* Cat Lovers Hop: Cat and Bird

Hello!

Have you heard? 

It's the Cat Lovers Hop hosted by Janis at Her Peaceful Garden.

This year is the fifth hop and it's a crazy week filled with crafting, commenting and celebrating cats of all sizes. There are fabulous sponsors and prizes to be won, but best of all, friendships to be forged with like minded cat lovers from around the world. Why don't you come and join us?

Here is my first card:

I used a fabulous red rubber stamp from Lost Coast Designs called Cat and Bird.

I began by making the background. I used Distress Oxides and used the smoosh, dab, dry technique on each colour before adding the next. I used Vintage Photo, Spiced Pumpkin, Fossilised Amber and Fired Brick to give a fiery autumnal backdrop. I stamped some flower heads (from Antique Botanicals by Rubber Dance) into the background in Fired Brick and Vintage Photo. When this was dry I stamped the Cat and Bird directly onto the background and again onto white card. The Cat and Bird were fussy cut, ready to be adhered over the stamped image.

I decided to add some foliage around the edges of the background and settled on some Inkylicious stamps, using Daisy Fields around the base and Tumbling Vines for the top section. I finished the background by inking all around the edges in black archival ink.

The background was matted onto white card and then onto black card, then it was popped on a 6 x 6 inch card base.

That's all for now!
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Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

I'd like to play along in the following challenges: 

* 2 Crafty Critter Crazies #31 25/10 (#3)
* Sweet Stampin Feature A Creature 25/10
* Crafty Animals #31 27/10
* My Time To Craft #408 Halloween or Cats 30/10
* Lost Coast Portal #86 Pets 31/10
* Animal Friends Cat 31/10
* Dare 2B Artzy Cute Animals 02/11
* Lil Patch of CraftyFriends #116 AG 02/11
* Ikesworld Challenge #125 J is for Jaffa (Colour Challenge) 04/11
* SUYP #47 AG 04/11

I'd really love some feedback :)      

I read and appreciate all your comments.