Layered with Love: A Beautiful German Shepherd Handmade Card with Floral Touches

February 20, 2025

🐾 Introducing the New Paws & Petals Collection – German Shepherd Sheet! 🐾

I’m so excited to share the latest addition to the Paws & Petals Collection – The German Shepherd Topper Sheet! 🐶💜

You can find this beautiful digital download on the website now here - - https://shop.obyd.co.uk/b/OGkTV

For this card, I paired it with the Purple Floral Passion Paper (also available on the website), plus some gold mirror card and a lovely pale lilac embossed card I had left over from another project. ✂️✨

I also added some gorgeous Spellbinders flower and foliage die cuts to complete the look!

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You can find everything here:

The Paws and Petals Cardmaking topper sheet - https://shop.obyd.co.uk/b/OGkTV

Purple Floral Passion Paper - https://shop.obyd.co.uk/b/QLGpY

Gold mirror card - https://amzn.to/4i8RHx9

8x8 Card blank - https://amzn.to/3QtfiNs

Spellbinders foliage die - https://amzn.to/3XbfowR

Spellbinders flower die - https://amzn.to/4163BkE

Spellbinders flower forming tool set -https://amzn.to/4i1SQqm

I coloured the leaves in with my green marker - https://amzn.to/4hHQKwj

I also coloured my flowers in with my purple promarker - there are lots of singles and sets available for you to have a look at here in their Amazon store: https://amzn.to/4gKQACY

Ranger Liquid pearls were used for the flower centres - https://amzn.to/3X8kGJw

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Thank you for looking, happy crafting as always! A xo

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