Kitty Love- Cats Leave Pawprints on Your Heart

Hi Friends! 

I hope all of you are having a great week so far! Today, I am sharing this quick Mixed Media Clean and Layered card for the 2016 Cat Lover’s Blog Hop.

I absolutely love kitties and over the course of forty+ years, I have had six kitties (two sets of three)- my two remaining "girls" are twelve at this time and with the exception of needing to lose a bit of weight, are in good health.  They are my constant stamping companions and are always close to my side :-)  

I decided to use the Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps Kitty Love Clear Stamp Set for my card for the 2016 Cat Lover's Blog Hop and also incorporated the Mojo Monday Mojo471 Sketch Challenge, Global Design Project #GDP05 “Pets/Animals” Challenge and Simon Says Wednesday “Think Pink” Challenge.

If you have not already visited the above sites, I hope you will find the time to do so- wonderful inspiration from all!

To create this card:

Emboss a piece of white cardstock with the paw prints embossing folder, trim and mount onto the black card base.

Die cut a circle from pink patterned designer paper with a stitched circle die, layer onto the scallop die cut circle from white cardstock and trim to cut off the bottom edge (per the sketch) before mounting onto the card front.

Ink the SNSS Kitty Love Clear Stamp Set image along with the sentiment with black archival ink and stamp onto a piece of white cardstock.

Ink the paw print image from SNSS Kitty Love Clear Stamp Set three times with black archival ink onto scrap white cardstock.

Die cut the kitty image and fussy cut the three paw prints- mount onto the card front with dimensional foam.

Create the banner from the same pink patterned designer paper, mount onto black cardstock, add the heart clip and mount onto the card front using dimensional foam.

Finish off the card by applying shimmer to the paw prints with a clear glitter pen.

Stamp Sets:  Kitty Love (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)

Ink:  Stampin’ Archival™ Basic Black; Clear Wink of Stella®

Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, retired Love Blossoms DSP

Accessories: Big Shot™, Darice Paw Print Background Embossing Folder, MFT Stitched Circle and Stitched Square STAX Dies, Spellbinders Stately Circle Dies, retired Cute Clips hardware

Thanks for stopping by- your visits are such an encouragement to me!  Have a blessed week, my friends!

SNSS Kitty Love

All You Need is Love...And A Cat

Hello Friends!

I wanted to share a card that I created using the fun Kitty Love stamp set from Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps for the Splitcoaststampers CC565 Color Challenge along with the Ways toUse It WT573 “Pet Sitters” Challenge.

This is also one of the designs for the February 2016 Cards for A Cause Card Drive for the Tri-County Humane Society in Monticello, MN :-)

I hope you will find time to visit the above galleries, and if you are interested, please come join in on the Cards for A Cause card drive- March’s Cards for A Cause Card Drive information is here (FYI- last year Splitcoaststampers sent over 6300+ cards to worthy causes for the monthly card drives- what an honor to be part of that this year). 

To create this card:

Ink the stretching cat image from the Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps (SNSS) Kitty Love set using Stampin’ Up! Black Archival Ink and stamp onto Whisper White cardstock (I used my MISTI® Tool for alignment and repeated stamping to get the images nice and dark and I also sped up the ink drying time by heat setting the image with the Heat Tool).

Align the first part of the sentiment above the cat image and stamp using Stampin’ Up! Black Archival Ink (this is where the MISTI® really comes in handy for me).

Use a pencil to add the shadows for the kitty, cut out the cat panel and mount onto Basic Black cardstock. 

On a separate piece of Whisper White cardstock, stamp the rest of the sentiment along with a few paw prints using Stampin’ Up! Black Archival Ink, trim the sentiment, create the banner points with the Hexagon Punch, mount onto Basic Black cardstock ( again using the Hexagon Punch to create the banner points) and add a Real Red heart (from the Owl Builder Punch).

Add a piece of black and white designer  paper to a piece of Basic Black cardstock, mount onto the Whisper White card base, add the Real Red vertical panel and mount the kitty image panel directly to the card front.

Add the sentiment using dimensional foam to finish off the card.

Quick and simple- and I agree, the love of a cat is wonderful!!

Stamp Sets:  Kitty Love (SNSS)

Ink: Black Archival (Stampin’ Up!), Pencil

Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, retired Real Red DSP (Stampin’ Up!), Black and White designer paper from my stash

Accessories:  Big Shot™, MFT Stitched Rectangle Dies, Stampin’ Up! Punches- Hexagon, Owl Builder

Thanks again for taking the time to visit- hugs and have a blessed week, my friends!