I made this card for a local friend who has a French Bulldog - a cutie called Teddy. I couldn't find a Frenchie so had to settle for a pug. Close enough IMHO, at least I tried!
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| An idea of the many layers! |
I used:
- 5" x 5" square white card blank, side opening
- a decoupage sheet by Hunkydory which was ready cut. I just trimmed off the little 'pips' holding the images to the sheet and layered then up using snipped up thin sticky pads. Including the base layer image it's eight layers high in places - so I made a box for it as well!
- then I took a piece of blue tartan paper from a Craft Consortium's Essential Papers 'Tartan' pad and trimmed it down so that the decoupage image had a background, but not too big to be overwhelmed
- my snippet is a slightly larger piece of Tonic satin effect 'Scarlet Organza' satin mirror card - pulled out from the packet which sits in a much used card stack slot alongside where I work on my desk
- glued the blue tartan card onto the red mirror card, then glued them both onto the card front
- then glued the dear little decoupage pooch image onto the tartan panel - all done using Collall All Purpose glue
- final touch, added the little circular 'Santa's Little Helper' sentiment from the decoupage sheet onto the bottom right corner of the image panel, using a thick Hunkydory sticky pad, and called it done!
I'd like to enter this card into Darnell's NBUS Challenge #68 HERE as the decoupage sheet is NBUS - it also has a different pooch on it for another friend - me not totally daft!
And, I'd like to enter it into the current Allsorts Challenge #807 HERE, under the 'Anything Goes' option.
Dudley Pupdate: Earlier this week, Dudley was sick again - twice. And it clicked that once again Honka was the cause, same as last time we went through it due to being a well licked, chomped on and loved favourite companion. The new Honka had been around for four or so weeks and had an occasional bit of attention but not enough to fully take over. However, Len, immediately and unseen, hid old Honka in the shed until Dudley moved onto the new one and we braced ourselves for the fallout.
There were some heartbreaking moments when an arrival at the door, usually a delivery, sent Dudley running, literally crying and looking frantically from room to room for old Honka. However, the breakthrough actually came on Wednesday of this week just gone when I was going out. As I headed for the front door Dudley went ballistic AND grabbed the new Honka, loved him to pieces (don't ask, just imagine) AND began to seriously cuddle him. From that moment on he's absolutely been in love with new Honka! We keep saying we should do it sooner, but how soon is soon?
Very importantly, the results of Challenge #492 are now published HERE.
Do please come and play in Sarn's current challenge over in the Snippets Playground, it's getting colder here so no doubt hot chocolate will be available. Just scroll down from my results post - over in the Playground.
Love from myself and Dudley, xxx
Ha ha ha - a Santa Pug! Whatever next? A brilliant card for your friend - but EIGHT layers? Bet that took some patience! Great result though.
ReplyDeletePhew - thanks goodness Dudley has adopted the new Honka Duck.
Happy Sunday xxx
I'm sure your friend will love this super decoupage card - such patience putting all those layers together but a great result. Well done for finding a dog similar to the breed she has. I'm pleased to hear that Dudley has at last accepted his new duck friend, bless him - hopefully you are already prepared for the next time you need to do a swap.
ReplyDeleteLove the pooch card Di, and so pleased Dudley has accepted his Honka again 😍xx
ReplyDeleteWhat a gorgeous card the image is so cute and l love your background plaid check always a winner with me x
ReplyDeleteBrilliant doggie card Di, looks really dimensional! Aww glad to hear Dudley has finally accepted his new Honka … how adorable imagining the heartbreaking transition moments ❤️
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful card and so nice it's personalised for your friend, sure it was very well received. Happy to hear things are settling with the new Honka, we went through similar with Mr Turkey!
ReplyDeleteConfession time, your comments were so kind, but I didn't do any colouring of those Robins beyond running a damp brush over them, all were inked direct to stamp with mini DI pads. I always used to use Distress Markers for that technique, they were discontinued so find these next best thing, just have to be careful not to get line marks where one colour overlaps the other. A damp brush usually covers that and also bring out the colour pigments. So the conclusion, I still can't colour.
B x
This is so cute and like all the dimension you created is fabulous, your friend will be quite happy!
ReplyDeleteAny dog lover is sure to enjoy a card this cute, regardless of what breed they have. It's such a fun card with that plaid piece outlined with red and I like that cute little sentiment too! Woof! :)
ReplyDeletePopped back to say thanks for linking up at Allsort Di.
ReplyDeleteB x
Such an adorable make and super image to decoupage - great use of NBUS too
ReplyDeletePoor Dudders, so glad he's moved on to new Honka
Kathyk
This is so so cute and love the dimension of the decoupage Di, and if you hadn't said I would think this was a French Bulldog. Glad that Dudley has got used to his new Honka now, but if chewing on the old one was making him sick it had to be done. x
ReplyDeleteSuch an adorable little face on that festive pooch. thank you for sharing at Allsorts x
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