Me and My Dragon

Just popping in to share a card I made with another of my latest purchases - 'Me and My Dragon' stamps by Mama Elephant.

I stamped and watercoloured the dragon and girl on watercolour paper then cut them out. To make the ink for spritzing the background I just loaded some green paint into an empty spritzer bottle using a wet paintbrush and added a little water. A little goes a long way.  

I tried the same with the grey paint at the bottom, using copier paper to mask off the rest of the card. This left too harsh a line though so I softened it with a wet paintbrush. 

Fan-tash-tic Day

Hello lovely peeps

A CAS card today using the Three Amigos stamp set from Mama Elephant.

Fur or Feathers at AYLI

Hello lovely peeps

I'm chuffed to bits to be appearing as a Guest Designer at As You Like It today. They have challenges once a fortnight where you have to choose between 2 options and explain why.
The theme this time is Fur or Feathers, and as my logo includes a cat it really had to be 'Fur' for me.

Strangely I don't actually have many cat stamps as I don't often come across one that I like, but I love this background from IndigoBlu - 'Kibble Kits'. I stamped it onto watercolour card with Black Versafine ink and coloured it with Distress Oxides (I splodged them onto my craft mat and picked up the colour with a damp paintbrush).

I fussy cut along the top around all the ears and trimmed the edges down before mounting it on more watercolour card.

There are larger cat stamps that go with this background but I don't have them (yet). Instead I've used one of the images from the Three Amigos set by Mama Elephant which has three adorable critters holding up signs.

The set includes lots of little words but I wanted some a little (OK, a lot) more cheesy so I printed some sentiments off onto watercolour card from my computer (Verdana font, size 11).

 and stamped the cat around them.

I coloured in with the Distress Oxides again and cut out the cat with a little border.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Show us Your Pussies-Cat Only Challenge #21 Furrything Goes
Cardz 4 Galz # 54 Cats or kittens
SSS Work it wednesday  STAMPtember
2 Crafty Critter Crazies #5 Anything Goes with a critter
Crafty Animals  #5 Anything Goes
Oddball Art Stamps  Life in technicolor
That's Crafty! Challenge Blog Only cards
Deep Ocean Challenge #162 Fave Colour combo 

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x