Grey Birthday Cats on Pink

 

The Word Power Challenge is a new challenge for me.  It is an "anything goes" one as long as the main focus is on the sentiment.  Did I mention that the Cut It Up challenge is to add a sentiment and I needed a birthday card?  The Color Hues challenge is to use pink and grey. so  now I had my concept.  

First things first: a background.  I went though my stash and found a pink one that I made using pink re-inkers to watercolor and stashed away because I wasn't happy with it and didn't have time to deal with it.  Now was time to try to 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.  I wanted something to dress up the sentiment.  When in doubt, try a cat.  One of my favorite cat dies is Impression Obsession's cat set which cuts six small cats in different poses.  I have never cut the dies apart for fear of losing one, so every time I use it I have extras for my stash ready to go.  I picked out two in grey and used Prismacolor pencils to shade and 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, or so I thought.  The silver sentiment outshoned the cats!  As Luna and Calli informed me, "That. Will. Not. Do."  I cut a second "it's your birthday" in white 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