Happiness is a Warm Puppy….Words 2 Craft By Part 2

Hello!  There’s still time left for our monthly challenge over at Words 2 Craft By with the”Happiness is a Warm Puppy” theme – I made Halloween cards this time around.  Below is the link and we’d love for you to play along:

https://words2craftby.blogspot.com

 

I wanted to share a fun technique I came across some time ago by Karen Burniston of Elizabeth Craft Designs.  She calls it “Modeling Paste Backgrounds”.  Click here to watch her video:

In a nutshell, you add modeling or embossing paste to your embossing folder to get 3 different backgrounds.  If you want to try this, you definitely need to watch Karen’s demonstration first.  I decided to try this technique with my paw prints embossing folder.   This is how the embossing folder looked – I apologize that the photo isn’t crisp, but you get the idea.

These are my 3 backgrounds – I think they’re cool and especially love the texture of the first one!  Left to right, they are my first pass-through in the Big Shot, then the 2nd and 3rd. 

Here are my Crazy (Cairn Terrier) Dogs, based on my own dogs, Brody (L) and Candi  – you might recognize the Pirate from my first Happiness is a Warm Puppy post – he had a leaf on his head.  I included a separate picture of Candi since her head was covered up with the witch’s hat.  I used distress inks to color the dogs and accessories.

 

 

 

 

I‘d like to show you the real-life Cairn Terriers who inspired my Crazy Dogs (this pic is several years old):

That’s Brody on the left;  he just turned 13 and we’ve had him since he was a puppy.  Candi was our little rescue girl that we got when she was around 3.  Sadly, she went to the Rainbow Bridge earlier this year, not long after her 10th “birthday.”   I love this pic because Brody looks so proud – like that’s HIS little woman – LOL!  My Crazy Dog version of her was lighter gray because that’s how she was as she aged.  I miss her so.

Back to the cards….I used the first pass background for  my Candi card.  While the embossing paste was still wet, I added Clear Rock Candy distress glitter. 

 

The 2nd pass background was the Brody card:

I did make a simple card using the 3rd background.   Since this was the last one to go through the Big Shot, I had to add a shim to get the rest of the embossing paste onto the paper.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That about covers it . Thank you for stopping by and please feel free to leave comments 🙂

Playing along in the following challenges:

https://modsquadchallenge.blogspot.com/2016/10/halloween-fun.html

http://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2016/10/pumpkins-or-color-orange.html

http://thecraftyaddicts.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/challenge-27.html

http://deepoceanchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/challenge-140-halloween.html

http://scrap-creations1.blogspot.com/2016/10/going-grey-with-scrap-creations.html

http://unicornchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/challenge-14-pretty-pinks-or-halloween.html

http://craft-deebowz.blogspot.com/2016/10/october-challenge.html

http://livelaughstamp.blogspot.com/2016/10/critters-and-creatures-linky-party-8.html

http://glitternsparklechallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/challenge-211.html

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