Pumpkin Kitty

Good Morning everyone

Today im sharing an autumnal card.  It started life as a 6x6 sheet of full on orange glitter card with a printed jack O'Lantern pumpkin in the middle.  Ive teamed it up with printed paper from a different brand and the cat and flowers from a 3rd brand to make my card for a friend who loves her garden, cats and pumpkins.

6x6" black card blank.

I cut the pumpkin out of the middle of the orange glitter card and matted the beautiful paper onto it and added to the card front.  I adhered the pumpkin to the middle with pinflair glue gel then arranged the cat and floral spray after cutting them out - also added with pinflair glue gel.  The colours from the floral spray cut from the Ciao bella papers goes perfectly with the background paper from 13arts.  

Usually i don't leave a white border around anything i cut out but in this case I felt it needed it to help it stand out from the background otherwise the black printing of the cat and black flowers would have melded into the dark pumpkin.

The chat sticker was in a halloween chit chat book from Tim Holtz and fit perfectly to finish.

My friend has ragdoll cats so the complete opposite of this little black kitty who looks like my little Suki. In the UK it is still mostly considered lucky to have a  black cat cross your path....which is just as well as where I live 85% of cats are black.

Its a shame the photos don't show the amazing colour and shimmer of the orange glitter paper and pumpkin as it really is full on sparkle.  

This is how the pumpkin started, its a very very sparkly all over orange glitter paper which was too much for me, so I cut out the pumpkin in the middle and used the rest of it for matting my patterned paper onto...the cat image hides the face and gives it a totally different look and feel.  I was given a few sheets so don't know the brand but they are a few years old now. 

Items Used:

13arts 6x6 paper pad 'end of summer'

Ciao Bella junk journal 'The witch's grimoire'

Glitter pumpkin paper - brand unknown

Tim Holtz halloween chat sticker

Black card

Id love to join in the following:

  

https://inspirationstationchallenge.blogspot.com/2026/10/inspiration-station-challenge-october.html - cats on pumpkins insp.

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https://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2026/10/challenge-851.html

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https://lovethoseprettypaperspart2.blogspot.com/2026/10/love-those-pretty-papers-october-2026.html

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https://inkspirationalchallenges.blogspot.com/2026/10/inkspirational-challenge-379-visual.html

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https://www.simplyellibelle.com/2026/10/ellibelles-garden-party-no-20-anything.html

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https://timeoutchallenges.blogspot.com/2026/10/challenge-324.html

 

WLS April #2 - Spring

Good Morning everyone

Time for some mid month inspiration for We Love Stamping where the theme this month is 

SPRING

Or we always have the anything goes option as long as you use stamping

This is the 2nd outing for this beautiful carabelle sparrow stamp this month, very seasonal with the cherry blossom I think.  

7x7" scalloped card blank

I first stamped the sparrow stamp onto white card with dark blue ink & watercoloured with derwent inktense pencils and cut out - it is one stamp but by stamping the floral part several times its given me more scope and creativity. 

I took a piece of 12x12" spring paper and matted onto pink mirri card and then  the card front.  I die cut a frame from white card and adhered to the front with 2mm foam tape....before adhering i worked out where to stamp the sparrow words and stamped these direct onto the paper and then adhered the frame.

I had previously die cut snippets of inked backgrounds into foliage which has mica onto it so shimmers in the light and arranged these along with the sparrow and cherry blossoms.

Just a close up.  It wasn't until after it was made I realised I didn't make too good a choice with my placement on the backing paper - that line down through the wording is part of a woodplank print....all Id concentrated on was avoiding the areas with lots of print 😦  

I added the sparrow and blossoms with pinflair glue gel for dimension and shape.  

 

Items Used:

Carabelle studio stamp SA60534E 'Field bird #3'

13@rts 12x12 paper pad 'pastel spring'

Foliage dies

Derwent inktense pencils

Craft consortium pink mirror card

Cosmic shimmer airless misters pearl green & yellow

We have these lovely stamps from lavinia for the lucky winner this month so hop over to We Love Stamping to join in with your stamped creations.

