Lil Fat Doggy

Hi!  It's my turn to come up with the sketch for this week's challenge at Freshly Made Sketches and, bizarrely for me,  I went with angled panels.  I have a thing for angled panels and try to avoid them whenever I can, but there they are in this week's sketch.  Go figure!

 

I started by deciding it was time to start making a few Christmas cards.  From January through June, the last thing I want to do is make Christmas cards, but once July rolls around, I start getting the urge to get some made before it's too late.  I chose this cute Happy Pawlidays set and coloured this adorable chubby little pooch with Copics, making sure to match the colours with the cardstock I'd chosen for the panels.  I then cut him out with my Scan n Cut and set him aside.

I couldn't think what to use for the horizontal panel so decided to use scoring and an embossing folder.  I scored two lines to mimic the horizontal panel and then did some partial embossing with the Subtle embossing folder, leaving the horizontal panel clear.  To further accentuate the panel, I added a very thin strip of matte silver foil beside each score line.  Finally, I added a sentiment and some pearls.

Thanks so much for visiting.  I hope you'll check out the wonderful cards made by the design team and give my sketch a go.

Products used:

Stamps:  Happy Pawlidays (MFT)

Ink:  Amalgam (Gina K), Versafine Onyx Black

Cardstock:  White, X-Press It, Dark Indigo (PTI), Caribbean Sea (MFT), Silver Foil cardstock

Dies:  Stitched Rectangle Stax (MFT)

Accessories:  Copics, Subtle EF (SU), Cool Pearls (Honey Bee) Spectrum Noir Clear Sparkle Pen, Black Glaze Pen

Cheers

Karren