Cat Lovers Hop Project #5 Watercolour Snarky Cat Card set

Hello Lovelies! 

 

Due to the limit of 5 projects per person on the main hop link up, many of mine will only be shared here and on my socials, so please keep checking back to get as many chances for the giveaway as possible!  I will also keep making AFTER the official Hop finishes, so please keep on checking back!

See, I promised you a card project before the end of the official hop (I'm cutting it really fine, though!) It's not the end for me!  I still have things I want to make which will could towards entries for the giveaway!

I've had the idea for a set of snarky cat cards like these for a while.  I used the Tim Holtz Snarky Cat stamp set, but I wanted to give some exercise to all my Dyan Reaveley snarky phrase sets too. 

 

These aren't for everyone,  but two of my closest friends are my crafty, snarky, coffee drinking besties and I know they'd have a laugh and not take it personally!

The Distress Ink watercolour is where is all fell down a bit.  The first one (red and orange) was more or less what I had in mind, except then they started to turn all monochromatic!  I'll be honest that I was still feeling pretty terrible so it wasn't going to be my best work no matter how you look at it. 

 

Once the watercolour was dry, I stamped the cats and sentiments, added a piece of fun foam a bit smaller than the card front then added the sequins.  Glue Dots are ideal for helping even out warped paper and giving extra hold where it might pull away from the card base.  

 
 

And sequins with wet glue and violently shaking hands as mine were today is a recipe for disaster!  Thanks, Columbus Trading!

 

 

I'm also not digging the sequins on some of them.  The placement of the stamp and sentiment on some doesn't help either, but overall I'm pleased given the circumstances! 

 

  

The hand shakes also explain the terrible photography! Soz!  

 

 

🎨 As I mentioned before, I'm going to keep making past the official end of the Hop on 31st (US Time) so keep coming back for more posts to comment on and get more entries!  There may be more Kitty fashions in the coming days 😜 and hopefully some card projects starting later today/tonight!

Snarky Cat Card Set

 Giveaway Prizes

🐱 Update! Since my first project (the cat masks) caused so much excitement, the three winners of the physical prizes can pick a cat fabric and I will make a mask to go with their prize (if they would like one).

Please understand that I can't do it for the electronic gift card prize, since it would mean shipping costs and the value of the gift card takes into account that I don't have to spend money on shipping.  Thanks so much!

MFT "Purr-Fect Friends" Stamp Set

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jane Davenport "Purr-fect Cat" Stamp Set

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cat Embellie pack 

with stickers, clips and half of the Echo Park "I Love My Cat" paper pad 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Max's Choice" Bonus Prize

A gift card to the crafty store of your choice to the value of $20USD (or equivalent in your currency) to the closest denomination of card available.

Giveaway Rules

📌 I have three items (and a bonus fourth prize) to give away (pictured below) and I'll pull three names for the first three prizes.

📌For the  fourth "bonus" prize: it will go to someone who has entered the main blog hop (please let me know your project numbers if you would like to be considered.  You can wait til the blog hop is over (but before the close of the giveaway) to do this since the order changes sometimes.)

📌 The first name drawn gets first choice, second name gets second choice and so on.  Bonus prize will be TallCraftyDude's favourite project!

📌 This Giveaway is NOT SPONSORED.  I purchased the prizes especially for this giveaway.  This year I picked stuff other than just stamp sets to mix it up a bit

 

What Do You Have to Do?

You will receive an entry (or entries) for each of the following.  You absolutely don't have to do everything - just how ever many you like.

If you have previously followed my socials then these are already counted for you!  (unfollowers will not be counted)
📌 The giveaway will remain open until 11:59PM AEDT on Friday 6 November.   Please visit THIS SITE to calculate in your own timezone
📌 The winner will be drawn on Monday 9 November so PLEASE CHECK BACK HERE
❗If the winner and I can't make contact by Monday 16 November, I will have to draw a new winner since I need to get these prizes out all together.
❗Please try to email me at alex@pinkcraftymama.com This really is the easiest way for me to get in touch with you since not all blogger profiles have an email attached and if you JUST leave comments, I have no other place to search for you.

So...what do you have to do to get entries?

🐈 Follow this blog - 3 entries (in the left sidebar)

🐈 Subscribe to my YouTube Channel - 3 entries

🐈 Follow me on Facebook - 2 entries

🐈 Follow me on Instagram - 1 entry

🐈 Comment (once per day per person) on a project post between now and the close of the giveaway - 1 entry per post.  Index page with links to all my projects. 

Please don't hesitate to  email me with any questions at alex@pinkcraftymama.com

If you're entering the giveaway, comment below and tell me...is your car a fussy eater?  (or a cat you know if you don't have one) Or anything else if this doesn't grab you.

 

* ⬅⬅⬅ Acronyms and strange terms in left sidebar!  

 

Love and stay safe,

 

Card 1 for Cat Lovers Hop 2018

Ooooh boy this one really crept up on me!

The annual Cat Lovers Hop hosted by Janis of Her Peaceful Garden is always a favourite of mine.  It runs for a week around about the time of National Cat Day on 29 October.

Click on the cat graphic below to visit the main blog hop page

 

I would have liked to do a layout (any cat themed craft is OK), but time is such that it's a card once again!

