Penny Black Cat Frolic - a glittery birthday card

Hi blogging friends

I am feeling pretty yuk this afternoon as I had a vaccination (Diptheria, Tetanus and Whooping Cough) this morning and just want to sit on the couch and do nothing as I have a bit of a temperature and I'm tired and a bit achy - but thought I should get on with finishing off some cards as I have a lot of extended-family birthdays coming up over the next few weeks.  We were at hospital all day yesterday with my loved one for routine appointments - all is going well thankfully - and we have more appointments next week so I don't have alot of crafting time at the moment.  So instead of being a blob on the couch, I have been busy trying to get ahead with my cards instead of leaving them to the last minute as is often the case!

Today I am sharing a card that I made for my sister-in-law's birthday:

The image is by Penny Black (of course - what else??!!) and is called 'Cat Frolic' which I think is adorable:  check out that happy smile!  I stamped the image onto watercolour paper using Versafine Vintage Sepia ink and coloured it using a mix of Tombow Pens plus Watercolour pencils and a paintbrush.  I lightly chalked around the image with blue chalk and added Kindyglitz Crystalina glitter glue to the flowers, butterflies and cat's cheeks.  I used my Arrows Border punch to punch 5 tiny little pink hearts out of pink glitter cardstock (ie: the leftover punchies which look like tiny little hearts to me) and glued them around the image.

I went for a really simple layout - one of my "go to" layouts when I can't think properly like I am now:  my head feels like it is stuffed with cotton wool!

The tag and sentiment are from My Favourite Things:  Notched Tag and Die set.  The heart on the sentiment is a die from the same set.  I picked a pink flower from the designer paper to diecut the heart then gave that the glitter-treatment too around the edges.  Here is a close-up:

The ribbon was attached in 2 separate elements and the bow itself was made using my Bow Easy.  I added Fray Stop to the cut ends to stop them from fraying.

Lastly, I added the 3 x pink Candi Dots using dimensionals.

After I finished my card, I thought the brown ink on the image/sentiment looked a little insipid so I went over the image/sentiment using a Faber-Castell Dark Sepia Artist pen which I was far happier with.

Finished size is 5-1/4" square or 135mm if you are metric.

Challenges:

I am entering my card in the following challenges -

Incy Wincy Designs Challenge - Birthdays 
Cute Card Thursday - Challenge 310 - Springtime 
  
Thanks for visiting my blog today - and thank you for any comments that you care to leave:  they make my day!

Jocelyn


Card Recipe:

Stamps:  Penny Black Frolic 3972K wood-mount, Sentiment - My Favorite Things from Notched Tag stamp set

Ink:  Versafine Vintage Sepia

Designer paper:  American Crafts Yes Please - Play 12" x 12"

Accessories:  Big Shot, Spellbinder Decorative Labels 1 dies, My Favorite Things Notched Tag die set, 140lb watercolour paper, Tombow Pens, Faber-Castell + Lyra watercolour pencils, small #2 round paintbrush, Kaisercolour chalks, Candi dots, dimensionals, 1 cm wide ribbon, Bow Easy, Fray Stop, Kindyglitz Crystalina glitter glue, cardstock - pink glitter, duck egg blue

Punches:  EK Success Arrows border