Today’s Ways to Use It Challenge (WT628) is a tribute to National Puppy Day. While I don’t have a dog in real life, I do have a cute one on my card & he’s learned to put mail in the mailbox. What a champ! Â And on the subject of dogs…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. Â Here’s a pic of Odie on his favorite cup.
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.
Here are the Copics I used.
Thanks so much for stopping by!
Supplies:
| Stamps: DRS Designs – Doggie Dilemma, Lovebirds, Happy Mail, Lines O’ Plenty Bg, Just a Note |
| Paper: Staples 110# white, lt blue, black |
| Ink:Â Â Memento tuxedo black, summer sky |
| Accessories:Â Copic markers, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, lg & sm petite ovals, nested pennants dies |
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