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!
Without the shelf or window sill it wouldnh’t(Refer to the stamp and die sets as needed.)
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.
- 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
No comments:
Post a Comment