Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Purrfectly Delightful Card

Purrfectly Delightful


Technique:  Papercraft

Materials:
cat with flower digi from Motivet
co-ordinating bazzil
Basic Grey DP
Copics
Fur: E31, E33, E35, E37
Green: YG61, Y63, YG67
Orange: YR02, YR04, YR07, C1
Distress Ink: Bundled Sage
button
warm and natural batting
adhesive

Tools:
Sizzix Big Shot
Tim Holtz Alerations: Tattered Florals die
Spellbinders leaves die
Spellbinders scalloped circles die

My husband's birthday is next week, and with a little help from the youngest, this is the card we made for him.  Our little one picked the image, he has such a fondness for cats.  Usually I would do a fairly smooth rendering of the fur when colouring, but I wanted to join in on the i-Copic challenge this week to colour fur, so I deliberately tried for a textured look.  I was quite pleased with the result and would probably do it again to simulate long fur.


Purrfectly Delightful


The designer paper is from the Mellow range by Basic Grey, and I chose this before colouring the flower the cat is holding, so that the image would co-ordinate with whatever paper I chose.  I wanted a card and a colour scheme that whilst cute was still decidedly masculine, as it was being given from son to father.

The flower is cut from warm and natural quilt batting, which I left completely untouched as it has a lovely, rustic fleck through it already, and has a vintage leather button in the centre.  The leaves are using a Spellbinder die which is inked with Bundled Sage distress ink along the edges. The scalloped circle is also a Spellbinder nestie.

The sentiment inside reads : "Have a PURR-fectly delightful day".

This card was smaller than I usually make, only 5", whereas most of the other cards I had made 6" square.  The DP was perfect for the image, but pretty busy, I felt it favoured a smaller card.  What is your favourite card size?  I am still experimenting to see which I like best, I think the larger cards favour larger and more flamboyant embellishments.

Challenges:  
i-Copic: Fur
Here Come the Boys: Critters

5 comments:

  1. Aaawww!! You did such an amazing job on your fur and I love the flower! Thanks so much for joining us this week at icopic : )
    Hugs~
    Dana

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  2. WOW the fur looks super! Thanks so much for playing along with the iCopic Weekly Challenge. Hope to see you again this week!
    Hugs,
    Samantha
    www.thescrapmaster.com

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  3. Oh just purrrrrfect!what a sweet kitten.Love your colouring. Thanks for playing at HERE COME THE BOYS.
    Hugs Di
    xxx

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  4. Oh What a great card! Love the image and your colouring is purrrrfect! Thank you for playing along at Here Come The Boys! Woo & Jacky xx

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  5. Fabulous indeed, love your colouring,thanks for joining HERE COME THE BOYS this time,Karenxx

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