ARDENT CAT LOVER

There I said it - I'm an ardent cat lover - I've had cats since I was 7 years old so that makes it nearly 50 years!!! Although I have dogs also I would never be without a cat.  At the moment I have three - two are rescues and one we've had from a kitten.  They are now 12, 9 and 8 - the 9 year old I've only had a year and she was one of the rescue cats that came into my pens when I was a volunteer for our local Cat's Protection.  Their names are Pepper, grey and white and the oldest, Jet black - and Amber the rescue is a female ginger - very rare.

So I was delighted to find a cat blog hop this week!  Her Peaceful Garden looks as though she has run a cat blog hop for the past five years - what fun.  

I decided to use a Clearly Besotted set called Fluffy Furball for my entry.  I coloured the cats in the colours of my three cats.

I went a bit mad with the background colours using Tim Holtz distress inks.I masked off all the cats and the little extra such as the wool, the fish and the mouse whilst I did the background. I used a Tim Holtz stencil called splatters to add the splatters with white ink.  The cats were coloured in with Derwent Metallic pencils and some Stampin Up Watercolour pencils. I added Glossy Accents to the eyes and some Liquid Pearls in Pewter.  The sentiment comes fro Stampin Up's Pretty Kitty.

Amber

 Jet

Pepper

I'm also adding this into the following challenges:

Animal Friends Challenge #79
My time to craft - Halloween or cats
Lost Coast Portal - Pets
Dare 2B Artzy - Cute Pets
SUYP
2 Crafty Critter Crazies