Rainbow Bridge

 Not a happy occasion to have to make Rainbow Bridge cards but it gives some comfort to the recipients. These cards were made for the passing of my grandson's ginger kitty named Pancakes.

I used cat in an oval  on a blended sky background added it to an embossed layer, it fit inside perfectly. 

This one was for the family.

This card was made for my great granddaughter as she took Pancakes passing especially hard.

The heart shaped die cut was layered on some watercoloured paper, The rainbow  colours were blended on the base to match the paw prints die cut.

Both cards have the same sentiment.

I want to add this to:

Show us your pussycats blog ~~ anything goes

Thanks for stopping by today and have a crafty day.

 

Top 'O The Mornin' to You.............

An early Happy St. Patrick's day to everyone!!! Show us Your Pussycats Challenge has an optional theme of St. Patrick's Day and since I have a "Fluffles" St. Patrick's Day stamp I just had to join in the fun!!  Since I needed more inspiration than a stamp I zoned in on the current sketch challenge from Mojo Monday and it was perfect, it was a win/win.

I am sure keeping this sketch in a folder to use again, it's perfect for these Fluffles stamps sadly they are not available from Stampendous anymore. The image was coloured with copics and winked with stella. The sentiment was computer generated, the striped paper was a scrap from my stash the other two papers were printed from google. 

Close up of the super cute "fluffles"

Since I don't send many St Patrick's day cards I didn't have a sentiment but this one from Printworks is perfect for a lot of occasions. 

Entering the following challenges:

Show Us Your Pussycats Challenge ~~ #40 St. Cat-ricks Day

Mojo Monday ~~ Sketch #511

Thanks for visiting today and have a great weekend!!!

It's Raining Cats and Dogs at Shopping Our Stash!!!

Challenge #379 at Shopping Our Stash is Raining Cats and Dogs translation ~~ we want to see Cats, Dogs or Rain would be cool to use all three, but I didn't as I was short on time this week. I did make two cards. Here is my first card using a Katzelkraft Cat.

This is as clean and simple as you will get from me. The music background stamp is from Stampin'up the Happy Birthday is unmarked and the cat singing is from Katzelkraft. I added paper glaze to the music noted.

I used (for the first time) an Elizabeth Craft Designs paw print die and one of the first sentiment stamps I bought many many moons ago (over 10) 

On to my Second Card

It's a Katzelkraft dog,  images sent as a RAK from a friend. I've had the patterned paper for many months and although it's opened I think it might be the first time cutting into it.  I thought the cute "hound" needed a "houndstooth" background. There is paperglaze on the doggie's nose and on the bone which is popped up. 

Nothing like gussying up the inside, I really wanted to use this die and cut it to use on the front and I really liked the clean look of the front without it so decided to put in inside. Another first cut for the die with the exceptions of cutting a few bones for a different challenge. The sentiment is a cling mount one from Stampendous.

I'm entering this in:

Show us your Pussycats Challenge ~~ furrything goes.

Thanks for checking in today and head over to the Main Blog and see what the rest of the design team have made for the challenge (I wonder if anyone did a trifecta?)

Jingle All The Way!!!

Jingle Belles Rock the Christmas Bells!!! I'm so happy to be able to create a second card for the challenge. I decided the Fluffles stamped image really needed to be "square". Fluffles is one of the older stamps I have and sadly they are discontinued they were from Stampendous.

This is as CAS as you get from me!!! I now see how much "white" space there is in the background even though it's striped. 

Close up of my trio of bell ringers.

Finished inside with some left over patterned paper and a Impression Obsession sentiment.

I'm entering this in:

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Christmas Bells those Christmas Belles.

Show us your Pussies ~~ furrything goes.

Thanks for stopping by today and have a crafty day!!!

Last Pink Christmas card for the Jingle Belles!!!

Had a bit of time this afternoon to make one more Pink Christmas card for  Jingle Belles Rock Pink Christmas for the Cure. this is #8 and I am happy with them all. Since the time for the linky to close this will be a short post although there is a lot to post.

