppy Day. While I donÂ’t have a dog in real life, I do have a cute one on my card & heÂ’s learned to put mail in the mailbox. What a champ! And on the subject of dogsÂ…the last dog I had was a blonde cocker spaniel named Tigger. We also had a conure (parrot) we named Odie. We called him Odie (after the cartoon dog on Garfield) because he thought he was a dog. He learned to bark from Tigger, but his bark sounded kind of far away. We realized he was imitating the dog when he was barking from the back yard. The parrot we have now is named Linus (after the character on Charlie Brown). He also barks because he learned it from Odie. Guess I also have a thing for cartoon characters, lol.
To make my mail dog card, I put together 3 different images..the dog w/ the fence is one. Originally he had a big stick in his mouth but I drew a letter to replace the stick. The lovebirds on the branch is another & the third is the mailbox, which originally had a big smiling daisy w/ a letter in its leaf. So there was some masking going on here. After I colored everything, I used a self made cloud stencil & sponged in the sky, & stamped a lines bg, tone on tone on the blue frame.
Thanks so much for looking! Closeups & Copic colors are on my blog (as well a pic of Odie, the barking parrot.) The Write Stuff
Date: Thursday, March 23, 2017 GMT Views: 919
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Thu, Mar 23, 2017 @ 12:16 PM
Super cute scene Julie!! This is just the right medicine for any pet owner, and/or their pet whose not feeling. Or a wonderful congratulatory card for someone who just got a fur-baby! . As always, your coloring is fabulous!!
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Thu, Mar 23, 2017 @ 1:15 PM
This is so pretty Julie! Love that scene and the blue on black cardstock is gorgeous!!
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Thu, Mar 23, 2017 @ 2:08 PM
Hmmmm! My Kody is quite smart and has learned many wonderful tricks, especially retrieving, but I have not thought to teach him to retrieve the mail. You've given me an idea, Julie .. LOL! Seriously, your card is adorable and masterfully colored as always! Love the dimension on the cute dog!
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Thu, Mar 23, 2017 @ 10:14 PM
Aw, I love your puppy with his letter!! Your birds, fence and mailbox are prefect!! Everything looks so good together and you combined the images so seamlessly!! Amazing!
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Registered: January 4, 2012 Location: Twin Cities, MN Posts: 864
Fri, Mar 24, 2017 @ 4:12 AM
WOW! Gorgeous coloring, precise masking, cute framed layout! I am amazed at how you colored those itty bitty birds without the red and blue bleeding into each other too much. Awesome attention to detail! And you made such realistic clouds! I love your hand-drawn letter too. So many things to love about this card! I can tell a lot of time and work went into it!
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Fri, Mar 24, 2017 @ 4:17 AM
I need a mail dog, one that knows how to use a key too. LOL This is so so cute Julie - wonderful coloring, love the image and the layout you chose to use.
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