I Wuf You Pirate Card by Ellen Haxelmans

Pirate Puppy by the Sea!

Today Ellen has created a fun nautical scene featuring the dog wearing a  pirate costume from our Dress Up Doxies Stamp Set! She colored the dog with copics, adding cute little speckled details and cut him out using the coordinating Dress Up Doxies Die Set. Then she used a bunch of other NND stamps and dies to created the fun tall scene! For the layers of sky, sand and sea, she used our Sky Borders Die Set, Land Borders Die Set and our Sea Borders Die Set to create layers of clouds, waves and sand!

She added stenciled waves onto the die cut waves using our Waves Stencil. That cute crab on the bottom is from our Tides of Love Stamp Set. She added in more little fish, seaweed and shells using the little images from our Narly Mermaids Stamp Set, Purr-Maid Newton Stamp Set, Scuba Newton Stamp Set and Manatee-rific Stamp Set. She colored all these tiny little sea themed images and cut them out with their coordinating die sets.

For the sentiment on the top, she combined the "Arrrrf" from the  Dress Up Doxies Stamp Set with the "I wuf you" from the Puppy Playtime Stamp Set.

Ellen is a genius at creating scenes! See her tips below on how she created this one!

Tips on creating this scene!

Below we have some tips from Ellen on how she created a fun tall scene!

1. I knew I wanted to have a sea Valentine's card with the captain dog from the Dress Up Doxies Stamp Set. For the rest of my scene I was looking out for stamps that could fit the scene in the sea and in the air. I choose a few images and colored them. It’s important also to not use  not too many different colors on a card, that’s why I use a few similar colors. This makes the whole card look more cohesive.
2. Then I did take out watercolor paper the largest frames from the Framework Die Set. I die cut the frame twice.
   
   
3. After cutting the frames,  I die cut out the borders from paper that was first cut using the same frames. I used the Land Borders Die Set and Sea Borders Die Set for that. I also took white paper to cut out the largest frames again from the framework die set. Later used the SSky Borders Die Set to make puffy clouds with that white paper.
4. I colored the layered borders with Distress Inks. For the sea I also used the Waves Stencil. The Cloudy Sky Stencil stencil where used for the clouds. Then I did put all die borders together. Some of them overlap, but that’s good to have no gaps inbetween.

There are so many fun ways to combine our products for creative scenes! We love hearing the process on how Ellen created this! If you love this project by Ellen you can visit her over at her blog Crafty Ellen to see more of her beautiful creations!