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Spooky Cat meets Hearth and Home/Happy Scenes

 

I getting ready to post some BOGO retired sets next week and couldn't resist letting the cats look out the Hearth & Home window before I let it go.  I'm almost having second thoughts...

• I used today's color challenge 650 at Splitcoaststampers as a starting point and chose the dotted paper from the Delightful Daisy DSP to bring in one of the colors, Tranquil Tide.  Instead of using it as a wallpaper as I first started to do, I decided it looked kind of like snow and used it for my "outside" view.
• The cats are punched from Crumb Cake and Soft Suede, two more colors from the challenge.  I sponged the edges and trimmed the Crumb Cake Cat's tail so that I could reposition it as wrapped around that cat.
• There is a skinny little diagonal type stripe in the Spooky Cat set, an image I would normally use for collage. This time I used it to stamp another challenge color, Soft Sky, to put a stripe on the walls. If you turn the stamp 180 degrees each time you stamp it is easy to get these to blend into longer stripes.
• Here's the fun part: the Window Frame! I die cut three windows and stamped one layer for the top with on of the "texture" type stamps from the Spooky Cat set. This gives a grain to the wood of my window frame.
• I layered the 3 window layers together and sponged the edges before attaching it to the snowy piece of dsp.
• I embossed the words from Happy Scenes (retired - one of the sets originally intended to go with the window frame) onto a piece of Tranquil Tide that would be my floor or carpet. I used an old bottle of white embossing powder which looks a little closer to Very Vanilla than Whisper White. Then I added some more light touches of the texture stamp I used for the wood for some subtle shading to the floor.
• I cut and stamped a 4th frame and cut it apart for some "baseboard trim" before adding the pair of cats.
• Here is a close-up of texture I added:

Yes, the window frame is great to use with the cat punch! If you happen to have one hold on to it! Another set that is fun to use is the Jar of Love set (p29 in the annual catalog).  That will have to be for another stamping session!

Thank you for stopping by

 

and heeere's Spooky Cat!

As I showed earlier the Spooky Cat Bundle doesn't HAVE to be used just for Halloween but then again, why not? I have 3 cards for you today:

• The cat punch works with the Spooky Night DSP so you can punch out black or orange cats.  Ah, memories of the construction paper cutouts, my mom would put put on our windows years ago.
• The other images for this little collage were cut out from the paper. I stamped the bubbles for the experiment bottles with the Spooky Cat set.
• The card base is Very Vanilla.
• All products Stampin' Up!

• More DSP.
• The Spooky Night DSP has two sheets with 16 moon/tree backgrounds on each. These are perfect for stamping the 3 part owl. My owl is stamped with Smoky Slate and Basic Gray for the rings around his eyes, Crushed Curry for beak and feet.  The beak and feet are one stamp. You may want to check to see that you don't have any extra ink on the photopolymer between the two. Or you can just figure that the owl is drooling... This kind of gets covered up with the owl greeting though.
• The little rat stamp will be fun to use in lots of places.
• I used my Smokey Slate marker to add a little depth to my owl, just drawing around the edges.
• Can you see the little bit of Black Vintage Crochet trim adn Black Rhinestone Jewels?

 

• This card was inspired by Ute Gast's egg card.
• I used the largest Circle Framelit from Layering Circles for the So Saffron moon.
• It would be easier to sponge the circle prior to punching out the cat. I just used So Saffron, thinking I would add Crushed Curry or Pumpkin Pie later but I liked the simplicity of just So Saffron for this look.
• You might want to experiment with placement of the cat - die cut some extra circles!

That is it for today. Happy stamping!

Chris