Chloe's Thank You

I needed to make a thank you card from Chloe the cutie puppy, so I turned to this week’s Mojo Monday sketch to make this dog-themed creation to send on her behalf.

The dog image is from the Pawprints on Our Hearts set from Market Street Stamps. Colored up with Copic markers in shades of golden yellows and browns, the set’s large dog image looks enough like Chloe herself to work. I used red ink to stamp the collar image before coloring the dog. The little bone-shaped tag is colored in with a silver gel pen. Chloe used to have one of these on her collar, but after she chewed the identifying information off of three (yes, three!) of them, I had to come up with an alternate plan. She’s a piece of work, this puppy!

I cut out the image and set it on an oval panel with dimensional dots. I used two patterned papers from a My Mind's Eye pad to add some contrast to the pale blue cardfront. Chloe's not a girly-girl dog, so the colors are perfect for a Chloe card. The striped panel has a strip of ivory faux suede ribbon wrapped around it to break it up a bit. I left the card sentiment-free since my image ended up being a little bigger than the sketch was designed for and took up a lot of space. I think I'll add one or two of the set's pawprint images inside instead.

Materials Used:
from i {heart} papers: Market Street Stamps Pawprints on Our Hearts stamp set, X-Press white Copic blending cardstock, Memento Tuxedo Black and Rhubarb Stalk inks, Copic markers (YR21, Y23, Y32, E31, E33), My Mind's Eye Six by Six Blink of an Eye paper pad, Spellbinders oval dies, May Arts ivory faux suede ribbon, Sticky Thumb dimensional dots

other: Soft Sky and Sahara Sand cardstock (Stampin' Up!); silver gel pen (Sakura)