Man's Best Friend...

Good Afternoon...

Today's card is for the lovely Lili of the Valley Design Collective.

My love for all things Lili is no secret and at the moment, well I have to say  

there is an awful lot to love!

There is a special offer on some of the newly launched papers, sentiments and art pads;

Look here for all the details!

...and as if that was n't enough to have us Lili fans swooning there is another fabulous offer - a whopping 25% off all Lili Christmas goodies until 25th June!

All the details of that offer can be found here

Today's card is made with the adorable stamp 'Man's Best Friend'

This is just a perfect subject for me given my love of my adorable girls Ruby Roo and Phoebe Mouse.

I coloured this super image with Prismacolor pencils.  To be honest, I had pretty much given up on my pencils.  They were gathering dust on the corner of my table and I had virtually decided to sell them.  I thought though that I should give them one last chance and after a bit of practice, this card is what I came up with.  You can of course all speak freely,   I respond well to feedback, but perhaps I should hang on to them for a while?

I used some papers from the new Lili of the Valley Collections, 

Romance and Roses and Dress Shoppe to create layers and the strip of paper across the card is from the Bonnets and Bowties collection.

The background is a piece of Core d'inations card stock embossed with clouds and sanded.

Finally I added a Father's day sentiment from Lili of the Valley's 

Greetings Postmarks - Set 18 and some twine and a little star button.

Here we are then 'Man's Best Friend' (and from where I am sitting, 'woman's' as well)!

I would like to enter this card for the following challenges

Papertake Weekly - Something For The Boys

The Ribbon Girl - Anything Goes With An Image

Little Claire Designs - Father's Day Challenge

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Furry Friends

Ingredients

Lili of the Valley Rubber Stamp - 'Man's Best Friend'

Make it Colour Blending Cardstock from Quixotic Paperie

Memento Ink Pad

Archival Ink Pad

Prismacolor Pencils

Lili of the Valley Sentiment Stamps Set 18 - 'Greetings Postmarks'

Papers from Lili of the Valley 'Romance and Roses', 'Dress Shoppe' 

and 'Bonnets and Bowties' Collections

Tim Holtz Distress Core d'inations Cardstock

Die'sire Embossalicious Embossing Folder - 'Clouds'
Die-namics MFT Stitched Rounded Rectangle Dies

Twine from The Ribbon Girl

Tiny Star Button from my trinket box

Tim Holtz Paper Distressing Tool

Tim Holtz Paper Sanding Tool

Collall All Purpose Glue

Inks Used

Memento Ink Pad in Black

Archival Ink Pad in Watering Can

Signo Uni-Ball White Gel Pen

Prismacolors - 

Skin - 929 Light Peach, 1092 Nectar

Hair - 941 Light Umber

Clothes - 1091 Green Ochre, 1078 Black Cherry, 941 Light Umber, 1052 Warm Grey

Little Dog - 1052 Warm Grey, 935 Noir, 1084 Ginger Root, 1082 Chocolate

Bench - 1094 Sandbar Brown, 914 Cream

Grass - 1096 Kelly Green, 1090 Kelp Green, 1004 Yellow Chartreuse

Background - 1024 Blue Slate, 1087 Powder Blue, 938 White

Thank you for visiting...

Happy Crafting...

Sue...xxx

.... and remember to pop and have a look at all the loveliness at 

Lili of the Valley