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Friday, 8 August 2025

Alice is 10 - cats & books

Good Morning everyone

My middle niece Alice is 10 this month.  She loves reading and cats so ive combined the two with these fab katzelkraft stamps and made a tri fold card which contains 2 bookmarks to Alice to use

The front of the card.  Its A4 folded 3 times so each section is 4x8.25" .  I stamped the cat images onto white card and coloured with alcohol markers.  I stamped the sentiment and then lightly stenciled on pawprints with cracked pistachio oxide ink, I then die cut into a panel and matted onto rainbow printed cardstock. 

I founded a printed paper in my stash that had a subtle blue pattern, matted onto blue holographic and then the card front.  I tied a double bow from the 2 ribbons ive used on the bookmarks.

I used blue holographic for my mat layer as when the light hits it it is rainbow colours to tie in with the image and every girl loves a bit of sparkle.

Showing the card opened up.  I made the bookmarks the same way as the front topper, this rainbow card is double sided so looks as great on the back of the bookmark as the front.  

I made pockets for the bookmarks using the same paper as the background and adding foam to the sides and bottom, leaving the top unstuck so the bookmark can slide in and out

So that when the bookmarks are removed it still looks good I stamped the cats a 2nd time, coloured in with alcohol markers and cut out, I adhered them to the pockets to line up with the bookmarks.

I doodled a line under the books with fineliner and shaded with grey alcohol marker to 'ground' the books and stop them floating in mid air

and the bookmarks front and back.  This rainbow card came in a pack from Lidl and is nice and stiff so ideal for bookmarks, I haven't laminated them as you know how childrens tastes change yearly but I know Alice will enjoy these bookmarks for as long as they do last.  I added stamped cats and pawprints to the back of the bookmarks for a little interest.  Punched a hole at the top and threaded with ribbons.  

Items Used:
Katzelkraft cat stamp set
Creative craft stamps 'fur babies'
Clearly besotted birthday stamp 'something to say'
DL stitched edge dies
Pawprint stencil
Oxide ink 'cracked pistachio'
Alcohol markers
Rainbow cardstock from Lidl
Blue holographic card 

Thank you all for stopping by.  Emma


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6 comments:

  1. What a lovely idea for your Niece's card Emma, images, design and colours looks just right to appeal to that age group.

    B x

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  2. I'm sure Alice will love this card and what a great idea to incorporate some bookmarks for her to use. Thanks for sharing this animal-themed project with us for the Allsorts challenge

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  3. Me again, forgot to thank you for sharing with us at Allsorts, perfect creation for our Animal theme.

    B x

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  4. A gorgeous screen card lovely bow
    Have a good weekend Ginny x

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  5. Alice will love this card and the bookmarks Emma it's stunning

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  6. Fabulous tri fold card, love the cats and beautiful bookmarks.
    Carol x
    Thank you for joining us at Dragonfly Dreams.
    Carol DT x

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