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Cool Cat for Caro

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My sister’s birthday is today and the card arrived in time so that she could take it on her business trip. So Happy Birthday Caro, I hope you like the card. After the Painted Petals refused to become her birthday card, I decided to use DSP. Caro loves DSP and she especially loves the retired Eastern Elegance pack. I picked up a pack from the clearance rack recently. After my success with DSP and twine for David’s card (which will be revealed at the end of the month), I decided to try the same kind of thing for Caro’s.

Stampin' Up! Cool Cats

I started by colouring in the stack of presents from the Stampin’ Up! Cool Cat set (retired) using my stampin’ write markers in lost lagoon, soft sky and smoky slate. I then embossed the top part of the image in smoky slate and cut out the top present and popped it up carefully on little pieces of dimensionals. After matting the image in smoky slate, I decided that a larger mat of lost lagoon worked well with the ribbon – the size of the mat mimics the size of the ribbon. I’m not comfortable with big splashy bows especially as this is one of my very first cards with ribbon, so I decided to hide the tails of the ribbon behind the DSP for a more restrained look. I used glue dots to hold the tails in place and then constructed all the layers onto a base of lost lagoon.

Hopefully Caro really likes the card. She will definitely appreciate the fact that I put grey on it; she knows I can’t stand the colour. I should be over it by now, but after wearing grey for school uniforms for about 7 years, I’ve never been able to deal with it. So it was quite a challenge to use it. I think I’ll take Jen’s advice and view it as “matte silver” and actually, I’m really very pleased with this card. Pushing boundaries is definitely a good thing.

Happy Anniversary

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Here’s the card that I sent to my sister and brother in law last month for their anniversary. I didn’t want to post it on the day since they were away on vacation and I wanted them to see it in real life before posting it on my blog – although I’m pretty sure that Ben doesn’t read this! This card is yet another side effect of the card that I made for Dr Demaira – you can see that card here. I’d borrowed a stamp set with a cat on it and this stack of presents were included.  I liked it so much that I stamped a number of stacks for later. Actually I ended up finding the set on ebay so I can do as many stacks as I like now. For my birthday back in August, my sister made me a card using DSP and red and pink together – here it is – in an attempt to show me that you don’t have to follow the rules. I couldn’t think of a way to combine crisp cantaloupe and pistachio pudding (two colours that she really finds underwhelming) so instead decided that I’d have to pop something up on their card. She has only recently stopped stating that she will never use stampin’ dimensionals (she needed them on my birthday card actually!) so I couldn’t resist. cool cats crushed curry anniversary

Base: 8.5″ by 5.5″ Crushed Curry

Top layer: 4″ by 5.25″ Very Vanilla

Stamp sets: Cool Cat (retired), Teeny Tiny Wishes

Inks: Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie, Melon Mambo

As I mentioned, I had already stamped the stack of presents onto the very vanilla by colouring in the presents using Stampin’ write markers in crushed curry, pumpkin pie and melon mambo. I got the colour selection from the colour coach – I don’t think I’d have come up with this combination on my own, but I love it. I then took the sentiment from the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set and randomly stamped in the three colours all over the very vanilla. The card looked a little flat at this point so I grabbed another stamped present (luckily in the same colours) and snipped it out, adhering it over the stack on the card with stampin’ dimensionals. Here’s a side view of the card balanced on my colour coach.

cool cats crushed curry anniversary side view

I like having the stack of presents also stamped on the card itself. I think it gives more depth. I glued the very vanilla to the base and used the backgrounds DSP in Crushed Curry to line the envelope.

Popped up side benefit

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Last week I showed a simple birthday card with a stack of presents stamp and said that I could see other possibilities. Here’s one of those:

cool cats present pear pizzazz pop

This card was inspired by the fact that I’d managed to get inky fingers over the bottom of the white cardstock. I had borrowed this set from my upline to make the Pink Cats card (I saw the dentist for a check on my implant earlier this week and she said that she loved it – I’m so pleased) and really liked the stack of presents. So I stamped a number of them in various colours and also grabbed my Stampin’ Write markers and coloured the presents in mixed colours. This card started with the image coloured in pear pizzazz, rich razzleberry and tempting turquoise and stamped on whisper white card stock. I’m not sure when the inky fingerprints were introduced!

I roughly trimmed down the whisper white and grabbed cardstock in the three colours. It occurred to me to try an oval window over the presents after having a scrap with an oval cutout accidentally sitting on top of the pile of cardstock stamped with these presents. I felt that the tempting turquoise was just too loud so settled on pear pizzazz on top of the rich razzleberry base. I used edge pieces from the stampin’ dimensionals to “pop up” the pear pizzazz piece but before adhering that, I used my fake white embossing powder (my real Stampin’ Up! white embossing powder is due to be delivered on Tuesday) for the sentiment. I ran the envelope liner framelits and the rich razzleberry backgrounds dsp through the big shot and attached the liner to the envelope using my snail adhesive. I just put the snail around  the top and side edges above the crease which seems to work well. It’s best to pre-score the liner.

Details:

Base: 8.5″ by 5.5″ rich razzleberry card stock

Mat: 4: by 5.25″ pear pizzazz

Stamp set: Cool cat (retired), Four You

Ink: Versamark

Other: pear pizzazz, rich razzleberry and tempting turquoise stampin’ write markers.

Side Benefit

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A side benefit of making the thank you card for Dr Demaira was that there was a stamp of a stack of presents in the same set that I borrowed from my upline. I stamped a few of them in rose red and real red and pacific point and then realised that they’d look really great if I coloured the three presents in different colours. So I got out my stampin’ write markers and tried it out. I really like how it worked – I got suggestions from the Colour Coach which worked well. I used pacific point, melon mambo and pumpkin pie.

cool cat gifts melon mambo

Base: 8.5″ by 5.5″ melon mambo

Top layer: 4″ by 5.25″ very vanilla

Stamp sets: Cool cats( retired), Sassy salutations

Inks: pacific point, melon mambo, pumpkin pie

As I said, I simply coloured in each present using a different stampin’ write marker; then I moistened the ink by breathing on it hard (just channel the end of a run) and stamped onto the very vanilla. I would never have partnered these colours but I trusted the colour coach and loved the result. I definitely recommend that tool. The backgrounds dsp in melon mambo to line the envelope finished off the card.

I had previously done another card where the mat and colour of the sentiment was the same as the biggest present and I think it looks almost monochromatic. Somehow all the Tempting Turquoise pretty much overshadows the Rich Razzleberry and Pear Pizzazz. It’s a completely different look and another example of how different colours can totally change the card.

cool cat gifts tempting turquoise

I stamped and coloured a number of pieces of cards in this stamp for later use so stay tuned for more examples.

More Cat Congratulations

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Donna is another of my colleagues who was promoted this year. I don’t believe that she reads my blog, but if so – sorry, that you’re seeing your card before you receive it and congratulations! Donna is a cat person so whilst trying to create the card for Dr Demaira, I somehow easily came up with this one which is a surprise since the first one was so difficult.

cool cat congrats blackberry bliss

Base: 8.5″ by 5.5″ blackberry bliss

Stamp sets: Cool Cats (retired), Bravo

Ink: Versamark

Other: silver foil paper, silver embossing powder

This was a fairly simple card. I embossed the cat in silver on blackberry bliss and then cut it out with oval #3 (counting from the smallest die) and then created a frame from silver foil by using ovals #3 and #4. A bit more silver embossing for the Congratulations from the Bravo stamp set and the card was pretty much done. I used the Park lane DSP to line the envelope. I’m really pleased with how this came out and I hope Donna likes it.