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Hello, and happy Wednesday, friends!  I'm back today with another card featuring a few products from Honey Bee Stamps awesome Pet-tastic Release!

I've used three of the new Lovely Layers sets for my card. These include the Lovely Layers: Big Dogs, Lovely Layers: Medium Dogs, and the Lovely Layers: Small Dogs. I thought it would be fun to include a dog from each of these adorable sets.

I die cut all of each dog's layers from Neenah Solar White cardstock. I used various neutral colors of Copic markers to color each layer of the dogs. Something that helps me when coloring animals like these is to do a web search for images of that animal. For example, by looking at images of the Labrador, that helped me to choose my Copic marker colors. I don't try to do a totally realistic coloring of the animal, but it certainly helps by giving me a starting point!

I downloaded and printed the Layering Guides for the Big Dogs, Medium Dogs and Small Dogs that are found just below the product description. Then I used glue to adhere the layers together. To give the assembled images a finished look, I wanted to color those white edges of the layers that weren't fully colored. I used one of the Copic markers I used for coloring the dog and colored the edges with the tip of the marker.

I used two of the papers in the "FreeBee" pack you get with a qualifying purchase for the background. I cut the heart paper to 1-¾" tall and the teal to 3-¾". I glued the heart paper at the bottom edge of an A2 card base.

Before I glued the teal paper to the card I placed it into the Paw Prints 3D embossing folder. What I hadn't considered is that since this is patterned paper it does have a white core. The beautiful dimension of the 3D embossing folder did crack the paper on the paw prints showing the white paper core. Luckily, I did have some ink in my stash that coordinated with the paper so I hid the white cracks by blending the ink onto the cracks with a blender brush. I glued the piece to the card base. I also added a narrow strip of teal inked cardstock at the bottom edge of the embossed paper.

I stamped two of the sentiments from the You've Got A Friend stamp set with black ink. I cut them out with the coordinating dies. I added foam strips to the sentiments to adhere them to the card.

Next I glued the Beagle to the card. I used foam dots to adhere the other two dogs. I added a few Ocean Blue acrylic hearts with glue around the sentiment for a touch of bling.

All of the dogs in each of the sets are so cute and I can't wait to use the others in a project! I sure appreciate you stopping by today! Have a wonderful and crafty day!

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