Snarky cat Christmas card

Hello and welcome, 

My first Christmas card this year. I have used some of the new stamp set’s from Tim Holtz for this quite small card, 10x13 cm. Normally I make bigger cards.

I started with the background cut from mixed media heavystock. I smooshed Walnut stain Distress ink on my craft mat and spritzed with water, dipped the card and heated with my heat tool. Build up layers and dried in between. Then the same procedure with Distress Oxide in Speckled egg. Then I stamped the Music & Advert CMS358, with the new Distress color Rustic Wilderness Oxide. I also stamped the small trees from CMS427 with the same color and then again slightly above/beside with Speckled egg Oxide. I also used my splatbrush and white paint, for some “snow”.

I also stamped the small hollies from CMS427, with Archival Jet black. Then I colored the hollies with Distress ink’s. I used Distress Stickles glitter for the berries. I stamped the text from CMS416 Snarky cats Christmas with embossing ink and used black embossing powder. I then diecut the background with Stacked postage die from Sizzix, 662696. 

For the second background I used a piece I have made before, I think I used Black soot and Stormy sky Distress ink and Oxide on watercolor paper. I used the postage die for this one as well. I used the stamp CMS424 Tiny text Christmas with gold embossing powder. It is difficult to se on the photo but the text says “jingle all the way”.

The cat is from CMS416 Snarky cat Christmas, and I have colored it with Distress inks. 

The cat is mounted to the background with 3D adhesive. 

I mounted the card on two more backgrounds, one from cardboard which I have inked the edges on with Walnut stain Distress ink. The next one was from sanded, metallic Kraft cardstock which I inked the edges on with Ground espresso Distress ink. Finally I made a card base from sanded colored Kraft cardstock. 

I decorated the card with a string and two Ideaology Tiny bells. 

I will try this card in Simon says stamp - Monday challenge - Happy holidays.

Thank you for visiting my blog, 

Take care, stay safe.

/ Susanne