Tuesday 4 October 2011

Christmas Cats

Wow - thanks so much for all your great festive entries to our Christmas challenge.  We'll have a hard job choosing our top three - thank goodness random org choosed the winner.  This week it's Zoe's turn to choose the them and she has this to say -

'As I write Mistress Minx is resting on the back of the sofa behind me you are never far from a feline in this house! So that is my challenge this time to you all please make anything you like in any medium or style but it must feature a cat or cats. Have fun.'

As a fellow cat lover I really enjoyed creating my card for this theme - I even managed to keep it Christmas !  
I used various colours of distress inks on my craft mat and spritzed with water before smooshing a piece of coated card stock to create a patterned sheet which I stamped on with my cat stamp several times choosing areas I thought would make good cat markings. I created a reverse image for a bit of variation by rolling my brayer over the inked stamp and then rolling it on to the card stock. I created a distress inks background with masked moon, brick wall and flying Santa before adding the cut out cats, glamour dust and some white flower soft. 
I wonder if Santa visits cats too....?

To join our furry fun get on over to Craft-Room challenge and add a link so we can visit your creation and you may be the winner of a £10 voucher to spend in The Craft-Room store.

By the way have you seen our treasure hunt, there is a fabulous Indigo Blu stamp plate to be won! Click here for details.

I'm sharing this at  -

Esther xx

27 comments:

  1. This caught my eye straight away! What a fun and different christmas card.
    Sharon

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  2. Just fabulous! My newest favorite of your creations. Kim xx

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  3. Hi Esther!!! Such a clever card!! Love what you did with the kitties :)))))))

    Hugzzzzz
    Tammy xx

    PS* I have some candy up for grabs at Creations LaDiva :) Hope to see you there !

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  4. Hei Esther,
    this is absolutely stunning creation, love it!!!
    Super;-))m

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  5. A fabulous card Esther. I love the reversed cat and the background and sparkle.
    xxx Hazel.

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  6. Such a great card and I love the distressing techniques you have used - I am really impressed and wish I could do that!

    Sharon x

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  7. This is such a gorgeous card Esther! I'm sure Santa visits cats too, lol - if they behave! Maria x

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  8. Its a fabulous card love the cats on the wall, are they all working out how to catch the 'small' flying thing do you think? Thank you for this terrific creation and all your wonderful samples XOXO Zoe

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  9. This is brilliant Esther , I just love those cats :o) Hugs

    NIKKI

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  10. Lovely row of cats, I like the method you used to colour them. Super card. Jean x

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  11. Do you suppose they are wondering if Santa is going to leave them a present? LOL! Adorable card! Thanks for joining us at ABC Challenges. Good-luck and I hope we see you for our next challenge on the 15th!

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  12. Super adorable card!! Love the adorable cats!! Thank you very much for joining us this week at the Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog!

    Hugs...
    Melissa

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  13. Your card is so cute! I love the scene you created. Thanks for playing with us at ABC challenges!

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  14. Thanks for joining us at Crafty Cardmakers! I love the technique you used for the colours of the cats!! Very effective. Cxx

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  15. Fabulous card Esther, I love how you did the distress background for the cats, and very clever to reverse stamp. The end result is just wonderful. Love Julia xxxx

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  16. Gorgeous card Esther :-) I love the cats ,, very clever !! and the backgound is fabulous too :-) As a fellow cat lover (I have 8) this is right up my street :-)

    CONGRATULATIONS !! the random gen chose your number out of well over 1,000 entries !! :-)

    thanks for joining us on the Simon Says Stamp and PTW challenges :-) xx

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  17. gorgeous crad ,so much ink detail i love it,congrats on your win at simon says stamp
    enjoy your goodies
    tracey x

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  18. Well done on winning SSS - it's a great card. Jx

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  19. Oh really cute! I love how the cats are popped up:-)Thank you so much for joining us at CCT
    Hugs
    Michele S.

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  20. Great card. Love the colouring trick you used for the cats. I'll try it myself some time soon (I hope).

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  21. So pretty! I'm loving the dimension and the fact that you only see the back of everyone, haha! Thank you for celebrating with us at Papertake Weekly :)

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  22. Wau, congrats for winning the Simon Says Stamps Challenge;-))m

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  23. gorgeous card, love the cats in 3d!
    Many thanks for joining us at Cute Card Thursday for our animal crackers Challenge this week!
    have a great day, Debxx

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  24. This is a great card. Thanks for playing with ABC Challenges for our first return challenge.

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  25. great card esther, love those cats watching santa ;) debi x

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  26. Esther I love your card ! So many fabulous techniques here ! I am in awe ! makes a beautiful scene.

    Marie

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  27. Congrats on winning the Simon Says Challenge awhile back. Had to comment on this card. It is original, clever, great technique idea and execution, and even reversing a couple images. Great work!

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