IO June Favorites

Greetings friends. Today the IO team is sharing some of their favorite items from the June release. If you would like to see a full list of participating designers, you can find it on the Impression Obsession blog.

Today I am sharing two cards using my favorite die of the June release- the Sitting Dog Silhouette. Of course, you can make your cut out dog any color you want, but I will forever make it into a black lab in honor of our late dog Midnight. He was a wonderful tripod black lab that brought so much joy into the world.

This is what the die itself looks like:

 My first card was made with my mom in mind. After all, we both share the love of black labs and coffee. I started with a background I watercolored with blue and green to give the impression of a landscape. I then cut out the dog using dark gray cardstock and shaded it with black ink. I was taught when coloring black items to start with dark grays and to possibly add a smidge of black so that you can get a bit of dimension. Coloring everything with a solid black is often too dark.

I used a sentiment and mug for the Let's Chat clear stamp sent and added a paw print to the mug using a stamp from the new Talk to the Paw clear stamp set.

My second card was made with my brother in mind. He is my younger brother, so normally I wouldn't tell him how pawsome he is. However, it was for his birthday, and I was feeling generous. This time, I cut the dog out of patterned paper from the Dog Prints paper pack and then sponged it with black ink. I added more paper from the pack to the card as well as a giant paw. To finish the card, I added a heart to the paw.

Thanks so much for checking out my cards today and for letting me talk to you about Midnight:

Impression Obsession Items Used:

Dog and Coffee

DIE1312 Sitting Dog Silhouette

CL1299 Talk to the Paw

CS1303 Let's Chat stamp set

Pawsome

DIE1312 Sitting Dog Silhouette

DIE1298 Large Paw

CL1299 Talk to the Paw

PP060 Dog Prints