Puppy Party Gift Card Holder

 Hello!!!!  I am so excited to share this gift card holder with you today.  Our family loves our pups so I am sure that I will have no problem finding someone to give it to.  I bought this stamp this past summer when Trinity Stamps was at the Colorado Scrapbook Expo and hadn't had a chance to use it.  The stamp set is called Puppy Party and the mug die cut is, Coffee Mug Card Die Set.  I had originally set out to just stamp a simple Gnome on the card but this is what happened instead.  I love when that happens!

I cut the mug out of Express It Blending Card paper rather than another cardstock because I knew that I would be doing a fair amount of Copic coloring.  I stamped the pups using my Misti to get a good impression.  Leaving the stamp in my Misti, I stamped the image again on Post It Note Tape to make my mask.  I applied the mask over the image stamped on the mug.

I used my Copic Airbrush System to place the background sky and grassy area.  I used B01 for the sky and YG07 for the grass.  I like to use this instead of ink blending when I have a large area with small pieces and openings masked off.  It is also helpful to be able to use the markers to color any uncolored gaps that might occur.  

The image is colored with Copic markers in the following colors: 

• #1 - E33, E15, E17, E19
• #2 - W1, W3, W5, W7
• #3 - YR30, E53
• #4 - YR30, YR31
• #5 - YR12, E33, YR16, YR27
• #6 - E51, E21, E11, E13
• #7 - N0, N2, N4, N6
• R1, R20, R21 - Ears & Tongues

On the inside of the card and the card holder, I used the Copic Airbrush system so that the outside and inside would match.  However, once I was done coloring the pups, I realized that my inks had bled through to the inside of the card.  In order to cover this, I cut another card out of cardstock, sprayed it and then trimmed it so that it would fit on the inside covering up the ink that bled through.  Once those pieces were adhered, I was able to glue the card holder in.

The sentiment on the outside and on the inner card holder are heat embossed with black embossing powder. 

I just couldn't be happier with the way this card turned out.  Thank you so much for stopping by today and I hope you have a Pawsitively Amazing day!!!

Sandy