Holly Cat

 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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For today's cat card I used a Stampendous stamp designed by Laurel Burch called Holly Cat. I won this stamp in the 2018 Cat Lovers Hop and treasure it, as I once had a sweet kitty cat called Holly who lived with us for 18 glorious years.

Here is my card - it's a little bit green :)

I stamped the image with Momento ink and coloured with Copic markers. I fussy cut it and placed it onto a brayered acrylic paint background.  I embossed a larger background, inking the inside of the folder with Versamark so that I could add gold embossing powder. It is such a long time since I did this technique that I inked the wrong side of the folder. Nevertheless, I added embossing powder and heated it - I like how it turned out. I swiped the edges of my backgrounds through the Versafine and added further gold embossing powders. The sentiment is also stamped and heat embossed.

Here is a close up photo:

 

I'd like to play in the following challenges:

* Critter Crazy #79 Critter 24/10

* CYHTP AG with Embossing Folder 25/10

Crafty Animals #77 AG 26/10

Crazy for Cats #12 AG 27/10

Most Magical Time of the Year #13 28/10

Gail's Tic-Tac-Toe at Christmas Kickstart Challenge 30/10

Playing the bottom row: Embossing/Gold/Stamping

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #79 Christmas Cats 31/10

* SUYP #93 Furrything Goes 31/10

Lost Coast Portal to Creativity #176 Cats 31/10

We Love Stamping Oct AG 01/11

That's all for now.

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo