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





 

ALL ABOUT THE CATS

I found another new challenge site on my journey around blog land - this one is called Crazy for CAS  and they have a sketch for us to work with - 




Now - when I first saw this site I must admit I thought it said crazy for Cats - which I am !!  So I think this influenced my card design! 

I used some gorgeous papers I have in my stash from Do Crafts I think as the background piece  - I used the Fluffy Furball stamp set from Clearly Besotted. I stamped and cut out the little ginger cat and gave her a fish to drool over!  This was then added to a stitched framelit - a simple sentiment and some butterflies punched out of the same paper finishes off the card - I hope it's CAS enough.

Whilst I had this set out and I was clearly in a cat mood I decided to change the breed of cat to Siamese!  I cut each cat out (I think there is a matching framelit set but I don't have it) and coloured them in with SU watercolour pens.  I added some Glossy Accents to their eyes to really make them pop.  The background paper is from the same stack as the one above.  I added a bit of SU ribbon and the sentiment is from another Clearly Besotted set Thanks a Bouquet.  The button was from my stash.

I'm adding this one into the following challenges I've found recently:

Everybody Art Challenge - Animals

Papercraft Challenge - Critters