Christmas Cats In Memory of Janis

 

Hello

At last, it's here .... the Cat Lovers Christmas Challenge, organised by Jo at the Christmas Kickstart Challenge. 

Each October for the past 8 years, our dear friend Janis Woolbright of Her Peaceful Garden blog, held a week-long Cat Lovers Hop. This week was always eagerly anticipated by kitty loving crafters world-wide and Janis made it a very special week of fun where new friendships were forged. Sadly, Janis passed away in January this year.

Jo consulted with Janis's son and they agreed upon this one -off challenge to honour and remember this truly remarkable lady.

The challenge is running until the last day of October. You can enter up to 6 cards. 

There's a whole host of generous sponsors. Winners will be chosen at random, but you have to be in it to win it, so link up your Christmas kitty cards, leave some comments or just display the above badge on your blog and other social media to be in with a chance of winning. Oh, and don't forget to sign up in the comments section of Day 1.

Jo has some helpers to showcase the companies sponsoring the challenge, so there will be plenty of eye candy and inspiration.

Head over to the Christmas Kickstart Challenge blog and take a look.

The link up page for Christmas Cat cards is here.

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Today is my day to share some cards made with stamps from one of the sponsors - Inkylicious.

At last year's Cat Lovers Hop I was lucky to win a mini pack from Inkylicious, a family run stamp company in the UK. I used the stamp set, Christmas Cats on a Branch, that I won along with a few other Inkylicious stamps to makes some cards:

I use torn paper to make the horizon and the snow hills, inking lightly with grey inks and adding glitter pen at the end. The moon was created with the Moonscape Stamp and Stencil. The twiggy branches around the card comes from the branches in the Winter Birds stamp set. I also used Bare Branches and embossed in white:. You might just see some pine trees in the distance, for this I used an old, discontinued, twinchie pine tree stamp.

Here's a close up of the Christmas cats eagerly awaiting Santa Paws:

I'd like to play in the following challenges:

Crazy for Cats #12 AG 27/10

Most Magical Time of the Year #13 28/10

Aud Sentiments Challenge #306 Ink Blending 28/10

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #79 Christmas Cats 31/10

We Love Stamping Oct AG 01/11

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This is a similar, but more simplistic card:

The Christmas Cats on a Branch are the focal point and Bare Branches was used as a filler stamp and embossed in white.

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On this card I used the Santa and sleigh from Christmas Cats on a Branch

I used one of the Curious Cats and the tip of the Rye Grass stamp for scrub vegetation. I also used the Sun/Moon stencils on this one.

I'd like to play in the following challenges:

* The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge #149 AG 15/10

* Critter Crazy #79 Critter 24/10 DT Favourite

Crafty Animals #77 AG 26/10

SUYP #93 Furrything Goes 31/10 Winner

That's all for now.

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo