Crazy Cat Lady

When I was a little girl, old people's homes always seemed to be full of crochet. Crochet antimacassars and arm rest covers on the chairs, crochet mats and runners on the sideboard and coffee table, little crochet doileys underneath every ornament. So I decided to pair my almost-crazy cat lady (stamped with a Hampton Arts stamp and coloured with Promarkers) with some faux crochet doileys, fussy cut from Curiosity Corner papers, and background paper reminiscent of the floral chintzy wallpaper and fabric designs that old people seemed to have when I was a child. The woman in the picture actually looks a bit like my Great Aunt Evelyn, whose home in the late 1950s was crammed with crochet and chintz! 

I am sharing this with 

Alphabet Challenge - Old Folk  

The 2020 Cat Lovers Hop 

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers - X is for fauX  

Birthday Cat

 No, you're not imagining it, I really didn't post a cat card yesterday. We had the grandchildren here for the day, and as the coronavirus situation is worsening and we don't know what will be happening at Christmas, we decided to have Christmas Dinner together yesterday. We spent the morning cooking together, got out all the festive table linen and serving dishes and then downloaded a film and spent the afternoon vegging out in front of the TV. Just like a real Christmas Day, and the grandchildren loved ot - so did we! But I'm back with a kitty card today. 

A card made with just dies and an embossing folder, for a change. The smocking folder is a very useful one as it has two completely different effects depending which way round you use it. I tried the cat die cut against both surfaces and it stood out best against this one. 

I am sharing this with 

Watercooler Wednesday - All About Occasions  

The Cat Lovers Blog Hop 

Be careful where you plant your kitty!

 

After all, you want it to grow up big and strong!

This stamp is another from the bargain set I mentioned a couple of days ago. I've coloured this one with Promarkers, and added a background paper printed from a Coosty Creations download, a piece of really cute kitty ribbon from Crafty Ribbons and an adhesive pre-printed sentiment. 

This is another entry into the Cat Lovers Hop at Her Peaceful Garden

And since there's lots of black, I am also sharing at Passion For Promarkers - Purple and/or Black 

The Tale of Tom Kitten

 For my next cat card I've pressed my old faithful Beatrix Potter CD into action. The is a Create and Craft club freebie from many years ago,  and is a sampler from what was, at the time, Crafter's Companion's newly released Beatrix Potter CD. 

I've used two background papers, a border and a decoupage set from the CD. 

I'm sharing this with

The Cat Lovers Blog Hop at Her Peaceful Garden 

CD Sunday Plus - anything goes 

Show us your Pussycats - Furrything Goes 

Black Cat Season #2020CatLoversHop

 I'm not a Halloween fan, but  I'll take any excuse to stamp a black cat! Especially as today is Day 1 of the Cat Lovers Hop over at Her Peaceful Garden - if you'd like to find out more about it, click on the pretty kitty badge which you'll find in the sidebar over there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 

My first card is sort-of Halloweeny - I don't have any Halloween sentiments but I've used the traditional orange and purple colours for the background. 

I smooshed the orange ink onto the card - it was pure luck that splodges the perfect size to spotlight the kitties formed - then blended in the purple to fill the gaps. The stamps are from a set I bought from a cat gift shop that was getting rid of all their craft supplies (foolish people!) and didn't have a brand name on the pack. 

Naturally I am joining in with the Cat Lovers Hop

And I'm also sharing at Sweet Stampin as it's the closest I'm likely to get to a Halloween card! 

Two months today....

 ... it will be Christmas Day. I wonder if we'll be able to have our usual family celebrations, or will we be in lockdown, or something in between? We're making two sets of plans, one for a family Christmas and one for a just-the-two-of-us one. 

Anyway, I've made this card following the sketch at Fezziwig's Festive Frolics and using  elements from Hunkydory's "Wonderful Wintertime" collection plus a couple of die cut corners. There was a border strip left over from another card so I've added that to the inside

 I am sharing this with

Fab'nFunky - Christmas  

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes  

Rudolph Day at Scrappymo's 

Jingle Belles - Not a creature was stirring  

Fezziwig's Festive Frolics - Sketch  

On the right track

 It seems to be a few days since I posted - not that I haven't been crafting, I've been busy getting ready for the forthcoming cat lovers blog hop. Anyway, here is a card that is very much not cat themed and once again uses stamps from the gorgeous Indigo Blu magazine kit. 

I'm sure that, like me, you can't bear to throw away a even a tiny snippet of white card, because it's so useful,  and end up with a boxful of bits and pieces of all kinds of different textures and shaded of white. Try die cutting them to make a W-o-W card and you'll see just how many different shades you have. But once they are stamped, coloured or embossed the differences become negligible so a card like this is a great way to clear some of the surplus. 

First of all I cut a square to fit the card and painted it all over with a matt silver watercolour paint. When it was dry I sponged a hint of black ink around the edges then embossed the whole thing with a cog wheel embossing folder, Cogs & Gears from Creative Expressions. 

Then I stamped all the elements onto snippets of white, coloured in the engine and added a sentiment from the pack of adhesive sentiments I won in the playground recently, and matted the engine onto red card. I did add a few die cut cogs but they pushed it over the border into Too Much Going On so I whipped them off again before the glue dried.

I am sharing this with

The first ever challenge at  the new blog Let's Squash It! , a challenge that wants us all to show more love for our embossing folders. The theme is Geometric and Metallic. 

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge 389  

Watercooler Wednesday - anything goes with a masculine twist