Lawn Fawn + PageMaps Sketch = Cowboy Pup?

I was wanting to make a card for my uncle who recently had surgery and as usual I had not a creative clue. So I did what I always do when I'm clueless (and yes I am blonde, it's a problem)....I look at the blogs and photostreams of my oh-so-not-clueless friends. I found some real beauties over on Lin's blog, she's been my unofficial muse lately. She did a bunch of cards using the sketch from Page Maps and it was just the spark I needed to do something fun.
Now normally I don't play nice with sketches, I like to mix 'em up and take things out or add things; but I challenged myself to let this sketch dictate and I followed it exactly. I knew I wanted to use the sentiment from the Lawn Fawn set, On the Mend so I searched through my paper stash and found some manly prints from Cosmo Cricket's Wanted collection. My uncle is a friend to dogs so the little pup from Critters in the Burbs came out to play...and to keep with the western theme of the paper, I put a rugged cowboy hat on him from Hats Off to You.

The chipboard letter stickers are from the Wanted collection.
Thanks again, Lin, what would I do without you!

I'm also entering this in the Wee Memories Challenge #64- Masculine.  As I was linking this at Wee Memories, I noticed the card before mine uses papers and chipboard from the same CC collection, it's a great card too. Such a co-inky-dink!

 ~ Psalm 40:4 ~

"Oh the joys of those who trust the Lord,

who have no confidence in the proud....."

blessings,
nancy