* Cat Lovers Hop: Victorian Cat Humour

 

Hello

If you are looking for my 

Gecko Galz Blog Hop post

 and free digital collage sheet

 it is HERE - have fun!

Welcome to the Cat Lovers Hop 2022.

Another big hello to all my furry, feline-loving friends!

The Cat Lovers Hop, for those that don't know, is a fantastic annual event, hosted by the lovely Janis over on her blog, Her Peaceful Garden. 

This is its eighth year and an awful lot of work goes into its planning and preparation. The community of cat loving crafters is one of the best I have come across and I look forward to this event all year long.

If you like cats pop over and have a look at the fun games and awesome prizes that Janis has organised for the next few days. 

You'll find the link up and all the beautiful projects here. 

If you enter, make sure you sign up here to be eligible for prizes.

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I have made a separate post just for the Cat Lover's Hop, using my mixed media  Gecko Galz Blog Hop projects. My free collage sheet in the Blog Hop is a kitty cat one, so please follow the link at the top of this page to collect it.

I made 4 snarky, dressed Victorian cat panels which will most likely go into a journal:

I fussy cut the cat images and inked around the cut edges. 

I made Oxide blended backgrounds and added a burst mica sprays and some white paint splatters. I stamped in tone on tone inks and in black around the edges of each background using AALL & Create background stamps. The sentiments are Tim Holtz Snarky stickers.

That's all for now.

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo 

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

* Pammies Inky Pinkies #2243 AG 30/10 Honourable Mention

* SUYP Challenge #82 AG Cats 31/10

* Worldwide Open DT Challenge #10 AG 2/3 11/11

* Crazy for Cats Challenges #1 AG Cats 25/11 2/5  

* Pennys Challenges #533 AG 08/11

* TTCRD AG 08/11

* Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers GDT: Distracted and Unsympathetic - Monochrome

 

Hello!

I would firstly like to welcome 

Janet Santolini, 

Christopher Lopez 

Mary Jordon and

Nancy Iverson

Thank you so much for becoming followers of my little blog!

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I am delighted to be a guest designer at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers. 

I recently had the honour of being crowned Queen of Snark - this is such a huge privilege!

The new challenge starts today and the theme is M is for Monochromatic. 

Here is the card I made:

I love this quirky woman. She is from a PaperArtsy stamp designed by Lynn Perrella 

#LPC 049. 

I stamped her with Twilight Versafine Claire, masked her and inked the background using a stencil and stamps from AALL & Create (stencil #113, stamps #294, #375 and #385). I used  various Distress Oxides in shades of blue and embossed with Distress Glaze in Speckled Egg.

The sentiment is a snarky, Big Talk sticker from the Tim Holtz collection.

Here she is in close up. Despite her snarky sentiment, I think this quirky lady is very elegant and quite how she came to have birdies in her hands and on her head is pure serendipity.

Thank you to the Sisters for inviting me to be a guest on their blog. If you have time, please consider joining the M is for Monochromatic Challenge, or just pop over to see the amazing samples of work made by the DT and the challenge entrants.

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers

M is for Monochromatic Challenge

That's all for now.

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

* Penny's Challenges #494 AG 27/04

* A Perfect Time To Craft AG 28/04

Daisy Chain Challenge #51 Monochrome

* A Place to Start #4 AG/Elegant 30/04

* Taylormadecards4u April Serendipity 30/04

* Lost Coast Portal to Creativity #120 Sentimentally Yours 30/04

The sentiment is not stamped, so please delete if this is disqualified :) 

* World Wide Open Design Team Challenge AG 12/05

* Creative Crafters #39 AG 08/05