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A clean and simple challenge caught my eye this week and I thought the optional twist sounded fun.

And here's my offering

Materials used:

• stamps - Stamptember 2020 (Tim Holtz)
• card - basic white, granny apple green
• Copic markers - E42,E43,Y21,Y32,G20,G40,G43,R05,R24,R27
• other - craft foam, blending brush, Sahara sand marker, MISTI, white gel pen

Thanks for dropping by.

Cheers

Kerry

Edited to add: I was lucky to have my card picked in the Top 3 for this challenge. Many thanks to the AAA Cards design team. 

JAI #592 - Just Choose Two

Hi there! I hope you're excited to see what the new challenge is all about over at Just Add Ink this week.

If you're a regular visitor here you'll know that texture and layers are right up my alley! But I didn't stop there for my offering - no, I went and included the third option as well. What can I say? Sometimes I'm an overachiever, lol. 

I've used texture paste through a stencil and some woodgrain patterned paper for my 'texture' and 'patterned paper' elements, with 'layers' of ink on the background and of card for the frame (chipboard and patterned paper). Using patterned paper such as the woodgrain I've used here is a great way of adding 'faux' texture to your work if you don't have texture pastes or embossing folders. 

Snarky cats are so irreverent and cheeky - I love how they make us laugh at ourselves, which is often just what we need to lighten our day.

Materials used:

• stamps - Snarky Cats (Tim Holtz)
• card - watercolour, chipboard, woodgrain patterned paper (Paper Rose), crumb cake (SU)
• distress oxide inks/sprays - vintage photo, fossilized amber, spiced marmalade, salvaged patina, cracked pistachio
• TH products - Decor frames Bigz die, splat box, distress texture paste (matte), bricked mini stencil, vintage photo archival ink
• other - sponge daubers, Big Shot Switch, mounting tape, blending brush, Dimensionals, craft foam, spatula

We'd love you to choose two elements from our challenge and share your creation in our gallery. There's more samples to inspire you over at the JAI blog, so hightail it over there to see for yourself!

Thanks for dropping by.

Cheers

Kerry

Snarky Cat is Back in Da House!

My bestie had a birthday way back in July but because we've been in deep lockdown we haven't caught up since before that. Consequently - especially as she didn't want me to mail it - I hadn't had the opportunity to give her her card and gift. FINALLY we managed to catch up (single person bubble for the win!) and now I can show the card to you as well.

I made a double front card because I needed three parts to play out my plan and used black and white (her fav) plus one colour. As she's got a year or three on me, I chose snarky cats to make a dig at age 😉. Here's the front:

This is the inside front

And then the very inside

Luckily, she laughed. 

Materials used:

• stamps - Snarky Cats (Tim Holtz)
• card - basic black, basic white
• other - Copic markers, blending brushes, salvaged patina distress oxide ink, texture paste, Dimensionals, mini dots and numbers stencils (Tim Holtz), white embossing powder, heat tool, white gel pen

Hopefully, with vaccination numbers up, we'll soon be at the end of this veeeeeeerrrrrrrryyyyy long tunnel and able to get out and about again. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kerry

Oh Humbug

This week I've challenged my ladies to feature Something Beginning With S on their cards and, inspired by the JAI sketch but changing it up a little, I made this card featuring Snarky Cat wearing a Santa hat and Scarf on a Smooshed background - so many S's, lol.  

The brightness of the sun when I took the photo has bleached out the gold a bit, but there's gold ink in the outlines around the HO HO HO, on the jingle bells on Snarky's tail and splattered in the background. You can see them better in this pic:

He does look rather supremely unimpressed, doesn't he? Poor Snarky! 

Materials used:

• stamps - Snarky Cats Stamptember 2020 (Tim Holtz)
• card - mossy meadow, watercolour
• distress inks - a whole bunch but I didn't write them down! (sorry Rob 😇)
• dies - stitched rectangle (Paper Rose), Varsity Alphabet (Tim Holtz)
• other - aqua painter, paint brush, Delicata golden glitz ink, heat tool, water spritzer, craft foam, Dimensionals, white gel pen

I hope your day is going better than this and that, unlike Snarky, you're looking forward to the holiday. Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kerry