Hello, Crafters.
Weekends always go too fast, but I hope you’ve enjoyed yours, and are feeling fully refreshed for this new week. As a cat-lover I’ve wanted to play with this stamp set for quite some time, but just didn’t have any ideas! Then I came up with what I though was a great idea, and set to work on it! Unfortunately it didn’t work out, so it’s on the back burner until I can tweak my idea so it does work! By the time I had reached this stage, I had so many different images I’d stamped, punched, and die cut, I stayed with the Nine Lives Stamp Set!
I wanted to use the TRUE LOVE sentiment but without the “has four paws”. It was easy to cover the second half of the sentiment with tape, and ink and stamp. I noticed the JUST FUR YOU sentiment in the Happy Tails Stamp Set, and I thought it went together brilliantly with the TRUE LOVE sentiment. I chose the Designer Series Paper (DSP) design from Share What You Love because I think it looks like paw prints! Real Red is not the kind of colour I would normally choose to go with Crumb Cake, but it has worked well. I think I was thinking Valentine’s Day!
To die cut the TRUE LOVE sentiment, I used a small die from the Bunch of Banners Framelits. It fitted beautifully, and the JUST FUR YOU fitted the Classic Label Punch perfectly, too! It makes a lovely change to be able to use a different die, and a punch for each of the sentiments, rather than having them matchy, matchy! LOL! After I had cut the strip of Crumb Cake to go across the card, as well as the Crumb Cake circle for the cat to sit on, I decided to emboss both pieces using the Subtle Dynamic Embossing Folder. I wrapped a piece of Real Red Ribbon around the strip, and tied it in a bow. There is a two step stamping bow in the stamp set, and I stamped three of them which I fussy cut. However I tried to arrange them, it made the card look too fussy! I put one on the cat’s neck like a collar, and that didn’t work either because the cat looks quite masculine. I cut the two tails off one of the bows and created a bow tie. This looked so much better! To finish the front of my card I added some Rhinestones.
To decorate the inside of my card, I adhered a Crumb Cake cat I had stamped earlier. I didn’t use it on the front of my card, because I didn’t think the colour was quite right with everything else that was going on. But it looked perfect on the inside, and it also looked like a female cat, so the bow on the neck was perfect.
No promises, but today I’ll try and use the Happy Tails Stamp Set. I have an idea in my mind; I just hope it’s more practical than my Nine Lives idea was yesterday! LOL! That’s it from me today. I hope you have a marvellous Monday and I’ll be back tomorrow. In the meantime, happy crafting.
JanB. xx
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