Wow a super CAS card from me? I used Tuesday Morning sketches #426 Sketch again, The stamp I used is Acrobat by Penny Black and it's from 2006 but I love it as it can be used for any occasion where you give gifts. 

A close up of the image.

Finished the inside with a Stampabilites sentiment (it's not blurry irl)

I am entering this in:

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Pink Christmas for the Cure

Tuesday Morning sketches ~~ #426

Merry Monday ~~ #262

Her Peaceful Garden ~~ Cat Lovers Blog Hop

Well finally at the end of the list!!! Thanks for checking out my blog today.

Jingle Belles Rock Christmas Bells!!!

The challenge at Jingle Belles Rock is Christmas Bells and I have a few stamps that have bells on them but I decided to use Fluffles hanging in the garland and put bells on it.

I used the Sketch Saturday sketch for my starting point, The jingle bells I've had since last Christmas and finally opened them, I even sewed them on to the cardstock.

Close Up

Finished the inside using a die cut leftover from a previous project.

I would like to enter this in:

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Christmas Bells 

Sketch Saturday #431 

Show Us Your Pussies ~ all cat challenge ~ Furrything goes.

Thanks for visiting and stay tuned I've been very busy this week.

Fluffles has a Birthday Bouquet

I have  quite a few Fluffles stamps, they are retired now but were sold by Stampendous, every once in a while I dig one out to create with.  I found the sketch in a pile of printed sketches  it was from Mojo Monday quite a few weeks ago but it worked great for the the challenge at Catch the Bug blog. Bugaboo is on hiatus until August 20, the challenge is open until then. Since my image was already coloured it worked perfect for Seize the Birthday ~~ Pink & Brown.  Here is what I created.

One of my favourite colour combos is Pink and Brown and the patterned paper worked well as it is several shades of pink and the background is brown. I also distressed the pink and brown layers.

Close up of the image.

Finished inside, I used the paws border punch on a scrap of patterned paper.

I would like to enter this in:

Catch the bug July Recipe: three patterned paper, distressed edges and a Tag (I used two banners)

Seize the Birthday : Anything goes (since I missed Pink and Brown)

Show us your Pussies: Furrythinggoes 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!!

Fluffles and the Present

Well I had a good day today finishing up some images I coloured on the weekend, too hot to sit on the beach, the laptop doesn't like working if I go to a time suck like facebook and golf on tv...what a line-up so I coloured. Of course I'm working on my Holiday Card stash and I was amazed at all the great challenges out there. Today I found Stella Says sketch challenge, I haven't entered Catch the bug challenges for a while, I didn't use a Bugaboo image as I didn't print any off while I was home last week.

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Adorable little fluffles (they are all retired now) from Stampendous, sketch from Stella and patterned paper from American Crafts (Holly Jolly)

Close up of Fluffles.

Finished the inside with a scrap of patterned paper and a sentiment from Stampablities.

Challenges I would like to enter:

Christmas Card Challenge #31

The Paper Players #302 Christmas in July

Stella Says Sketch #411

Show us Your Pussies ~~ an all cat challenge

Nice to see you again so soon...I am on a roll with Holiday cards. 

Think Spring!!!

Well that is what  I must have been thinking when I started creating my card, bright colours, flowers, grasshoppers and butterflies.  I saw the sketch  on Mojo Monday, printed it and then set it aside until I could create which of course was Saturday.  I've been in most of the week with a cold and the weather has been so up and down, it snowed two days earlier in the week then the temp. went up and it rained now back to snowing no wonder people get sick. Well enough whining ~~ here is my card.

I keep looking at my card and think "did I make this" 

I used one of my super cute Fluffles stamps of course Fluffles is no longer being made.

finished inside with some words of wisdom

Challenges I would like to enter this in:

Show us Your Pussies ~~ all cat challenge blog ATG.

Mojo Monday Challenge #430

Thanks for visiting today, see you again real soon!!!