Hi Lovelies!
Bringing you Project #4 for the Cat Lovers Hop. (Links to the first two are at the bottom of the page)
I hate to be the bearer of sad tidings, but as crafting cat lovers, I'm sure we've heard about Newton. If not here's their
IG announcement.
This one was hard to make - not gonna lie. In many respects harder than scrapbooking what 3 years post-Fossy look like. Is it the suddenness? Definitely in part.
At least for those of us who don't know Newton personally? Maybe. Fossy battled renal failure for years. We had him on blood pressure meds and a special diet which slowed down the progression, but especially towards the end and his increasingly worsening bloodwork, it wasn't unexpected.
Is is Newton's rather iconic status as a cat who started up his own stamp company? This is actually somewhat of a consolation since he will forever live on in the images and the projects we make with them.
Is it because it was so soon after poor Hobbes passed away? For me that was part of it.
I decided to keep it simple. I wasn't sure how hard it would be to get through it, but I wanted to do a bit of a tribute to Newton.
I'm not entirely displeased with the ginger colouring, although Newton appears a bit lighter. Yarn ball is so-so.
I used a circle stencil as a nod to the yarn ball and three colours of Colour Blast Paste. I'm never sure how stuff will adhere to mixed media, so it was Permanent Glue Dots to the back of the sentiment block and on the unsticky side of fun foam for the win!
I stamped (repeatedly) with white pigment ink rather than embossed the sentiment since I was spent and pulling out all my heat embossing stuff was more than I could do at that point.
Sending Hugs Card
That's all for now! I'll be honest in that I'm not sure whether I'll have time for another project since i have a couple of pressing assignments to complete this week! Thanks for all your comments I always read them all and I'm working through commenting on them.
OK now to the giveaway part:
Giveaway CLOSED!
📌 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 to do this since they change 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! In the even the items I purchased are on back order, I'll purchase something similar in their place and update the list below. Thanks for understanding!
The prizes you get to pick from are:
This hysterical Art Impressions stamp set called "Catastrophy". Perfect for the Spoonie stamper (or if you know one!)
There is a Dyan Reaveley stencil called "It's Raining Cats" (this one is mine, but yours will be brand new, obvs! 😉)
An American Crafts "Coloring Notebook"
Lastly,
the bonus prize will be an electronic gift card to the online crafty
store of your choice to the value of $20 AUD (approx $13 USD, £10 GBP,
€12 Eur etc. May vary depending on exchange rate)
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 Monday 28 Oct (a whole week from today). Please visit THIS SITE to calculate in your own timezone
📌 The winner will be drawn on Weds 30 Oct so PLEASE CHECK BACK HERE
❗If the winner and I can't make contact by Weds 6 Nov, 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)
🐈 Follow me on Facebook - 2 entries
🐈 Follow me on Instagram - 1 entry
🐈 Comment (once per day per person) on a post between now and the close of the giveaway - 1 entry per post
I don't yet know how many makes I'll have done between now and then, but it will be at least three. The more love from you guys the better the chances of me getting crafty which gives you more chances to enter.
* ⬅⬅⬅ Acronyms and strange terms in left sidebar!
Love and cuddle your kitty!
It's time for Challenge #205 over at The Paper Girls. The theme is "Summer Dreams" so I thought my July "For the Love of Homemade Kits" kit would be perfect since it definitely had a summery vibe to it. 
