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Posted on January 18, 2025 9:53 PM by Julie Comment

Today I have another birthday themed card. This time it features a trio of celebrating little kitties. Instead of die cutting them, I put them inside a frame and just trimmed the little outsides of the balloons to go on top of the frame. There are a lot of cute images to chose from in this set. Perfect for a cat lover as well as for kids’ birthdays.

It’s my turn to host the Featured Stamper Challenge FS937, so a big congrats to Sue! She has such a fun gallery & I chose THIS card to case. I made a lot of changes..mine is horizontal, hers is vertical. I used different paper, images & dies. I really liked her layout but I couldn’t make it work due to the size of the image & frames.

After coloring the image, I elected not to die cut it but rather but a frame around it. Actually a double inside/outside scallop frame. It’s popped up a bit on top of the cats & the cat panel is elevated a bit from the plaid heart paper. I cut just around the outside edge of each balloon to lift it above the frame. A pretty easy card to make!

Here are the Copics I used:

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Brass & Bliss : Birthday Cats set

Paper: Staples 110# white, mauve, Brass & Bliss: Heart Strings paper pad

Ink: Memento tuxedo black

Accessories: Brass & Bliss: Birthday Cat set, , Inside Scallop Frame, Outside Scallop Frame dies, Copic Markers, Misti

Birthday Cats set 37005	Birthday Cats dies 37005D	Heart Strings paper 2201	Inside Scallop Frame Rectangle die 5500-01D	Outside Scallop Frame Rectangle die 5500-02D
Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	Memento Inks	Copic Sketch Markers	MISTI

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Cool Cats

Posted on January 10, 2025 9:56 PM by Julie Comment

Today I have a die cut, paper pieced, mid-century mod birthday card. The two cool cats were put together with an assortment of dies and the background is a partial sunrays stained glass die with only some of the pieces colored in. It has a real 50’s-60’s vibe to it.

For the Inspiration Challenge IC997, we are visiting a site called Kate McEnroe & her Pinterest Board. I was inspired by THIS picture. I really love the atomic cat look & my only problem was figuring out a way to create this pair of cool cats. I’ll admit, I had to look through a lot of dies to come up with some to piece together.

To make the cat bodies, I used a large & a small vase, since the shape was so similar. The tails were the curliques from the Get Well Soon die. The head on the small cat is actually a letter D from the Vintage Alpha set turned sideways w/ white in the center. For the large cat head, I just cut a pointy oval shape then added the punch outs from the Hugs die. A black marker was used to add the vertical pupils. The ears on the large cat are just triangular pieces. The Sunrays background was cut out of ivory & I used ink to color in some of the pieces. A pointy flower die was used for the sun shape. The black frame was made w/ 2 arched dies. After attaching it on top of the background I used the larger one to cut it the same size as the frame.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies: (click the names below the pictures to take you to the products)

Stamps: Brass & Bliss: I Thought You Knew set

Paper: Staples 110# white, ivory, black

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Brass & Bliss: Color Fuse inks set #2, set #4, set #9, set #11

Accessories: Brass & Bliss/Rubbernecker Stamps: Sunrays Stained Glass, I Thought You Knew set, Stacked Arches, Vintage Alphabet, Hugs w/ Shadow, Get Well Soon, Mixable Flower stack, Vases & Shelves dies, Detail Blending Brushes, Misti

Sunrays-Stained Glass die 5747-03D	I Thought You Knew set 36062	I Thought You Knew dies 36062D	Stacked Arches 5715D	Detail Blending Brushes
Color Fuse Ink set #2	Color Fuse Ink set #4	Color Fuse Ink set #9	Color Fuse Ink set #11	Get Well Soon die 5749-05D
Hugs die 5205-01D	Mixable Flower Stack die 5107D	Vases & Shelves die 5309-05D	Vintage Alphabet die 5742D

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Sunshine is Fine

Posted on June 1, 2024 9:51 PM by Julie Comment

This cool cat has the perfect spot! Float around for a while, then lay out on a beach towel. Perfect way to spend a summer day and who wouldn’t trade places with him? He’d got it made in the shade, unless he’s walking on sunshine.

A big congrats to Melissa, this week’s Featured Stamper (FS904)! She has a super gallery & I chose THIS card to case. I kept the filmstrip idea but used different images, dies, colors, changed it from Christmas to summer & made mine a mini slimline,

After coloring the cool kitties, I die cut them & a plain white panel for the center of the filmstrip. The filmstrip itself was cut out of black. There are 4 opening in the die cut as is, but I cut it apart & spliced it back together with only 3. This is easier to do on dark card stock because it doesn’t show on the black. The kitties were added behind the filmstrip & trimmed so they didn’t go out into the edges. Then I backed the center section w/ another piece of white. The paper behind the white panel was also spliced since it’s shorter than the mini slimline layer. Again, it was easy to do down at the very dark blue end. When I tilted the filmstrip it looked a little bare in the upper left corner so I added a die cut sun before attaching the filmstrip. Sorta reinforces the “sunshine” theme as well.

The filmstrip was only slightly elevated. Here are the Copics I used:

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Brass & Bliss: Cats at the Beach set

Paper: Staples 110# white, sm scraps of yellow, black, Brass & Bliss: Tropical Dreams paper pad

Ink: Memento tuxedo black

Accessories: Brass & Bliss/Rubbernecker Stamps:, Cats at the Beach set, Mini Slimline w/ Stitch, Sun/Moon, Slimline Filmstrip dies, MISTI, Copic markers

Cats at the Beach 36041	Cats at the Beach dies 36041D	Slimline Nested Stitch dies 5326D	Tropical Dreams paper 2207	Sun Moon die 5147-07D
Sun Moon die 5147-07D	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Scotch ATG	MISTI	Copic Sketch Markers
Memento Inks	AC color card stock