Every January I promise myself I will play the Christmas challenge blogs and make at least one Christmas card a week to avoid the December card making blitz, so that maybe, just maybe, I can actually get them sent out before Christmas. Alas, I always get distracted with making birthday, sympathy, encouragement, thank you, friendship, and you name it cards. Seeing the Christmas in July theme on the Cut It Up and CAS on Friday challenges gave me the kick I needed to get started. I checked the ABC Christmas challenge for this month and saw one of the letters is "N" for "non-Christmas stash." As a proud crazy cat lady I can work a cat into any kind of card. I still had the Cat Collage die from Poppy Stamps out after making this birthday card for my brother, so why not use it for a Christmas card? The Peace on Earth Christmas challenge has a lovely mood board, so I went through my background stash and found one to pick up the blues.
When I am playing with ink or a technique, I will make lots of backgrounds and figure out what to do with them later, this means I don't always remember exactly what I did on a particular one when I get around to using it. On this one I ink smooshed with, I think, Dylusions Balmy Night shimmer and Tim Holtz Winter Frost mica sprays. It is bluer than it looks in the photo. I cut a piece of it slightly larger than the square I cut the cat from and, to pick up the silver in the above photo, swiped the edges with silver metallic ink from Color Box. I cut the star from gold foil using a die from Memory Box. I used gold embossing powder and a sentiment from the Stampin' Up set, Star of Light, on the front and a sentiment from Close to My Heart inside. It says "A silent night, a star above, a blessed gift of hope and love." Now I have one Christmas card for 2025!
Thank you for stopping by! Until next time, Hansi
This is beautiful, Hansi! That cat die is so elegant and I think it's perfect for a starry Christmas card with that awesome background! Thank you for joining Cut It Up and congratulations on getting that first card done for this year! Hugs, Darnell GD CIU
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