Mon Memory 151~ Daughter's 2024 Birthday Card: Muddy Puddle Dog

  

For those of you that

follow my card making moments 

for my family's birthdays

you know that the cards

 reflect on life events 

of their previous year. 

So here is my daughter's memory.

It is similar to her hubby's card this past Jan.

Because Louie came into their family.

My daughter has tremendous patience with him.

She has always absolutely without a doubt loved EVERY

dog no matter their tendencies. 

When she posted this picture she wrote:

 

"Third time in 3 days. We covered his made mudhole with a lot of straw. He goes out to potty and even with supervision he is in it going to town. Crazy mess to even walk him to the tub."

 

 Fact is, Louie is a true water dog.

I think he could live in it.

So her sister and I believe he is smart enough

to know how to get to take a bath

and be in warm water.

So naturally her card had to be about Louie in the mud puddle. 

 

Started with butterfly, roses background.

Paused to start hand drawing with heat sensitive pen

to guide machine thread sketching. 

I decided I had enough of the 60's vibe fabric for background.

Thank you Lenita for the donated fabric.

My daughter has seemed to have an appreciation for the 60's

She's a bell bottom pants kinda person.
 The fabric gave me the feeling of

flowers fallen into the mud puddle? 

So I made another drawing on the white scrap fabrics

(acquired years ago on a 127 yard sale in Ohio)

 

I don't usually glue something inside,

but for this one I did.

The flower I fussy cut from fabric earlier.

An afternoon spent

making a birthday card of a memory

is always a well spent afternoon.

 

By the way

here is last year's card.

Very simple to make

She once had a dog that look similar

but not a white one last year.

I was just envisioning this dog of the past

 in the daffodil fields she 

loves to visit every spring around her birthday.

 Then only a couple of weeks ago

she posted this picture

of Louie down on her childhood farm

she still gets to visit.

 Can memories return?