BLOG HOP

I am super super excited to be involved in my first ever blog hop... Well Encouragement Hop.

Three awesome ladies and come together to organize a hop with a difference. You could be involved through YouTube or a blog post or even sending a card into Courtney. Find Courtney can be found here.
Mary can be found here. Third awesome person is Jen from Scrapping Of Creations.

The idea was to help people be involved in a Hop that may not usually be able to be involved in and most importantly encourage each other too by visiting and seeing each others wonderful creations.



For my Card I used an Australian company called Uniquely Creative. The name of the set is 'Dreams r 4 chasing'.

 

I love this set. It is soo cute and I will be doing more with it!

 

I stamped out the dog and grass. I masked the dog so I could do the background using the MFT cloud stencil and Stormy Sky Distress Oxide Ink, When I did the sky, I didn't want patches of white. It was abit too strong of a contrast, so I went over the whole sky again with the Stormy Sky. I masked off the ground in the process to do the grass. I didn't think about the ink clouding up the black ink of my stamped grass. Brain fart moment! lol So to fix that I went over it with a pen. 

It can be difficult to get a masked outline close so any little white patches were colored using a Copic marker that matched the stormy sky. I did the same for the ground, which was sponged with Peeled Paint and Mowed Lawn. For the sky's 'oop's' I used B93 or 91 and the ground was a mix of YG45, 17, 06 and G14.

Copics I used were:

E37, 35, 33, 31

R17

C9,07, 05, 03

When I did the tongue and inside of the mouth I used C3 (I think) to go over the tongue to dull it down. So you can use your grays to tone things down! I wanted to leave small strokes to give texture to the fur. You have to make sure they are only small otherwise it just doesn't work. I have found.

Thank you for stopping by. Please subscribe to my newsletter and head on over to Jamie from Not to Shabby to to see her awesome design. I love her work. Can't wait to see what she has done!