Grey Birthday Cats on Pink

 

The Word Power Challenge is a new challenge for me.  It is anything goes as long as the main focus is on the sentiment.  Did I mention that the Cut It Up challenge is to add a sentiment?  The Color Hues challenge is to use pink and grey. so that would be my color scheme.  First things first: a background.  I went though my stash and found a pink one I made using pink re=inkers to watercolor which I wasn't happy with and stuffed away.  I decided it was time to see if I could salvage it.  I added some large splatters and let them run and dry naturally.  I liked it much better except for the center.  A birthday die from CZ Design cut from silver foil along with the shadow in vellum would disguise it.  Silver is grey, isn't it?  I used the Sacred Spells text stamp from Lavinia and a curly corner stamp by Inkadinkado with Shadow Grey Archival and Gina K Medium Carnation inks to lightly random stamp the background for interest. One of my favorite cat dies is Impression Obsession's cat set which cuts six small cats in different poses.  I always have some ready to go in my stash, so I picked out two in grey and used Prismacolor pencils to give them dimension.  This was a challenge because my pointy eared darlings have long hair and manes, so you really don't see their bodies.  I swiped more grey ink along the edges, put everything together, and my card was done, so I thought.  The silver sentiment outshoned the cats!  According to Luna and Call That. Will. Not. Do.  I cut a white happy birthday and carefully glued it over the silver.  Much better!  I also plan to enter this in the Show Us Your Pussycats Challenge.

Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time, Hansi