Bone appetit 2- The Return of the Retriever

There were too many photos to upload last time. So here are the rest of the photos of the mini album.


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Details: Hand drawn 'bone' alphas on chipboard, outlined and glittered and attached with some pop dots. Hand drawn Muffins, painted and glittered and I also added glittery swirls across the bottom right. Hand made white blossom, embossed the viens etc and layered it with more flowers and Maya road ribbon.

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Details: Hand made bone from some fancy pipe cleaners I had lying on my table! Tied it together with a bow and voila! Glittered some hand made blossoms and used some puffy gel stickers to finish off the page.


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Details: Inked and glittered flowers (Prima) and Gel sticker instead of a brad and a hand drawn doggie bone {water paints and then glittered (Stickles)}. Stamped and embossed doggie paws and glittered, hand drawn swirls


Page 4: Hand drawn and coloured Kong toys, some prima flowers and puffy gel stickers.

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Details: I outlined and glittered the little Birdie (Maya Road), drew some glittery swirls on a Prima flower, added ribbon leaves and drew glittered swirls in upper right corner.



Thanks for looking!
Cheers,
Avantica

Bone Appetit !

My little (well... not-so-little) furbaby just celebrated her first year this week! I cant believe my little baby is already a year old!! How time flies! I remember clearly, the day we got her home, her first explorations around our home, her first apprehensive walk, the first time she smiled, the first time she sat on a command...oh well...the list goes on! We all had a wonderful day and I made this album about my darling Mowgli.

I set myself a challenge with 3 conditions.

It had to be crafty.

It had to be about Mowgli.

It would naturally have to be cute :)

No seriously...the 3 rules were

1. I had to make it in A DAY (which is basically 4-6 hours that I have left after work, errands etc.) This was really hard as I usually tend to take a week or more!

2. Use whatever is on the table within reach. The only thing I could use which was away from my table was the printer. No internet either! I usually like to use many different techniques/ tools on a single layout so this too was hard but, I improvised with many hand drawn embellies, doodling, some pipe cleaners and creative layering. I even made the mini album from scratch...chipboard covers and all!

3. Use up my old stash. Yaaa...ay !

For the layout, I scraplifted some kind soul whom I would like to credit but honestly can't remember! If you are reading this, kindly let me know so I can credit you and thanks for the inspiration! I had seen this layout a few months ago and had just remembered it as appropriate for a pet album.

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Cheers,

Avantica

To Pet or Not to Pet ?

Well...to be precise...To dog or not to dog? That is the essential question for us these days. And in addition to that, “Which dog to dog?”. Sorry, I meant which dog to pet… My mind is overflowing about doggys, 'doggy' info and images so much so that I'm seeing dogs everywhere!

We are both huge fans of Labradors and Golden Retrievers but we are worried that they are too big for an apartment (even if we do have decently large space.) Everywhere I go I'm suddenly seeing dogs. Today in front of the supermarket we saw a sweet puppy (cocker spaniel) crying for mummy and daddy to come back out and pick him up! During the weekend , we went 'doghunting' and saw soooo many cute, sweet, adorable...(ooohhh I could just go on!!!) puppies!

We went to see the cutest little golden retriever. It's completely white (a very rare type of golden retriever) but so energetic and smart. Immediately he loved us and ran to jump into my arms, the next second he ran to play with some grass and then ran to eat some dog food that was safely stored away in a plastic bag in the corner. Next second again he was about to escape into the great unknown outside. What an energy bundle! I told my DH to hold me back from buying at that very moment and drag me out of the shop when I wouldn’t let go of my “cutie, sweetie, fluffy, tubby, roly-poly puppy”! In the end, he somehow got me out of there and started to discuss rational questions such as “how many times a day do big dogs need to be walked?” “How about when we travel away for vacations?” and other boring considerations… And this from the very guy who just stated, "Oh Man, I can't live without a dog! I need a Labrador.....Now!!!"

It didn’t take long for new challenges to arise! Dear Mom-in-law calls frantically and decrees: “Don’t buy a dog, waste of time, waste of energy.” and “Dogs will not be allowed into our house for Christmas.” She apparently heard the news from FIL that we had gone nuts and wanted to buy a dirty, smelly creature of some sort! Well, not all have the same taste I guess… Anyways, we are sitting and drooling over our newly acquired 'encyclopedia of dogs' and have come to the realisation that if we have any sense we will get a small or medium sized dog. Check back on my blog next week to find out if we have any sense.

P.S: I wouldn’t necessarily put a lot of money on us being overly rational !

Well... crafting and creating wise, I had a fun day. I wanted to play with some inkpads and stamps I had lying around for ages so, I made a few cards and tags. Oh and check out the CPS blog. Just discovered it and I think it's pretty cool! Here's my take on the CPS Sketch #83. I've shifted the circle from bottom right. Hope you like it!

I layered white embossed card on black card for the bg. Then I stamped and handcut the blue scalloped border and layered it with silver and black cards. The cute 'duckie' image, I painted with silver and blue paints, matted on black and added a hipchip from Ki Memories at the upper right. And Voila!

This card is my personal fav. I layered the pp with a beautiful quote which says,"If I had one gift that I could give you, my friend, it would be the ability to see yourself as others see you, because only then would you know how extremely special you are.” I stamped a border around the quote and then handcut. Then I layered it with ribbons and a fabric flower I made from some gorgeous fabric I found this weekend in the sale section of a local shop!

That's all for now. Have a Great Week ahead!

Cheers,

Avantica