pet memorial portrait

Finding the Perfect Pet Memorial Gifts

What is an Appropriate Gift When a Pet Dies? When a beloved pet passes away, it can be a heartbreaking experience. Choosing the right pet memorial gifts can help provide comfort and preserve precious memories.

We designed our collection of pet memorial gifts to offer a heartfelt way to honour your furry friend’s life. We use our special Italian Tintoretto Gesso thick paper for all our prints. It has a unique hammered felt texture that adds elegance and durability to each piece.

Loss of a pet

What to Do for a Friend Whose Pet Died?

One of the most meaningful things you can do is to give a thoughtful pet memorial gift. Our skilled designer makes designs and can talk with you about using a different image for a better outcome. This ensures peace of mind before the print arrives.

How Do You Make a Memorial Garden for a Dog?

Creating a memorial garden is a lovely way to honour a pet’s memory. It provides a peaceful space for reflection and remembrance.

You can start by selecting a special spot in your garden. Add plants, flowers, and perhaps a memorial stone or plaque. Our pet memorial gifts, especially our dog memorial gifts, can be an excellent addition to such a garden.

Thoughtful Features of Our Pet Memorial Gifts

Our products stand out for several reasons:

  • High-Quality Materials: We use signature Italian Tintoretto Gesso thick paper for all our prints. This paper has a hammered felt marked appearance that adds a unique and luxurious texture to each print.
  • Expert Design: All designs are created by an experienced graphic designer, ensuring each piece is beautifully crafted.
  • Personalised Service: We communicate with you if we feel another image would provide a better outcome. This ensures you receive the best possible print, giving you peace of mind before it arrives.

Choosing the right pet memorial gifts, dog memorial gifts, or losing a pet gift can make a significant difference in how you and your loved ones remember a cherished pet. Whether it’s a beautifully designed print or the creation of a memorial garden, these gestures help keep the memory of our furry friends alive.

When it comes to memorialising pets, our focus is on providing high-quality, personalised products that honour their memory in the most heartfelt way possible. Whether you’re looking for a gift for yourself or a friend, our collection offers something for everyone. By choosing our pet memorial gifts, you’re not just getting a product; you’re receiving a piece of art that truly captures the spirit of your beloved pet.

Other wonderful pet memorial gift ideas

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personalised pet memorial plaque
Why choose us?

Our wonderful quality & options

Dog Portrait Paper

Finest Paper

We work with the most stunning felt marked Tintoretto Gesso paper which will compliment your dog portraits beautifully.

Dog Portrait

Background Options

You may choose to have a simple light grey watercolour behind your dog or include the original background that appears in the photograph. Alternatively, we can do an artistic mix of both of those options.

Pet Portraits, Wedding Stationery & Personalised Family Prints

Framing

We can also supply our pet portraits framed, in a traditional natural real wood frame or a modern white or black painted wood frame.

Two Portrait Styles

Which one is your style?

classic pet portrait

Classic

A classic pet portrait captures the timeless essence of your beloved animal, highlighting their unique personality and charm.

modern pet portraits

Modern

A modern pet portrait showcases your pet’s individuality with contemporary style and vibrant creativity.

Our pet portraits are unique to you as a pet owner, the watercolour style has been the same since 2016 and will remain the same for years to come. Making it a perfect way to collect pet portraits of all your beloved pets for a consistent design across your framed prints at home.

We work with the most stunning felt marked Tintoretto Gesso paper which will compliment your pet portraits beautifully. This is available in two thicknesses, which has a subtle difference, the felt mark is ever so slightly deeper on the 300gsm in comparison to the 250gsm. You can read more about the paper on our paper guide page, if you have any further questions, please get in touch.

Your pet portrait is totally unique to you, you may choose to have a simple light grey watercolour behind your pet or include the original background that appears in the photograph. This is a great idea if your pet is sitting in its favourite spot or running through a bluebell meadow to add some personality to portrait of your pet.

Alternatively, we can do an artistic mix of both of those options, this is recommended if your pet is photographed with a slight covering, ie blanket is covering its paw or your pet is laying in long grass.

Whichever you decide, our creative team will work their magic on your personalised pet portrait.

Our dog portraits can be tweaked into a memorial print is a wonderful alternative to a traditional photograph, and we will capture their unique characteristics and spirit in a creative way, making our pet art a touching tribute to the memory of your dog. You can choose to add a little ‘In loving memory‘ text above your beloved pets name and even add a special message below, making this a wonderful memorial keepsake.

We pride ourselves on our high-quality prints, and we do need high resolution images to ensure this is achieved. If possible, you could take a new image using the highest resolution setting option on your camera or smartphone.

We know that in many cases it might not be possible to send a brand-new image across, so please send any potential photographs to our team and we will do our best to help.

Please see our guide for Top Tips to Photograph Your Pet for a Portrait

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We can also supply our pet portraits framed, Whether you choose a traditional natural real wood frame or a modern white or black painted wood frame, we guarantee to provide a range of options which will suit every interior style.

You can read more on our framing by clicking here.

Custom pet portraits make a perfect gift for a pet owner, with many of our customers sending their favourite photographs for us to turn into unique pet art. From birthdays and Christmas gifts to anniversaries and other special occasions, our traditional watercolour pet portraits will create a focal point in any room.

We believe that pets share a special place in their families, and every home should be adorned with images of beloved pets. We only use the best quality materials in our pet illustrations, so you can be sure that your gift will arrive in perfect condition ready to be treasured for many years. From images of cats in their garden, to dogs on their favourite walk and horses at a sporting event, we can transform any great photograph into a stunning piece of pet art.

We understand just how heart-breaking it can be to lose a much-loved companion, which is why our team take such care to create beautiful pet illustrations for those who have suffered the loss of a pet.  A pet portrait memorial print is a wonderful alternative to a traditional photograph, and we will capture their unique characteristics and spirit in a creative way, making our pet art a touching tribute to the memory of your pet.

Our pet portraits are digitally created with high quality photographs, our graphic designers use digital brushes and the latest design software to create a portrait of your pet that is life-like yet affordable. Hand-painted can often mean – expensive, also without spending a huge budget, hand-painted may not ‘capture’ the character of your pet as well as our digitally created approach.

Dog Portrait

The Order Process

  1. Simply choose which style portrait you’d like, upload your image and select background style and size/finish.
  2. We will create your digital watercolour pet portraits and add your personalisation.
  3. You can request a design proof of your pet portrait, however this is optional. Once your design is complete, we’ll send to print or to be framed.
  4. When your order is ready we will dispatch in a timely manner your pet portrait will be delivered to your door!
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Image Check

Please feel free to send you image or images to us and we’ll let you know what if your image has the quality we need to create this dog portrait print.

Theo Paphitis award winning small business www.createdbymagic.com

Award Winning

Our award winning pet portraits regularly win over fans, which makes us very happy here at Created By Magic! We’re also delighted to be supported as a small business, with our dog portraits now officially award-winning.