Ruff day?

Happy May 1st!!  It's time for a new challenge on the Critter Crazy Challenge blog!  As always, it is a month long challenge: Anything Goes as long as you feature a creature.  Here is my card for your inspiration:

This inspiration for this card came from the paw print cover plate.  I have a small stack on my desk of items I haven't used yet (or haven't used very much).  I was looking through the stack and came across the die and a plan started to form.  I really like this sketch from Atlantic Hearts Challenge (unfortunately the challenge expired before I could add the card) and remembered I had a stamp set with a pup that would work well with the sketch.  I also had a bit of red patterned paper on my desk that was already the perfect width for one of the banners so red became the color scheme.  I stamped, colored and fussy cut out the pup and found another scrap of a coordinating red paper to use for the second banner.  The sentiment was from the same set and I added a little heart that was left over from cutting the background and I colored it with a red marker.  

I don't like to throw anything away that might have a purpose.  Several years ago, I created some invitations to a baby shower and had a couple left over.  They were too cute to throw away so I have been holding on to them.  Last month, we had a baby shower for a new baby boy at our church and I ended up cutting off the front panels of a couple of the invitations to use as cards for this sweet little baby and his mom.  So, I still had the back panels with the information for the other baby shower.  So, I just flipped it over and die cut my cover panel from the "clean" side.  Once adhered to the card front, no one will ever know!

I also love to use my little scraps of white card stock.  They are perfect for small sentiment panels and when an image is going to be fussy cut (or die cut) out.  As you can see below, I used some of these scraps for this card.

Thanks for stopping by!  Hop on over to the Critter Crazy blog and check out the details and the rest of the projects from the Design Team.

Supplies:

Stamps: Your Next Stamp "Words: Cats and Dogs"

Dies: Your Next Stamp pawprint cover plate

Challenges:

Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #200--Fill in the blank, Adorable . . . (I have an adorable pup!!)

A Gem of a Challenge--anything goes

Creative Fingers #299--anything goes

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #252--anything goes

Penny's Challenge #595--anything goes

Little Red Wagon #804--make is sew! (my cover plate has stitching)

Pixie's Snippets Playground Challenge #505--anything goes with snippets