Moongazing Love Cats

 

This card was inspired the photo prompt below for the Through the Purple Haze "Anything Goes With Optional Color Palette" challenge using a love theme for the My Time to Craft "All You Need is Love" and Cut It Up "Love or Valentine's Day" challenges.

 I started by blending Ripe Persimmon, Peacock Feathers, Broken China and Chipped Sapphire Distress inks onto white cardstock.  I cut the cats using a punch from Stampin' Up, flipped one and intertwined their tails.  After making note of where they would be on the card I carefully masked off parts of the Wildflowers stamp by Simon Says Stamp so the flowers would frame the cats without creating busyness behind them.  I cut the heart out of Grapefruit Grove holographic paper from Stampin' Up using one of their dies and used another Stampin' Up die to cut the word love three times and stacked them.  Once assembled, I matted the panel with more of the Grapefruit Grove holographic paper and black cardstock.  Lastly I embellished the card with Iridescent Crystals from Studio Katia.

Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time, Hansi

For an Artist Turning 80

 

Although I shouldn't after all these years, I still get a little nervous making cards for my brother-in-law, an artist who taught printmaking at the local university for 51 years.  I brayered Medium Magenta and Bright Aqua Green Liquitex acrylic paints onto my gel press and pulled a print for the background.  The interesting thing is when you mix red and green you get mud, but for some reason when you mix a turquoise green and pink you get mauve and violet.  I cut out a piece to use on an A2 sized card, and then used Birch Press Design's String Frame die to cut a cover plate from silver foil.  I cut the numbers three times from white cardstock and once from the darkest sheet in Stampin' Up's silver specialty paper pack.  I love the purple cast and lined texture of it.

Here is the inside.

The sentiments was cut from the same paper and print using a Simon Says Stamp die by CZ Design.  My brother-in-law and sister have a spoiled rotten ginger cat, so I used a die from Spellbinders to cut a cat from a scrap from another gel press print.

I plan to enter this in the Mix It Up Anything Goes Plus Optional Foiling, Seize the Birthday Sparkle and Shine, and Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes With Dies challenges.  Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time, Hansi