Falloween Cat

It's Thursday night pop pickers and that can only mean Top of the Pops... how many of us of a certain age (in the UK) will remember that eh? But in my case it means arse to the wire to get my Designed 2 Delight freebie made into a card. It has been coloured for days but unfortunately real life tends to get in the way of cardmaking and for some reason husbands need to be fed you know, I mean what's that all about?

Anyhoo, as I do not do Halloween I decided to make this likkle puddy cat into a card for a friend who has got a card Tink who is a proper fluffy ginger tom, thus he was the inspiration for colouring the cat in the gorgeous shades of Pumpkin and Spice with my Promarkers.

I have used a Kraft base, used the funky square paper from Dovecraft Animal antics pad from their First Edition range. The brown squared paper is a magazine freebie which I made a disasterous attempt at stamping in white ink on and has been consigned to my scraps box. This is matted onto white card from the 'scraps of white card box'. I have used a Fiskars punch to make use of some leftover Kraft strips behind the puddy cat and he has been mounted onto 3d foam.

I had used the latest sketch from Cutie Sunday for the layout so added some flowers in the relevant places made from Prima Daisies and Wild Orchid Cherry Blossoms with some gold Stickles in the middles. Last but not least the sentiment from my stash has been matted onto some brown card and raised up on 3d foam.

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – 6” Square

Image – Falloween Cat by Designed 2 Delight

Sketch – Cutie Sunday

Paper – Dovecraft for main square paper and all other papers and cardstock are from scraps.

Sentiment – from stash

Embellishments – prima Daisies, Wild Orchid Cherry Blossoms, Stickles glitter glue

Tools – Scissors, 3d foam, Fiskars Treading water Punch, Nestabilities Die

Techniques – Distressing with small inkpad, punching, die cutting

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

• 2 Sisters Challenge #55 – Friends
• Art With No Boundaries – Anything Goes
• Cards For Men #18 – G is for …Ginger Tom
• Craft Your Passion #74 – Use Flowers
• Crafty Boots Challenge #1 – Anything Goes
• Creative Card Crew – Anything Goes
• Creative Stamp Friends #33 – Card for a Man
• Cutie Sunday #148 – Sketch For Layout
• Delightful Inspiration – Progressive freebie image
• Digistamps 4 Joy #27 – Colours of Autumn
• Forever Friends – Use Your Dies
• Fresh Brewed Designs #63 – Use Something New (digi)
• Fun With Shapes & More #91 – Anything Goes
• Jules Crafty Snippets #35 – All items except base card and main paper are snippets J
• Let’s Craft & Create #27 – Blast From the Past (#25 Use a Digi)
• Lexi’s Creations #48 – Autumn (colours)
• Make It Monday #53 – Link Up Party
• My Time To Craft #156 – Friends
• Paper Variety – Your Fave paper Company (Dovecraft)
• Papertake Weekly #64 – Anything Goes
• Pile It On #36 – Brown, blossoms, bling
• Speedy The Cat’s Friends #71 – Bring on the Bling
• Stamptacular Sunday #127 – The Sky’s The Limit
• Stamp n Doodle – Anything Goes
• Stamp Something – September Digi Day
• Stamp With Fun #127 – Autumn (colours)
• Stamps R Us - Friendship
• Sunday’s With Crissy #21 - Friendship
• Sweet Stampin’ Challenge – Anything But A Birthday
• Whoopsi Daisy – Bling