What I'd like to do (considering there are only 3 days or so left in the blog hop) is to post a card each day for the remaining days, but for now, here's today's card!

This card is all about friendship.  It's inspired by my lovely friend Joy who gave me that cat stamp set by Dyan Reaveley as a gift.  💜💜💜

I finally got some Distress Oxide ink pads (Set 2 2018 I believe) after patiently waiting and hoping they would be available in the mini cubes.  After some digging on the interwebs, I read that it wasn't going to happen since the special properties of the oxide inks were not compatible in the small size.  😠

I have no idea where I'm going to find space too keep a full set of the big ones (because full set syndrome and all that!)

With this background I just blended the inks as they were in a rainbow fashion.  Fortunately there was enough of a variety of colours in that particular set of 12 colours.  I just dripped some water on the background and that's it.  I think it's the equivalent of dipping my toe in right?

The sentiment is from the Cat-Itude stamp set by MFT and the paw prints from an older one by Stampendous (possibly?).

Some textural bits to finish.  Simple, but gets the point across!

Love and catty creativity!

Victoria Marie Weekend Challenge: "Old + New"

Victoria Marie is back to having weekend challenges in her Facebook group.  The one running from Friday 26/1 to Monday 29/1 was about Old and New.  The instructions were (in a nutshell):

Title: Old + New
Due: Monday, January 29th by 11:59 pm (CST)
The Challenge: Create a scrapbook page (any size or style) using items from your stash and new products that you recently purchased.
1) You must use at least 3 items from your stash....older elements that you haven’t used in a while. The older, the better!
2) You must use at least 2 new items that have been recently purchased.

(scroll down for full layout)

I manage to finish this one after not crafting at all in December or January!  As is always the case with me and often with others too, it's hard to get back into the groove after a little (or a lot) of tim away,

I also hadn't purchased anything super recently - at least not for scrapbooking.  Cardmaking stamps maybe.  So much so that the "new" collections I still hadn't got around to buying are no longer new since Creativation revealed the new NEW ones these last few weeks. 😮😮😮

Still...I settled for what was newEST and figured anything manufactured in the 12 months since Creativation 2017 was acceptable as NEW.

Old I'm good with!   Have plenty of that on hand and usually the older means the moe precious since many manufacturers and designers are no longer. 😢


I've listed as many supplies as I can easily identify.  There are some odd bits of Thickers which I don't have in original packaging so can't tell you where or when.  At a guess the blue ampersand is Amy Tangerine and the non glittery pink asterisk could be too for that matter,  I didn't count my mixed media items either.

  

New

*Shimelle "Glitter Girl" paper 2017
*Embellishments from "Glitter Girl" - stars from word Thickers, glitter enamel dots, stickers, shaker sticker
*Shimelle "Glitter Girl" washi 2017
*PinkFresh Studio word stickers 2017

In Between

*Amy Tangerine "Better Together" paper 2016
*Shimelle "Starshine" 2016
*Simple Stories "Reset Girl" roller stamp 2016
*Amy Tangerine roller stamps ("Better Together" 2016 and "Finders Keepers" 2015)
*Shimelle Roller Stamp "True Stories" 2015
*Dyan Reaveley "Say it How is is" Stamp set 2013 

 

Old:

*Love, Elsie "Roxie" paper 2006
*Love, Elsie "Roxie" enamel shapes 2006
*Love, Elsie "Zoe" enamel shapes 2007
*Dear Lizzy "Neapolitan"Roller stamp 2011
*American Crafts Thickers "Rainboots" font in Raspberry Pre-2011
*Hambly Screen Prints Washi 2011



So...I started with a B-side from Any Tan's "Better Together" line.  This is the third of my Dyan Reaveley layouts.  I think I haven't actually told you about my class with her last August!  I must do that!

The layout itself was a hybrid scraplift of one by Shimelle during a recent "Friday Live" on Facebook video and one I had saved from somewhere onto my camera roll.

Problem is that it had no watermark or signature so I thought I wouldn't be able to credit the maker.

Ha!  I'm not giving up that easily!  It had a lot of features that I see in Missy Whidden's work so I started by searching Pinterest for her layouts and if this one popped up I would be on my way to determining it's origin.

It did indeed and led me to a post on the My Mind's Eye blog where the layout was in all it's glory with confirmation that it was indeed made by Missy and remarkably similar to Shimelle's except it had much more mixed media.

I don't usually use so much mixed media, but making an effort to on layouts pertaining to my classes with Dyan since she is an art journaller.  I'm trying to mix it up with what I normally do so I'm trying something new, but isn't a gross departure from everything I like that makes me me.

The title used cut-apart letters from Glitter Girl (our initials) and was a nod to the photo being an actual selfie.  I used my Instax Mini 9 which has a selfie mirror on the front.  I love it, but still working out its' quirks.  It tends to require a higher brightness than specified by the camera or else they come out kinda like the old Polaroid.  It's not totally bad since it does give it a vintage look, but when you want colour...


...and I loathe my pred face.  It takes so much for me to post photos of myself online.  I'm trying, but it's hard when the only medicines that help keep Arthur** at bay cause so much collateral damage. 😢

Here is the full layout:

A&D Selfie 

** Acronyms in left sidebar <--



Love and messy mixed media missions!