I wanted to say Thank You to my eldest brother for taking such WONDERFUL care of our Dad but I didn’t want to make a traditional thank you card. So, I made a “You’re the Best”/Thank You card with a dog theme.

I started by picking the dog that I thought represented my brother best from the Tim Holtz – Mini Crazy Dogs stamp set, LOL. It sounds crazy because I never likened him to a dog before but that is how I picked the doggie image to used.

I made masks for the dog, tennis ball, bone, and food bowl images. Then I stamped those images where I wanted them on a 6″ X 6″ piece of Hammermill Digital Copy 100lb cover paper and applied the masks. I inked the background around them using Mowed Lawn – Distress Ink for grass and Broken China – Distress Ink for the sky.

Next, I initially stamped the images using Memento Tuxedo Black ink and then used Copic Sketch Markers to color the images. Copics Used: Dog: E53, E57, E55; Tennis Ball: YG00; Food Bowl: R29, R59; Dog Food: E25, E27; Bone: left white. Then I stamped the images, again, this time, using Versafine Onyx Black ink and heat embossed them using Mystic Fire embossing power.

I die-cut the doghouse three times, from Black cardstock, Woodgrain cardstock, and Cherry Cobbler – Stampin’ Up cardstock, using the Hero Arts Doghouse Frame Cut die-cut. I paper pieced the doghouse using the 3 die-cut images and once assembled I sprayed the doghouse with Iridescent Glitter Dust.

After placing the Doghouse where I wanted it I made another food bowl the same way as above then die-cut it and adhered it on top of the first food bowl using foam dimensionals. I applied Glossy Accents to the tennis ball and bone and then applied Diamond Stickles. I stamped and embossed the outside sentiment, die-cut it using a miscellaneous die-cut I had on hand, matted it on green glitter paper, and adhered it to the card front using foam dimensionals.

The sentiment on the inside of the card just says, Thanks, and was die-cut from the same glitter paper used for the mat on the front of the card. It was placed on top of a mound of stacked bones made using Glossy Accents, Diamond Stickles, the die-cut bones stamp and foam dimensionals.