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

For more inspiration, follow me on:

*Affiliate links used when possible. This doesn’t affect the price you pay, it simply allows me to continue bringing you better content. :)

**some products were provided by the companies with no obligation to use. 

Comments

  1. Aww Kassi so sorry to read about your furbaby, my heart breaks for you and I'm honoured that you coloured up this image in his memory *wails*. Your colouring is mind-blowing, thankyou for making this image sing, I absolutely love and adore the way you coloured him up. Big hugs lovely xxxx N x

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment