PURRFECT HALLOWEEN

Mid July and time for our Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge mid-month reminder! I started out with good intentions to use the current July mood board for inspiration. I thought to use the lower right quadrant - black cat with red, white & blue ruff (Doesn't 'ruff' sound like a canine word?)! 

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge: July 2023 Mid Month Reminder

But after over-working my idea about using the Tim Holtz Halloween cats stamp and trying to apply collars and bowties, I finally just gave up and opted for "cute".

I stamped the three cats with black ink on gray cardstock and decided to die cut them into a tag. I wanted their eyes to show up, so I hand cut the openings and backed the tag with a scrap of sparkly green paper. The green sparkle doesn't show up in my photo. I white heat embossed the sentiment over the black cats and attached the gray tag to a second tag cut from green and black cat paper. I attached them with a bright green satin ribbon and glued them to a card I had prepared with a couple of mats in black, gray, and white printed papers. 

So, that's my "Anything Halloween" card for mid-July. You still have about 2 weeks to finish up your cards and share them with us.  

And speaking of purrfect: Earlier this week I received a package of used wine barrel hoops from Etsy that I had ordered to augment my existing 3 hoops (my plan is to use all of them as steppingstones in my garden) and they arrived in a box with kraft packing paper. I decided to leave the box and packing material for the cats to play with and the first one in was this cutie, Tiger.