#1127 – Pumpkin Kitty

PE: Honorable Mention at The Card Concept!!

Hello and welcome!! It’s time for another challenge at Seize the Birthday and this time, our newest member Nance is the leading lady and she has given us the topping ‘Favorite Fall Treat‘. The topping is optional and we always have our ‘Anything Goes‘ option open.

Here’s what I made –

I don’t have that many products related to Fall treats – but I spotted this Boo Kitty stamp from Pink & Main and though that with a little partial stamping, I could turn this Halloween Kitty into a Fall Treat Kitty. I used my Misti and stamped the cat and pumpkin only skipping the mask on the kitty and the face carving on the pumpkin on a piece of Fabriano Accademia Disegno Drawing paper. I then colored the image using Faber Castell Polychromos pencils. I then fussy cut the image and set it aside.

For the card, I planned to use two pieces of pattern paper – I wanted to have a tag or central die cut shape but that didn’t work. In the end I just chose the pattern paper for the background, added a frame die cut from Kraft cardstock. I used two pieces of dies to get the frame – Neat and Tangled Scalloped and Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangles. I die cut a couple more pieces to add some dimension behind the frame. Did the same for the two leaves, which I die cut using My Favorite Things Birds of a Feather. I added these two pieces to fill in the whitespace – that cat alone was looking so lonely!

For the sentiment, I used a banner die cut from Neat and Tangled Scalloped and after die cutting it from the kraft card stock, I stamped it using a sentiment from My Favorite Things Cat-itude using Versafine Onyx black pigment ink. I die cut two of them for stability and then adhered it on the card.

To be frank, I feel like the coloring is actully looking better IRL – this picture doesn’t capture the shading quite well – editing photos to make them look exactly – or even mostly like reality – is really though!!

So anyway, that’s my card for the fall treat! And I’m joining these challenge with it –

Neglected Stuff challenge #1025: Anything Goes – I haven’t used this stamp set, which I believe was given free on a purchase I made more than 5 years ago! So glad I finally got to use it!

We Love Stamping October challenge: Anything Autumn or Anything Goes – I’ve used the autumn theme here

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge #504: Any Occasion

The Card Concept #220: Autumn Days

Checkout what treat the rest of the team and our party guests have for you at the Seize the Birthday challenge blog and don’t forget to join the party yourself!

Thank you so much for stopping by!

#1124 – CAS is Difficult!

PE: Top 3 at Neglected Stuff challenge!

Hello and welcome! It’s time for yet another challenge at Seize the Birthday and this time, our leader, Nancy, is the leading lady, and she chose the topping ‘Clean and Simple with a Stencil‘. Of course, our ‘Anything Goes‘ topping always applies, so if the topping is not to your liking, you can just join with a Birthday project.

And here’s what I made –

I started with the stencilling. I picked a linen textured white cardstock, and used the Stamplotations Art Flowers 1 stencil , masking it with sticky notes to blend in the colors. Once done, I used Simon Says Stamp Stitching Panel on the panel. Yeah, I had a hard time getting rid of all the teeny tiny die cut pieces (the best tip I learnt from Jennifer McGuire to remove such small things was to run a tooth pick or something similar over the die cutting, like drawing a line. While it does make it tons easier, it is still time consuming to run it over a large surface), so I left a few behind here and there.. makes it a little artistic too! 😉

For the card base, I had initially chosen a purple cardstock, but later switched to white, since it was looking much better. I adhered my stencilled panel directly on it, and cut out a strip of a matching purple cardstock and adhered it right next to it. Once the whole thing dried, I trimmed off the overhanging edges.

For the sentiment, I used Simon Says Stamp Butterfly Blossoms, stamping it over a white cardstock die cut using Sizzix Phrases die. I then adhered this over my card.

Arrgh.. it was so difficult to stop myself from adding a sequin or something to embellish my card!! I soooo wanted to add something. This card is really proof of my willpower – I can’t go any more CAS than this! My apologies to Nancy!! 😀

But I can still join a few challenges –

The Neglected Stuff challenge September: Anything Goes – the stencil I used, Stamplotations Art Flowers 1 stencil, I’ve had it in my stash for so long – probably more than 3-4 years – and never used it!!

Die cut Divas September challenge: Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge: Anything Goes

Just us Girls challenge #794: Stencil week

Stencil Fun challenge September: Anything Goes with optional Nature

Anyway, you can loads of better inspiration from the rest of our DT and our guests at the Seize the Birthday blog! Of course, some of you are experts at CAS, and the ones who are not, just like me, can try their hand at this challenge – so join the party!

Thank you so much for stopping by!