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
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I have to say this image and card are so super cute. Oh a side note I got to see some of your cards up close today at the Indy craft fair where one of the vendors had a couple of your cards on display. Beautiful job on so many wonderful cards of yours that I got to see. Love them!!!