Id love to enter the following:

 

https://inspirationstationchallenge.blogspot.com/2026/04/inspiration-station-challenge-april.html - inspired by the colours and flowers

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https://lovethoseprettypapers.blogspot.com/2026/04/love-those-pretty-papers-april-2026.html - 13@rts paper pad 'pastel spring'

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https://craftrocketchallenges.blogspot.com/2026/04/challenge-135-layer-it-up.html

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https://craftygalscornerchallenges.blogspot.com/2026/04/challenge-276-anything-goes-woptional.html

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https://www.simplyellibelle.com/2026/04/ellibelles-garden-party-no-14-anything.html

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https://movingalongwiththetimes.blogspot.com/2026/04/challenge-188-anything-spring.html

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Cherry Blossom

Good Morning everyone

Today Im sharing a little gift I made for a friend, its a wooden book shaped box which I decided to turn into a kind of shadow box which can be displayed stood up and open.  I used a beautiful paper set I got back in the black friday sales with a spring theme. I used a mix of the 12x12 and 6x6 papers and found the images work well together for creating my little scenes.  It is unusual for me not to add anything else other than the chat stickers but was nice and relaxing when I was feeling a bit rough over Christmas time to not think too much about matching things and just use what was in the sets.

I forgot to measure the box before I posted it, but it isn't very big, if i remember correctly its about 5x3" and 1" deep

I painted the box with matt acrylic paints in shades to match the papers, so ive picked out the blue, pink and soft yellow, I painted the outside blue, the inside pink and the sides yellow.  I then cut one of the papers to fit the front and decoupaged with matt mod podge.  I then cut out the little girl catching a cherry blossom, some branches and little bird.  I tore a couple of pieces of paper to add as some ground for her to stand on and a couple of smaller flowers and sealed it all with more mod podge.

The chit chat stickers are by aall&create on the front here I added 'admire divine blossom' as thought that worked - there is something magical about the first blossoms of spring and how they lift our spirits. 

This shows it stood up open on display, it nicely stands up by itself.  I lightly added pink cadence dora paint to the edges for a little shimmer in the light 

On the inside left I added one of the papers and cut out elements of this cherry blossom wreath which I added the little cross legged girl inside and surrounded with different sized flowers.  A little birdie sits on top of the wreath.  I added a little touch of diamond stickles glitter glue to the flower centres for just a little sparkle 

Chat stickers say 'Enjoy serenity, experience enlightenment'

Just spending quiet time in the garden or anywhere with nature, sit and listen and its very calming and healing.  A kind of meditation against the hassle of life. 

I adhered the paper girl on swing to study acetate and cut around her, thus giving her stability and strength, i then added score lines at the top of the 'ropes' to adhere to the top of the box so that she actually moves and get swing forward and back.  I then added some cherry blossoms in front of the ropes to hide the workings - these I also added on acetate so nice and strong and wont damage as the swing moves. 

Below the swinging girl we have  a blossom branch with a little birds nest and bird.  I added glossy accents to the eggs.

Chat stickers read 'Achieve happiness'

Once you have done your meditation in the garden and breathed in the scent of the blossom and listened to the birds singing its is happiness and of course who then doesn't love a go on a swing😁  These bags of chat words from aall&create contain hundreds of words so I was going boggle eyed looking for some to suit that weren't too gushy! 

and the back of the box, just the same paper as the front.  Everything was coated in mod podge to varnish and protect it as it will be handled a bit. 

Items Used:

13arts paper 'Pastel Spring' 6x6 & 12x12 

Aall&create chat stickers

Wooden box

Folk art matt paint 

Cadence Dora paint - fuchsia 

Mod podge

acetate

Ranger Stickles 'diamond'

Id love to enter the following:

https://tolanythingbutacard.blogspot.com/ - anything goes option

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https://www.simplyellibelle.com/2026/01/ellibelles-garden-party-no-11-anything.html

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https://lovethoseprettypapers.blogspot.com/2026/01/atg-using-pretty-patterned-paper.html

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https://girlzcreativefunartofscrap.blogspot.com/2026/01/challenge-18.html