Best Day For Cats

 

Gosh, I've had some fun with this stamp set but it's retiring at the end of April. I've probably used the cupcake kitty most of the images, its always fun deciding which colour cat it will be this time.

Best Day hasn't been reduced in price, but it's still a good buy with a couple of verses you can use on the inside of a card.

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Love Cats

Sometimes as the end of a catalogue approaches you find a stamp set that hasn't been used, and if it is retiring it's even worse! I bought Love Cats early on in the year and fully intended to use it a lot, but it didn't happen. Over Easter, when it was so cold and wet, I made this birthday card.

Using Delicate Desert DSP for the front, it was die cut with Picture This dies. The same process was used with Rain & Shine specialty DSP, and two of the windows were inserted behind the cats. They have been heat embossed with black embossing powder, it gives them a nice sheen.

Even this one on the inside has been heat embossed but the verse is just stamped in black Memento ink. Best Day is another retiring stamp set with a cat, and that is where that little sentiment came from.

Delicate Desert DSP $14.70

On Sunday night I am sharing 4 more cards using Delicate Desert DSP and an assortment of stamp sets.

            

Rain & Shine DSP $21.60

Best Day - $41.00

 

Love Cats -$37.00

Picture This Dies $54.00

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Elephant Parade

 

The artist who drew these baby elephants did a great job capturing the cuteness of them. While they are certainly a little cartoonish, there is that look of a new baby elephant about the images as well.

Picture This dies create cute windows to place items in, and I will definitely be keeping my dies. From cute creatures, pretty flowers and small sentiments, they can all find their place within this die.

The unfortunate end to this short tale (tail) is that the Elephant Parade stamp has sold out in Australia. The Elephant dies are still in the shop. I've been using Best Day a lot, especially the sentiments. I love colouring the kitty in a cupcake, but having a sentiment for the inside is the icing on the cake.

Click on picture to order - $26.40 reduced from $44

Unfortunately, Elephant Parade stamp has sold out.

Best Day $41 - retiring soon

Picture This dies reduced 10% to $54.

Have you been able to pick up any bargains in the Last Chance sale?

Do you have a wish list for the new catalogue? Such an exciting time in the stamping year!!!

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Best Day

 

A second card, also using Best Day but a different stamp was used to make another version using a different colour combination.

After stamping the image in black Memento ink, I used blending brushes to apply colour.

The image was cut using Stitched Rectangles dies. and layered skewed over a Poppy Parade rectangle of a similar size.

The party streamer stamp was used on the inside of the card, in the background of the focal piece and heat embossed in white on the card base.

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Colour Creations -Week #40 - Poppy Parade

 

The participants in AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop are all Stampin' Up! demonstrators and members of Art With Heart. We love to Blog Hop sharing all the Stampin' Up! Colours alphabetically. This is week #40 and the lovely Poppy Parade is our colour.

Sometimes, even when you like the colour, and I do like Poppy Parade, it can be hard to think of a new way to feature it. Inspiration can be sought from designer series paper quite often, but this time I've taken a leaf out of my friend Tina's book and had a look to see what Brian King had combined.

Tahitian Tide and Poppy Parade are very happy companions, I wasn't so sure about the Highland Heather! The answer to that is to use only a tiny amount and it seems to have worked.

In fact, the colours in the finished project remind me so much of Dr Zeus's Cat in the Hat!

I had some fun stamping sentiments on the background in a organised-random way. Yes, that does sound a bit contradictory, but I wanted the words to be straight, while scattered. The Stamparatus helped me achieve that with a combination of step-stamping and moving the white card stock.

There are several sentiments in Best Day so a different one was stamped inside.

Next talented team member to share is Tina Gillespie, so let's see how she has mixed up the colours!

If at any time you find a broken link or would like to see a full list of participants, please head to the blog of our host of the AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop, Catherine Proctor.

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