Dancing In The Rain

Hello Crafty Friends!

Today I'm sharing another one-layer card made for the CatLoversHop2018. Here's to Pawsomeness!

Well, this kitty doesn't look terribly happy getting its paws wet. Interestingly there are cats who LOVE water. When Boris got wet, he just did a bit of shaking to get the water off his paws and had a good grooming session.

For my card here, I dug out some KatzelKraft stamps, Les Furieux and Waterwall, and combined them with a sentiment from Inspired by Stamping and the puddle of water from a STAMPlorations set, Lotus Love by Dee's Artsy Impressions.

I am entering my card at:
CatLoversHop2018


Keeping it short and sweet today. Have a lovely weekend!
hugs
Monika

Coffee Loving Cat

Hello Crafty Friends!

Hope your Sunday is going well. Just another quick one today to hopefully make you smile.

This ueber-cool cat is from a set by Katzelkraft, so is the sentiment. Both are stamped with black Versatile ink on Centura Pearl card. The take away coffee cup is stamped with black dye ink. I pulled a little bit of the black along with my water rush to create the spilled coffee. I added a die-cut border, coloured the eyes and finished off with a bright pink sequin.

Here is another look ...

I am entering my card at:
Addicted To CAS challenge #104 - Pets

That's it from me for now. I shall be back in a bit with my DT project for the STAMPlorations Mixed Media Challenge. Their CUTplorations Challenge has just started too. Check out my previous post for more details.

Have a lovely day!
Hugs
Monika xxx

Here are the stamps I used from the STAMPlorations Shop. Entering my personal discount code STAMPGIRLMONIKA at checkout will give you a 20% discount.
Art Edges CUTplorations Die, Gone Postal
 

Sending Love

Hi All,

Today I'm in a catty mood ... hence I finally made a card I've been wanting to make ever since I got some stamps from Katzelkraft ...

Don't forget to laugh ... I thought this sentiment (French Quotes by Katzelkraft) was purrfect for the slightly grumpy looking tom (Les Chats Russes by Katzelkraft) , especially given that there is a rather tasty looking rat sitting right next to him.

I stamped both, cat and rat, with black Memento, coloured them with alcohol markers and applied a coat of Mod Podge. Once dry, I went to town sponging with Crushed Curry ink, adding my stenciling (ARTplorations Stencils: Honeycomb Delight reversed) with Pumpkin Pie, adding some watercolouring to ground and shade using Pumpkin Pie and Early Espresso inks before stamping the raindrops (Mur De Pluie by Katzelkraft) and border (Mixed Media Elements by STAMPlorations) in Crumb Cake and the chevrons (Mixed Media Grunge by STAMPlorations) in Pumpkin Pie. I added and coloured (alcohol markers) my sentiment and layered on a red base card to finish.

I am entering my card at:
Addicted to Stamps and More - Anything Goes
Sisters of Craft - Anything Goes
Stempelsonne - Anything Goes

Next up is a card I made as an entry for the Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop ...

This card is my tribute to re-using. The background is made from a piece of card I used to roller some ink off my brayer when I made my video here, the pink sponged circle started life as a mask when making my cards here and the green sponging was just rubbing off some excess ink I didn't want to go to waste. I enhanced my background by simply stamping Perfume by Kaisecraft (check local retailer) down one side, layered my doily and partially sponged circle on top and added twine and charm. I stamped the teacups (cover gift Quick Cards Made Easy in 2015) on my sponged die-cut pierced rectangle, added my sentiment (Sweet Little Sentiments by Clearly Besotted) and layered on top to finish.

A last look at my finished cards ...

 

That's it from me for now ...
Have a lovely day!

hugs
Monika xxx

Love All Around

Hi All,

I have been playing with my Gelli Plate in preparation for a demonstration at my Craft Club in a couple of weeks time. Today I was trying out mirror stamping ... here are the results ...

The first card was actually stamped using one of the sticky, gel like mobile phone holders for your car dashboard. It is a good way for trying out this technique should you not wish to splash out on a Gelli Plate which certainly gives you a clearer print as you can see in my second card. The left hand seahorse and the right hand cat were stamped/printed in this way. The right hand seahorse is stamped, but I wasn't careful enough hence I disguised my bad stamping with a couple of hearts.

I am entering my 'Purrfect Love' card at:
Addicted to Stamps and More - CAS
Addicted to CAS - red

I am entering my seahorse card at:
Sisters Of Craft - Anything Goes
613 avenue Create - Anything Goes, use something from your stash - black hearts which I punched out a while ago, but never used

There is a short video showing the technique which I recorded in between seeing clients today, it's short and sweet as I didn't have time to finish my card there and then.

... a last look at both card ...

 

That's it from me for today. back soon.
Have a lovely weekend!

hugs
Monika xxx

here is what I used:
from STAMPlorations Sentiment Builders: Love, Pets and Vignette Celebrate Artsy
  

From KatzelKraft Les Chats russes, Seahorse and Mur De Pluie
  

From Stampin'Up! the following inks: Bermuda Bay, Summer Sun, Melon Mambo and Real Red
From Stash: cool grey Promarkers 1,2,3 and black Memento ink; card and black punched hearts punch by Creative Memories, had it for ages)