Hello and welcome. Anyone who's ever been "owned" by a cat totally understands the middle of the night Opera "shows". Possibly the furry "overlord" is expecting breakfast at 3am (or in my house it's 5am opera feed me alarm shows). Perhaps your morning alarm isn't a clock but getting the "feed me" smack in the face? I have and my toes have been bitten as an alarm. Either way, cats have their own special way of reminding human servants who rules, and runs, the house. With all of this in mind, my card for today's
Cat Lovers Hop pays homage to our clever, sneaky but talented, furry members of our families.
I originally bought these stamps from the
Rubbernecker Stamps booth from one of the stamp conventions held in San Jose, California (don't remember the name) at least 10-12 years ago and never used. Boy did I get a steal from the
Rubbernecker booth - several individual stamps and 3 grab bags all for a steal of a price. My grab bags didn't have any duplicates either - now how often does that happen. However, I digress. I've checked the
Rubbernecker site and don't see them for sale anymore.
I started out by stamping the background in memento tuxedo black ink onto white card stock before stamping the remaining images (there are 5 total here) onto scrap white card stock before coloring using prismacolor pencils. I then trimmed down the colored images before adhering them to my background using some
Bearly Arts glue I received for my birthday then layered the panel. I then stippled Tim Holtz
chipped sapphire,
walnut stain, and
mowed lawn distress inks using
blending brushes from
Picket Fence Studios. After adding some white brads, I adhered the finished image panel to a navy card using glue dots. The only other embellishments added were, crystal ice stickles around the moon and a clear glitter gel pen to create night stars in the sky and highlight the trash can lid.
Challenges entered:
Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great day and don't forget to hop along (link is above). I once again leave you with greetings of two more of my cats.
Puff aka THE Princess (and she knows it too LOL) (age 10)
Miss Lily - our loving but very timid lady (Puff's sister age 10)
Our dear, sweet Mama - she was a kitten who had kittens in our woodpile outside eating moldy lunches our son would hide from us back then. As soon as we saw her and her kittens, they were upgraded to the guest bathroom with good foods, water and a warm/cool play to live. She really was mama to Spot (day 2 hop), Bubba (day 1) Lily (day 3) and Princess Puff (day 3). We kept her and her whole surviving litter. The worst thing she did in life was ever so lightly tap on our foot/lower leg when she wanted pets. She passed away Sept 2021 from kidney failure and seizures. The picture was taken the night before she passed. She is so missed.
Stamps: Rubbernecker
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Chipped Sapphire, Mowed Lawn, Walnut Stain
Card Stock: Stampin Up; Scraps
Accessories: Prismacolor Pencils, PFS Blending Brushes, Brads, Ice Stickles, Gel Pens, Glue Dots
