Art-Without-Anxiety: Trick or Treat Party Cat

Monday, October 7, 2013

Trick or Treat Party Cat

As some of you know, I absolutely LOVE cats. I love them so much I collect cat stamps (and some people would say I actually collect cats; however, with only four I am a long way from being a cat lady & yes, the thought has crossed my mind) and I made this Halloween card with one of my favorite cat stamps from Lost Coast Designs – he is wearing a party hat on the actual stamp but I made him a bit more seasonal by giving him a cute little witch hat. What I did was stamp my image (with Ranger’s Archival ink in Jet Black) on a panel of white card stock & then stamped a partial image of just his head. I colored the hat in with my black Sharpie and cut it out. Then I just added a little strip of black to make the rim of the hat and put a little punched out orange star where the buckle typically is. Then I got to use my new stamp set from Tim Holtz & Stampers Anonymous called Simple Sayings (CMS155) – I tried several ways to get the outline stamp and the word stamp to align up and found that stamping the outline and then positioning the phrase inside it was the easiest. I stamped both stamps on a piece of card stock that had actually been overspray from another project I did (the overspray is made up of Fireworks! spray). Then I just layered the cat and the saying on a black card stock base – easy as pie! (Yum, pie sounds really good right now!) Hope you enjoy my art & please do follow my blog so you will never miss another amazing post - xo