My brother-in-law has a beautiful (and huge) white dog that is half wolf and half Alaskan Husky, he dwarfs his German Shepherd work dog! I really struggled coming up with a manly birthday card, it is just so much easier to make girly cards, isn’t it?! I wanted to use the Adirondack Paint Dabbers that I got from Tim Holtz’s class. I started with the Basic Grey blue/green circles paper as my inspiration and decided Eric would like an outdoorsy theme.

While at CHA I was drawn to all of the designs using butcher block paper, so I used that as my base and mimicked the circles by blotting my Hero Arts “watercolor  circle” stamp with the Adirondack “Aqua” paint dabber and “Lettuce” Earthtones dye ink.

Next I picked up on the vertical lines in the Basic Grey print by embossing a velum rectangle with the new Cuttlebug forest branches folder.  And stamped one side of my background with the Tim Holtz catails stamp in copper embossing powder.

The dog is from Cricut’s Paper Pups cartridge and the happy birthday, grill and beer bucket stamps are all from Studio G. They look great in the copper embossing powder on the velum. The finishing touch was the dog’s collar which I colored with the Versamark pen before embossing and his party hat, also Studio G from the recent January pack.

All of the pieces were distressed first with Tim Holtz’s Vintage Photo distress ink and followed up with Black Soot on the very edges.

The card itself is made from the new “Heritage” fall colored 8.5 x 11 DCWV card stock. I am really looking forward to giving this to Eric and hope he does not see it on my blog first!

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