We’re continuing to get some sneak peeks at some of my favorite products from the upcoming Stampin’ Up! January Mini and Sale-a-Bration catalogs. And as soon as I saw this large-scaled cat stamp, I just had to have it. I often mentioned my “office assistants” in my social media posts. We’re a family of cat people and currently have 4 fur babies in the house and feed a colony of feral kitties outside. Each and every one of them is spoiled in their own way, even the ferals. While not everyone is a fan of cats, we love them and enjoy getting to see their individual personalities really shine.
So on to today’s project, today we’re pairing two new lovely papers — Beautiful Bokeh and Timeless Plaid — with the cute new background stamp called Meow Mates. One thing I took for granted was being able to get the coat pattern in my mind’s eye translate to paper. Next time, I’m going to try using my watercolor pencils instead of Stampin’ Blends —namely because I’m simply better with the subtleties and blending with the watercolor pencils than I am with blends. And that just comes down to practice!
We get started with a base of Petal Pink cardstock. A sheet of Beautiful Bokeh paper serves as our backdrop for the larger center focal panel. The focal panel background is a sheet of Timeless Plaid cut with the Perennial Postage dies. I stamped the Meow Mates image in Early Espresso on white cardstock and then selected the portion I wanted to highlight and cut using the Spotlight on Nature dies. I colored in the cats with Stampin’ Blends. I used a twist of gold thread behind the image panel to draw the eye in. The sentiment from Beautiful Butterflies is stamped in Early Espresso on white cardstock and then cut with the Mixed Labels die and adhered it over a strip of Petal Pink striped ribbon. The focal section is all adhered using dimensionals to bring it forward (literally). Low profile dots across the card front bring our color palette together and add some pops of interest to draw the eye across the design.
I’m looking forward to playing around more with the coloring and shading of the Meow Mates stamp. And we’ll see if we can find a version that looks a bit more realistic than cartoon-y. I still have several more favorites to show this week, so I hope you’ll stop back in.
Products used in today’s card:
Petal Pink, Basic White cardstock
Timeless Plaid (coming soon), Beautiful Bokeh (coming soon) DSP
Meow Mates (coming soon), Beautiful Butterflies (coming soon) stamps
Perennial Postage, Spotlight on Nature, Mixed Labels (coming soon) dies
Stampin’ Blends
Petal Pink striped ribbon, gold thread
Low profile dots (coming soon)
Dimensionals
Adhesives
Song Sparrow Papercrafts 