Good Morning everyone
Today is time for a fun Christmas card using these fun cat stamps from aall&create, i decided to use an old wreath die set from Tonic studios with them.
7x7" card base. I first made my background by stamping onto white card with soft tone distress inks and Christmas and winter themed word stamps, using multiple generations of stamping until no ink left on the stamp. I then embossed this panel with a 'knitted' effect embossing folder - picking up on the idea that the cats are wearing jumpers - hard to make out the embossing in the photo but it is there!
I cut matt gold card slightly smaller than the card front and then from the middle of it die cut the wreath die - this I could then use for the card front and make the gold card go further as i knew it would be hidden behind my background. I cut the wreath die again from card i had previously inked with green brushos and pixie powders - i off set the gold and green wreaths and adhered to the card front with glue gel.
I stamped the cats, simply coloured with alcohol markers and cut out. I added glossy accents to their noses, frosted lace glitter onto the hot chocolate cream and diamond stickles onto the fairy lights. To finish i added stickles to the berries on the wreath - on this version I used 'cosmic' which is a purple base with pink tones in the glitter which matched the colours id used to colour their jumpers.
Version 2 - different colours and i used red stickles on the berries and this one has 2 of the hot cocoa cats rather than the 2 fairy light cats on the first card and on this one i added 2 die cut bows to the top of the wreath.
I really don't fancy putting a jumper on any of my cats - I think serious injury would occur.....to me😀
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Version 3 - A5 size - I used copper satin cardstock for my base card, the wreath base layer and to mat behind the sentiment alpha's. I die cut individual alphas to spell 'meowy christmas' for a fun pun
You can see the copper satin better here, when the light hits it, it really does shine
and version 4 - more mossy green tones here
Items Used:
aall&create stamps #740 'light it up' & 'Seaons'
Clearly besotted stamps 'seasonal sentiments'
Tonic studios die - the four seasons loving winter
Alpha tile dies
crafters companion 8x8 embossing folder 'purl'
Brushos
Cosmic shimmer Pixie powders
alcohol markers
Ranger Stickles - frosted lace, diamond, cosmic & Christmas red
Gold & Copper satin cardstock
CraftUk ltd smooth white card
Thank you for stopping by once again and all your previous comments which i always appreciate. I hope you are keeping warm in this cold snap - although down here its just been torrential rain so no snow......until this morning, opened the curtains to white out😁 Big hugs Emmaxxx
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4 comments:
A fantastic set of cards Ginny x
A fabulous fun set of cards which any cat lover would cherish
Adorable Christmas cards! Love those cute kitty images. The die cut wreath is beautiful and gives even more dimension with two of them stacked together. Thanks for sharing at A Cut Above's November Anything Goes With A Die Cut Challenge.
Fabulous fun cards, love the cute cats and die-cut wreath-we had snow yesterdsy but rain first so thankfully it didn't settle.
Carol x
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