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Monday, June 30, 2025

Trellis Kitties

 



This card which makes me think of cats sitting on a trellis looking out on a garden using this sketch from the Try a Sketch on Tuesday challenge.


I started with watercolor paper, and began spraying it with Distress sprays and water, drying, spattering drops of water, drying, sometimes spraying more and repeating until I liked what I saw and then let it dry completely.  I inked an assortment of stamps without attaching them to blocks, stamped off, and then touched just parts to the paper to get partial images to add texture.  I then lightly brushed ink through random parts of the Feather Leaves stencil from Lavinia Stamps.  Background pretty much done.

Next I cut twelve frames using the Essential Squares dies set from Ellen Hutson and stacked them in threes to make four squares.  I then cut three each of the cats using my favorite cat die from Impression Obsession and stacked them.  After I glued three squares and kitties on the background, I cut up the last square to make the "post."  I decided the background needed some brightening, so I covered up the cats and whacked a Posca paint pen with a ruler to make the splatters.  I ran a black Versafine ink pad along the edge of the panel to give it definition.  After attaching it to a white card base, I attached a cut up sentiment from Taylored Expressions.

I am also entering this card in the Addicted to Stamps and More challenge to use die cuts and/or stencils and the Cut It Up challenge to use die cuts on a card with a Critter.

Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time, Hansi







1 comment:

  1. The background you created is amazing. The colors, the stamped and stencilled areas really make the background magical. Thanks for joining us at Addicted to Stamps and More!

    sue n.

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