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
Okay, this is too much fun!! Love your take on the sketch, Fran the fish bones are perfect. WWCD!!
ReplyDeleteThis is just a funny and an amazing card! Love absolutely everything about it!!
ReplyDeleteYou had me at the embossed fish bones, Fran! Absolutely fun and fabulous card. Thanks for playing along with us at FMS this week.
ReplyDeleteOMG I love this - snarky and fun! Cats and fish bones! Just perfect! Glad you joined us at FMS!
ReplyDeleteWhat a super fun card and clever take on the sketch! This crazy cat makes me smile and I love those fish bones. Thanks so much for joining us at freshly Made Sketches this week.
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