best birthday pup...

Hello my fabulous friends!

I don't know about you, but I do a LOT of coloring... Sometimes I color because I have to for work, sometimes it's for the enjoyment (therapy), but often, it's just to practice and learn... 

Not everything I color actually ends up being made into something....  I have a box full of colored images with their color notes and product lists clipped to them with no idea if they will ever become anything more... And that's ok.  

Then I have a pile of special images that I have colored, that I know I will turn into cards... 

This was one of those images... I couldn't turn it into a card right away, but I knew I would when I was ready....

Paper: Strathmore Bristol Smooth; Bazzill

Stamps: Polkadoodles Scruff Birthday; Super Sentiments

Ink: Inkon3 Fadeout*, Blackout*; Dr. Ph. Martin's Bleedproof White

Coloring: Zig Clean Color Real Brush

Dog- 075, 096, 902, 069

Blue- 038

Flame- 055, 050, 061

Crown-  061

Green-  053, 046

Frosting- 068 

Red- 260

Ground- 093

Dies: Kat Scrappiness Double Stitched Rectangles

Stencil: La-La Land Crafts So Many Dots*

Other: gold acrylic paint

I absolutely adore this cute guy!!! I ordered the stamp a while ago, and it sat waiting for me to have a chance to ink it up between all the other projects that needed to get done... Then, a month ago, one of our dogs took a bad turn... she had a stroke, and a seizure... and we had to put her down.

 My heart broke..

 When I sat down at my desk that day, I remembered I had this stamp... I pulled it out, inked it up, and as I colored it, I remembering the good times with my dog, and it helped ease the pain a bit... 

Art can be amazingly therapeutic!

I wanted to keep this card fairly simple, but I was having trouble finding any patterned paper that matched in my (ridiculously large) stash... So I found some gorgeous dark blue paper, and a polkadot stencil, and used some metallic gold acrylic paint to make my own custom paper. 

 I really need to start using my stencils more often!

See you soon!
~Kassi

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