Wishing you a purr-fect birthday

Hello and good morning crafty peeps! Here's a card I made yesterday while playing in my craft room. (It was raining on and off all day. What better way to spend the day?!)

I die cut the crazy double stitches first, then stamped and heat embossed my kitty in gold embossing powder. Then I embossed the panel with the swirls, also using a folder frame so that the kitty didn't get embossed. The area that didn't get embossed left a fair bit of flat space above the kitty, so I searched my stickers for tiny hearts. These are Mrs. Grossman's stickers. Remember those?! I stamped the sentiment using my MISTI (It's actually 3 separate stamps. Using a MISTI really helps to line the words up evenly!), then heat embossed the sentiment onto black card stock and adhered with foam squares. Another CAS card - I must be possessed! LOL!

That's all I have for now. The oppressive heat finally broke last night here in the mid-Atlantic region. I'm going to go an enjoy it! Have a great day, and stay crafty my friends!

I'd like to enter this card at:
STAMPlorations August CAS card challenge
STAMPlorations never ending ATG challenge
Can You Case It? #134

 

Supplies:
Stamps: STAMPlorations - Pets
Ink: VersaMark
CS: Bazzill; Darice
Accessories: GC; CUTplorations - Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangle dies; Cuttlebug - EF; Stampendous - Champagne gold EP; heat gun; Mrs. Grossman's - heart stickers; Darice - folder frame
Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, thin 3D foam squares

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #49 X is for X-mas (Part II)

Hello all! For those of you who celebrate, I hope you had a wonderful Christmas holiday! I'm just popping in to remind you that the SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS still has the current Christmas challenge going on - perfect for those of you who need to make a quick card because you forgot to mail one out. (wink!) Fortunately that didn't happen to me this year.

This card I made for my friends and next door neighbors. They lost both their fur babies earlier this year, two sibling kitties, so I when I saw this image I knew I wanted to use it for their card:

 Here's the inside:

No snark this time, just cuteness. ☺I tried to color the kitties to resemble their fur babies. Not exactly right, but close. After I colored the image with my Spectrum Noir markers, I took a deep breathe and went over the kitties with a black PrismaColor pencil to add 'fur'. Luckily for me, it worked out. Here's a close up:

I hope you find some time to play along at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers for this month long Christmas challenge! Take care, and I hope you have a great day!

Spectrum Noir markers used:

cats: BG2, BG3, BG4; IG3, IG6, IG9

ribbon/berries: CR7, DR4, DR6, DR7

leaves: LG3, LG4, JG5

diamonds: CT4, GB7

ornament: CT4, GB7, TN3, IB1

I'd like to enter this at:

Can You Case It? #100

Spectrum Noir December challenge - CAS

Supplies:

Stamps: The East Wind - Meowy Christmas digi; Simon Says Stamp - Warm Christmas Wishes; Hero Arts - Merry Christmas Message

Ink: VersaMark; Memento - Tuxedo Black; Color Box - Gold

DP: HOTP

CS: Crafter's Companion; Darice

Accessories: Spectrum Noir Markers;  PrismaColor black pencil; Sakura - White Gelly Roll pen; Stampendous - Champagne EP; heat gun

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, Thin 3D foam squares 

SHOPPING OUR STASH #230 - UFO's: Use an UnFinished Object

Good morning all! This week at SHOPPING OUR STASH, we challenge you to use UFO'S! You know, those bits and pieces that are piling up on your desk, the things you started to use then decided, nah. Well, now's your chance to get them off your desk and onto a card or project! This challenge came in handy, as I've amassed quite a big UFO pile. Here's what I made with some of it:

and the inside:

My UFO's: that stenciled panel made a couple months ago; the mint tag; the foam and vellum snowflakes. I even used one of a gazillion brads for the center of the snowflakes! I used all the 'o's from the pack of Thickers, so I MacGyvered one by cutting it out of the number 9. (That's why it looks butchered...because it is.) ☺

So, got stuff on your desk that you meant to use but decided not to? Well, now's the perfect challenge to use some of it! Link up your card or project at Shopping Our Stash so we can see it, and let us know what your UFO's are! Please do yourself a favor by visiting my teammates blogs to see their creations, and leave them some love! Thanks for visiting, and I hope you get some crafty time in today!

I'd like to enter this card at:

Can You Case It #98 - sketch

Addicted to CAS #78 - Joy

 


Supplies:
Stamps: Hero Arts - Merry Christmas Message
Ink: Memento - Lady Bug
CS: Bazzill; Darice; scrap
Accessories: Dreamweaver embossing paste; Studio Calico - chevron mask; GC; Avery Elle - Pierced Rectangle die; Paper Smooches - snowflake die; Recollection - vellum; Creatology - foam snowflake sticker; SN marker; AC Thickers; ribbon and brad from my stash; piercing tool; hole puncher
Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, 3D & Thin 3D foam squares; Glue Dots

Getting inky....again.

Hello all and happy hump day to you! I recently made the 45 minute trip to the closest LSS in my area, and did some retail therapy. I went there mostly to get my hands on some new dies by Memory Box. (So the next few cards I post may have one of them incorporated into my design. Just sayin.) Anyhooo, here's one of them:

 Here is the inside of the card:

I'm so very behind making Christmas cards. But it's been a rather crappy first part of the year, what with my FIL passing away, my Dad's health getting worse due to Dementia, and my fur baby being diagnosed with Epilepsy, well, cards didn't get made. So, I'm endeavoring to try to catch up as much as possible. 

I used a couple distress inks for the background, nice light colors, then misted it with pearl Glimmer Mist, to add some shimmer. (Gotta have shimmer!) Once that dried, I used a stencil and embossing paste to add some 'falling snow'. That panel, once dried, was adhered to the card base. The top panel was die cut with one of the new dies I mentioned above, and adhered with foam squares. All the white space around it was making me all itchy, so I framed it with some rhinestone strips. (I was so relieved when I realized the as of yet unopened pack of rhinestones came in strips! Can you imagine how friggin long it would have taken me to add them around the die cut?!!!) A simple sentiment finishes the inside.

I've made this card based off of Merry Monday #168 - Use pastels and also Can You Case It #81 - use green, blue, and purple. 

 

So, that's it for now. The maid needs to go and do some more housework. (Me being the maid.) Thanks for stopping by and I hope that you have a great day!

Supplies:
Stamps: Hero Arts - Merry Christmas Message
Ink: Ranger DI - Shaded Lilac, Shabby Shutters
CS: Bazzill, Recollections
Accessories: GC; Memory Box - Woodland Oval die; Heidi Swapp stencil; Dreamweaver embossing paste; Nicole rhinestones; Tattered Angels pearl Glimmer Mist
Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, 3D foam squares