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You know how sometimes an idea just pops into your head and it all flows easily from there? That's what I experienced with this card, inspired by Cécile's sketch at Freshly Made Sketches #524. Last night, as I was dropping off to sleep, I was thinking about the sketch and how I could utilize one of Tim Holtz's Snarky Cats because I'm taken by the shape of the fish bones, which I thought would be a perfect image for the corners of the rectangular shape. I awoke remembering my idea and knocked this out in about an hour.

I started this little guy with a gray cardstock rectangle that I stamped him on with black ink. Then I colored him with Prismacolor pencils and white gel pen and masked him off to use a stencil with Hero Arts "Wet Cement" ink for a background rectangle. After this all dried, I heat embossed Tim Holtz's fish bones and the sentiment with white embossing powder. My final step before matting the front with black and gluing it to the face of a white side-folded card, was to add some white threads to the tail of one of the bones to give the impression that this is really a naughty cat! My kitties cannot be trusted with any spools of thread left un-attended, so the tangled background stencil and threads are straight out of their bag of tricks! I have a good friend who is a real cat lover and she's getting this card.

Freshly Made Sketches: Freshly Made Sketches #524 - A Sketch by Cécile