Crafty Secrets Heartwarming Vintage Ideas and Tips: Dog Stamps

New 5 Card Printable Puppies Set, Tutorial and New Samples!

Hi Everyone, I have our New Puppy Cards Set plus some great samples to share and a little tutorial.

Our new printable Adorable Puppies 5 Card Set that includes 5 print and fold style cards and a page with 2 birthday and 2 general card sentiments you can print on the inside of the cards digitally or mat and glue them inside. It's a $3.50 download and the puppies are big and designed to print on half a piece of 8.5" x 11" card stock so you can simply fold it. You can re-size them at 200 dpi and each puppy will be 7" x 9" a great size to mat for a 8 x10 frame - which is what I made below but they would also be cute as mini charms.

Some parts of these cards look so #3D I knew I wanted to make a 3D paper pieced sample as a wall art picture for my dog loving nephew's room. So I cropped the Boston puppy and enlarged it by changing the dpi to 200 from 300. This makes the image over 7" x 9" and it prints great on a full page of regular card stock. Print 2 copies so you can cut out the sweater and hat.

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I also wanted to make a pom pom for the hat so I wound some red wool with sparkle fibers around a ruler, slipped it off and tied it in the middle and cut through the loops to make a fuzzy pom pom to add to the hat. I used the text tool to type my nephews name on the sweater in Photoshop Elements and used the arc tool to curve it slightly.

I need to buy a frame for it and maybe mat it on blue or leave it with the white background depending on the frame.

I showed a peek of this cute dog card last week by DT Leader Kathy Clement before she had even posted it and now it's on her blog with instructions. She used stamps from our Little Dogs Digital Stamp Set and I adore this sweet image of the girl and her doggie.

DT Member Elizabeth Lincoln also fell for this same image and created this sweet 'Thinking of You' dog card for her sister who loves dogs. Elizabeth has been going 'dog crazy' with both dog sets and also made a Hound Dog Birthday card and a fun British Bull Dog card.

Love this doggie layout by Victoria Warren Mears she created with her dog Pearl using our Big Dog Digital Stamp Set and papers and roses from CD #1. Dogs have such great faces and getting close of photos can really capture their personality. It's one reason digital cameras are so great , you don't need to be an amazing photographer as long as you set your camera to take the highest resolution photos and take several you can zoom in and crop photos to get the best shots. Just save any edited photos with a new name.

Lastly, I wanted to show you this pretty thank you card DT Member Vicki Chrisman created using one of the birdy images from our Birds & Blossoms Scraps - now a 4 page Digital Download, as well as papers from our Radiant Collection.

I actually lost my computer for a few days to have repairs and I'm so happy yo have it back. Sometimes they are soooo frustrating but impossible to live with out.

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Calling all Dog Lovers, Wonderful Mix of Samples and...

If you love dogs our Little Dog Digital Set and Big Dog Digital Stamp Set are both uploaded and they turned out great with a variety of dog breeds and fun to sentimental phrases. I also have a great mix of samples by our Design Team like our first sample made with the Little Dog set by Kathy Clement.

Here's page 1 of Little Dogs. You can see the sizes of each stamp which are all saved as PNG 300 dpi/ppi files, so they are transparent, re0sizeable and you can layer them.

Here's Page 2 Preview of Little Dogs. You can size the dogs to fit on the chair or bed, print and color them and add pop dots for dimension. There is a sympathy stamp on both sets. Cindy, our graphic designer's little dog Princess sadly passed away while we were working on these so it felt important to make sure they both had nice Dog Sympathy stamps.

Yep, we got a little carried away and we still didn't get every breed

Here is our Big Dog Digital Set if you missed it. It has more large etchings of large dog breeds that have amazing detail

DT Leader Kathy Clement also created this pretty 3D layered birthday card using our Birds and Blossoms Digital Scraps and some of our Garden Papers. If any of you have stayed away from digital because you like getting inky, Kathy loves to get inky and use different mediums with our digital stamps and printables.

Look at this adorable card by DT Member Michele Kovack who created an everyday card with one of the ducks off our Feeling Yucky Digital Set which is only $4.95

Baby Card by DT Member Darlene Pavlick using some cool dies with a darling image from our Baby Memories card stock Vintage Cuts on sale for .75 cents.

I'm a sucker for this pink and blue combo on this pretty graduation card by DT Member Sheila Rumney below. The image and poem are from our Little Blessings Scraps on sale for $1.95 and look how she tied the lace so bow like a curtain and attached a tiny bit of rolled paper for a diploma.

Do any of you watch the TV Show Mr Selfridge? The 2nd season is addictive and my mom, Scott and I are hooked (just like we are with Downton Abbey) It's based on the true story of retail tycoon Harry Selfridge from the USA who opens a department store in 1909 on the wrong side of town in London. The decor, the fashionable outfits and the store are all so interesting - I want to go to the real Selfridges Dept Store which still has many of the old fixtures. His store was the first to offer 'ready to wear' clothes. Before that you were measured and tailors would whip up your outfit and often deliver it the next day.

Wow - how times have changed. I wish I could time travel and go the the Grand Opening Day shown below! We are going to have digital stamp sets in Ladies Fashions, a Vanity Set and a Millinery Hat set but there are a couple of other sets that need to be done first.