Monday, December 30, 2019

You Got This - Cat Cards by Judi Kauffman for The Queen’s Ink

I thought it would be fun to play with the dies from Tim Holtz’s Crazy Cats set, but not the matching stamps. The results - a trio of super fast and easy cards! I used one of my favorite RubberMoon stamps (You Got This.), some cat’s eye stickers, and for one of the cards a couple of pieces of embossed Shimmer Sheetz. DONE! (If you don’t have cat’s eye stickers, you can easily draw the eyes...)

A little secret: The center cat on each card is sitting on a strip of cardstock or in a window opening for a reason. That particular stamp has very long legs and front paws that end just below the body, therefore the die has a lumpy shape in that particular spot and without the stamped image (when it’s just a silhouette shape) the little lumps seem to be genitals for a male cat - not what I wanted, so I performed a little ‘surgery’ and posed the cat accordingly!
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MORE OPTIONS
For even speedier results use only one cat per card.
Start with a 4” high x 9” wide top-fold card base instead of A2 so you can line the cats up in a row.
Die cut the cats from patterned paper rather than solid colors.

SUPPLIES
  • Crazy Cats die set (Tim Holtz)
  • You Got This rubber stamp (RubberMoon)
  • Cardstock in assorted colors and textures
  • Dye inks in brown and black
  • Craft sponge (for smudged-on inking)
  • Double-sided adhesive tape
  • Foam tape
  • Optional - 
  • 5mm Cat’s Eye stickers in yellow (Stanislaus Imports, lasioux.com)
  • Shimmer Sheetz and embossing folders

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