Hi Peeps,
I have been MIA for a few days, I had Sunday all planned to get some crafting done and it all went wrong. Housework was done and it just remained for me to take little Ollie out for his walk so he would be tired and hopefully sleep whilst I set to task in my craft room, but my worst fear happened. We had only just arrived at the dog walk park when from about 30ft from us two dogs spotted Ollie and travelled the distance in next to no time. I was unable to pick him up quick enough so the Rotweiler managed to sink his teeth into Ollie. The squealing and crying from Ollie is still haunting me. I tried to prise the jaws of the attacking dog apart but just couldn't move them. I couldn't pull Ollie away as he had his ear between his jaw and had no intention of giving up. It seemed to go on an age with Ollie screaming before the owners, who were throttling the Rotweiler managed to get him to let go. Ollie's ear was bleeding and he went into shock in my arms and I was shaking like a leaf. As you all know I'm a new dog owner and was really enjoying my little pup and this came as quite a shock to me, and one I certainly don't want to repeat. From speaking to other dog owners I think we actually came off lucky as this particular dog as attacked before but the last little dog didn't make it. I think because I had a hold of Ollie that the Rotweiler couldn't take him off and shake him about. Fortunately the second dog just watched the attack and didn't join in, thankfully.
Once I calmed down I noticed that the attacking dog had his lead put on and a muzzle. I did question the owners as to why on earth this dog was off lead and they responded by saying, "he doesn't usually attack", although I have heard different. The owner then said to me to put Ollie down, which I refused to do until she had put the second dog off lead onto a lead. Can you believe she said to me, "oh he's alright, he wont hurt him". It was only two minutes ago that apparently the other one didn't attack!
I cleaned up Ollie's ear and I put my hand on his head to keep him still and noticed more blood on the top of his head.This time it was a small hole, a puncture from the tooth of the Rotweiler. Poor little Ollie. It has certainly made me wary and I am yet to take him back to the dog walk, which he used to enjoy. I won't be trusting any dogs at all from now and after receiving some sound advice from my MIC teamies, I will be carrying a spare lead to swing around and an umbrella.
So after my little rant I'd like to show you my DT card for Crafts and Me which has the theme of "Birthdays", nice and easy. I also placed this card onto the
Copic Marker Europe blog and if you haven't visited for a while, hop on over, there's lots of inspiration and tutorials. Right, lost my way again, I have used one of the new stamps from
Crafts and Me. They are all so beautiful I had difficulty choosing which one to colour up first. This image is called
Black Rose.
I have coloured her wings and bodice using one of my favourtie combo's, R85, R83, R81 and the colourless blender with R81 to blend out
I also used the COPIC Opaque White with a fine tipped paint brush and added white strokes to the wings. The Copic Opaque is so useful for adding highlights as well as creating snow.
For the skirt I used my Greys C5, C3, C1. For the skin combo I used E000, E00, E01, E11, and for the hair I have used C7, C5, C3 leaving small areas white for highlights.
The vine has been coloured using YG67, YG63, G20
Full list of Materials:-
Paper is very old from my stash, sorry there is no name on the back
Ribbon roses from my local craft shop Loobi Crafts
Fairy Wishes sentiment stamp is by Whimsey
Flowers by Prima and Wild Orchid Crafts
White Gesso for distressing
Cheesecloth
Copic Opaque
I hope I have inspired you today and I look forward to reading your comments.
I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:-
Paper shelter - pink
Rubys Rainbow - Something with wings
