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

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
Country View Challenge - Something Spooky

Oozak - Anything Goes 

Crazy 4 Challenges - Halloween 
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge -  Cats/Dogs/Pets/Animals
Stamping Sensations - All Creatures Big & Small

Crafty Calendar Stamping - Halloween
Totally Gorjuss - Anything Goes with Stars

Cat in a Pumpkin

Both the sentiment &  the cat rubber stamps are from an old Stampin’ Up! stamp set called “A Haunting we will Go” (which I bought, and keep, due to the cute kitty in the pumpkin).  After stamping the cat & the “Happy Halloween” on scrap white cardstock, using Ranger Archival Ink in Jet Black,  I colored the cat in with my set of old Stampin’ Up! watercolor pencils (remember watercolor pencils? It’s what we used before alcohol ink markers became the rage.  Comparing watercolor pencils to alcohol ink markers is sort of like comparing the old corded, rotary phone in the kitchen compared to the sleek cellular phone that you can use to do almost anything – the old phone still works, but the new phone is so much more fun!) I used a blender pen to blend the pencils a bit.  I used a base made of My Mind’s Eye paper from the “Spooked set”; the actual paper name is “Spooked Star Dots” (unfortunately the paper pack has been discontinued but you can find it online).  I chose this paper due to the fact I think it matches the purple band around the cat’s hat fairly well – I edged the decorative paper with a black Sharpie, cut out a panel of black cardstock & glued the kitty & the sentiment both on the black rectangle & then glued it to the base.  Super easy & lots of fun! I forgot how much fun coloring is – think I need to break out my coloring books and my crayons ~ have a GREAT day & thanks for reading XO

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - We're going Dotty

Creative Inspiration Paints - Inspired by Halloween 

Loves Rubber Stamping - Anything Goes

Card Makin Mamas - Halloween  

Animal Friends Challenge - Fall or Halloween

Craft Blogging Central - Halloween
 Try it on Tuesday - Going Dotty