Dog Days are Over - Wendy's Echo Park Paper Dogs

Echo Park

Paper Dogs

Hello Everyone...

I really needed to pop back for this month, mainly to grab another one point for the Doggies but also to show you how I made these awesome, oh so colourful paper dogs!

A few years ago , I went through a phase of following Romero Britto. He is an amazing Brazillian abstract artist that uses bright colours in his art works. He has a distinct graphic style that blends Pop Art and Cubist-like abstraction. I think they are so awesome and also so very very inspirational.

After being inspired by Romero, I really had to come up with my own dog and that's what I did!

This project uses up the Echo Park I Love My Dog scrap or left over papers from the other projects this month. I went hunting through my template book looking for a certain 'dog' I had drawn from a couple of years ago and was so happy when I found it.

The original drawn picture and template images after dissecting my drawing.

After I found my drawing, I traced it again and then dissected each individual part of the dog to then make a template for ease of tracing. The template was made from the Kaisercraft Chipboard, also sold by Aunty Vera Scrap and Craft.

I cut each individual piece out of the chipboard and then traced around these pieces on to a piece of manilla folder (below). You can also trace them on to some recycled thin cardboard but at the time I didn't have any.

I cut the shapes out of the manilla folder and then decided which piece of bright coloured scrap paper was going to be used for each dog body part. The whole idea is to cover each piece with a different pattern and/or colour, so the dog is very abstract and whimsical looking.

The manilla folder cut out is then glued to the patterned or coloured paper and then cut out again when the glue has dried. I used a black marker and went round the edge of each piece defining the edge of the dog body parts. It is then just a matter to glue the individual pieces together then to make a whimsical gorgeous abstract dog.

This is so fun!! 

 You don't have to be an expert drawer to draw a dog. You can use specific shapes and put them together to make an abstract dog as well.

These are the other little doggies I made in the process.

To decorate the front of my doggies, I cut out the little images from the Woof Woof patterned paper from Echo Park I love My Dog collection and glued them to the front of the dog. They all look so darn cute!!

You can watch the full process video below:

So many uses for these gorgeous little doggies!

Hope you will make some yourself.

 I'd love to see your abstract styled dogs in group.

 But remember, enjoy yourself and have heaps of fun!

WOOF WOOF

Wendy xox

Dog Days Are Over - Photos added to Wendy's Mini Accordion Album

Photos added to 

the Mini Accordion Album

'Dog Days Are Over'

I wanted to come back here to leave the video to show you all where I have added the photos of our Crafty Vera and Friends facebook group's dogs to the mini album I had previously made.

Thank you to everyone that helped me by leaving a gorgeous picture of their family pet dog that I was able to use in the album.

I hope you all enjoy the video flip through.

Thank you all once again, the album looks fabulous!

Wendy xox

Like a Cat - Sue's Cat Art Journal Page

Hi Everyone,

I hope that everyone has had lots of opportunity to craft some canine or feline craft this month and ready to experiment with an Art Journal page using paint, stencils and scrapbook paper.

I wanted a project that combined my love of art journaling with the adorable scrapbooking papers that we received this month for the Aunty Vera creative team.

And remember it’s not too late to order some goodies to play with, especially the ones on sale.

I started with the following materials,

Dina Wakely Paints  (Sedona,  Tangerine, White, Lapis, Lemon and Sky)

Echo Park “I love my cat” papers:  

  - Red /Grey solids

  - Yellow / Lt. Blue

  - Tags (reverse side)

  - 4 x 6 Journaling cards

  - Meow

Tim Holtz layering stencils

some small paper flowers from my stash

My brayer and Gelliplate (Not necessary)

Journal or paper

My first task was to cover my pages.  I put a very small amount of paint (two or three drops) on my gelli plate and rolled it with the brayer.  When the brayer is mostly covered, lightly roll it randomly over the paper trying not to get too much of the one colour in the same spot.   Repeat this with all the colours so your page is covered.  Start with the lightest colour and work towards the darkest, leaving white till last.  The circular pattern was from the impression on the page behind, so normally you would not have it there.  I forgot that it was there.  

Then use your stencils and the same paint to add some interest.

While it dries cut out a journaling card you like for the sentiment.

Choose some papers to cut into various size rectangles for layering.  Choose an image from the journaling cards or you could use a photograph of your pet.  I also cut out the “I love my cat" label from the paper strip.

Glue your paper pieces into place, (use a strong glue stick or craft glue) grouping them together to form focal images.  Embellish with some small flowers from your stash.

Draw some faux stitches around the edges of all your bit of paper and the sentiment and distress the edges.

An easy art journal page. 

I hope you enjoyed this project.  I loved the way it turned out.  I love the texture you can achieve from using a brayer and stencils. 

Thank you for joining me today.

You can watch the video HERE.

Happy Crafting.

Sue.