Pretty Kitty and Friends
This is a tale of two, a Kitty and a Puppy. They were playing and Kitty got into the knitting basket and became tangle up in the thread. Puppy tried to help after Kitty pounched on him, but all he could do was sit and look at her situation because the thread was tangled around him also. Kitty’s situation is much like life, we get ourselves all tangled up into something and have no idea how to get out of it.
Today’s card is from Stampin’ Up’s! Pretty Kitty and Bella and Friends stamp sets. Inspiration and design comes from a combination of Fusion Stamps and Double “D” Challenges -Snuggle Up Buttercup. Both seem similar enough to me that both challenges can be joined.
Both challenges have cable knit throws and red, so I chose to emboss at panel with the Cable Kit Embossing Folder and make a blanket for them to sit on out of a scrap from the Festive Farmhouse DSP. I tore the DSP around the edges to give it a ragged blanket look. 
Kitty was stamped then masked so Puppy could be stamped sitting beside her. They are then colored with watercolor pencils and popped on their blanket with Stampin Dimensionals. An extra ball of yarn was stamped and colored with the Real Red watercolor pencils. It was popped on the Mixed Real Red Satin Ribbon as is the “Life is Messy” greeting.
Gold Metallic Thread is wound all through the art piece to give it the look of having thread tangled all over both Kitty and Puppy.
The inside sentiment is stamped on a panel of Whisper White using Memento Black Ink. It is adhered to the Real Red mat using Multipurpose Glue.
Thanks for stopping by today. My wish as always is that you find inspiration and encouragement for your creative endeavors.
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The card base is Tranquil Tide cut 4-1/4″ x 11″ scored at 5-1/2″. The mat is Cajun Craze cut at 5-1/4″ x 4″ adhered to the base with Multipurpose Liquid Glue. All card stock has been embossed using the Subtle Embossing Folder. Have I told you before I love this folder, it makes card stock look so much better, not so blah! 
The panel for the plaid is Whisper White and Mint Macaron ink has been used to stamp the Buffalo Checks. It took three stamping to get the color of Mint Macaron wanted. A Cajun Craze Stampin Write Marker was used to make the wide stripe across the checks, then the pen end of a Tranquil Tide Stampin’ Write Marker was use to make the narrow stripe. Embossing the plaid panel makes it look like fabric. This turned out making a nice plaid.
Two circles were cut from Blackberry Bliss and Cajun Craze to frame the Whisper White circle that the Happy Birthday was stamped using Blackberry Bliss ink. Three Faceted Dots in Blackberry Bliss were adhered. The flowers are from the Botanical Blisss stamp set and was stamped in Blackberry Bliss and then Versa Mark and heat embossed using Clear Embossing Powder. They were colored using Blackberry Bliss and Mint Macaron ink and a Blender pen. Twigs cut from Blackberry Bliss, Cajun Craze, Mint Macaron, and Tranquil Tide were adhered using Glue Dots. 
A Linen Thread bow is attached using a Glue Dot also. I call this my Mary Deatherage bow as she is the one who showed me how to make it. After the circles flowers, twigs and bow were attached to the Mint Macaron plaid panel, it was adhered to the Cajun Craze panel using Multipurpose Liquid Glue.
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