I’m so glad you could stop by today for the final day of the Cat Lovers Hop!
And what a hop it’s been! With over 130 talented entries already, who knows how many we’ll have before the day is done?!! I’ve had cat loving visitors from 15 countries stop by!
Who knew that National Chocolate day is October 28 and National Cat day is October 29?! (International Cat day is August 8). Isn’t it crazy how they seem to have a “day” for everything?!! I think EVERY day should be chocolate and cat days!!!
If you’ve been following my posts this week, then you know that I’ve been interviewing famous cats. I sent out many more requests, but not all of our beloved felines deigned to reply. The one I really missed was Tarder Sauce aka “Grumpy Cat” as I had a cat colored like her and some blog candy, too. What was I thinking?!! We all know her most popular MEMEs:
But I’d rather not impute motives… who knows what she’s been going through at the time I wrote? Maybe she’s even had way too many PAWparazzi chasing her lately. So I went ahead and used the image I colored in her honor and put together a fun card in fall colors:
And the inside shows what the little PAWparazzo was up to…
Didja notice my inspired ball of yarn exclamation point?! I’ll fess up as to why it’s inspired… I had masked off the rest of the sentiment while inking it up… then forgot to take off the mask. DUH! It left a smudge that needed covering. THAT’s when the ball of yarn exclamation point idea came up. Too bad the smaller ball wouldn’t cover up the smudge as it’d’ve made the perfect exclamation point! (Note to self… remember for next time!)
There’s a better view of that fantastic metallic creative medium on the left and the Perlen ‘milk’. I used a rounded flower tool to round the eyes before adding glossy accents. They look really cool IRL.
Supplies used:
- Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz stamp sets: Crazy Cats, Mini Cats & Dogs, and Crazy Talk
- Sizzix Tim Holtz Framelits dies: Crazy Cats and Mini Cats & Dogs
- Ranger Dylusions Raining Cats small stencil
- Memento Tuxedo Black dye ink
- Imagine Crafts Creative Medium Metallic Copper
- Copic Markers
- Large Cat: B21; E00, 11, 31, 33, 74, 79; RV02; W1,3,5
- Small Cat: YR02, 04, 21, 24; W1
- Sakura Pigma Micron 005 black pen
- Sharpie white paint pen
- Viva Decor Perlen-pen
- Ranger Inkssentials Glossy Accents
- Silly Winks sticky back foam
- The Paper Studio – Spare Parts camera charm
- Core’dinations cardstock: black and white
- Misc. card base
- Various adhesives
- Dollar store medical tape (I use this to hold my dies in place, but I liked the look of it over the milk bottle, so cut it to fit before putting Glossy Accents over it)
I’m entering this card in the following hops and challenges – you can click on any one of them for more information in case you’d care to join the fun:
- Cat Lovers Hop
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goesoops.. the limit is 5- Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Autumn (5th and final)
- Crop Stop Linky Party #21 Anything Goes (Crop Stop carries: Core’dinations, Dylusions, Memento, Pigma Micron, Ranger Glossy Accents, and Sizzix brands) 4th entry(only one left!)
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Now it’s time for my final blog candy for this hop, open internationally:
There is a Design Works 5×7 Cross Stitch kit, a set of 4 Grumpy Cat buttons (my favorite says “I’m on a button? I hate buttons!” lol!) and some kitty sticky note page markers.
If you would like to be in the running to win this blog candy, pay close attention to the rules: Leave ONE comment on this post before 11:59 pm Pacific, Sunday Oct. 30, 2016, using the word PAWparazzo somewhere in your comment. If you don’t have the word PAWparazzo in your comment, I’ll assume you’re not interested in the blog candy (and won’t be offended!). Also, if you are (or become) a follower of this blog, you may make a SECOND comment telling me so for an additional entry. You may also receive an ADDITIONAL entry by becoming a follower of my PINTEREST account, @dannscrafting , come back here and leave comment with your Pinterest user name. Duplicate comments will be deleted. There you have it… you may have up to three chances to win.
FYI: This particular giveaway IS open to International peeps, too.
On October 31, 2016, I will use Mr. Random org to draw a winner from the comments that qualify and will try to announce it here on the blog some time before noon EASTERN time. Please come back and check to see if you’re the winner. The winner will have 72 hours to contact me with their snail-mail address or another winner will be chosen.
It’s been a fast and FURRYous week of activity! I hope you’ve enjoyed the hop, I certainly have! Thank you all SO VERY MUCH for stopping by and for all the kind, encouraging and entertaining comments you left – they are much appreciated!!
I have one more project, but if I don’t get it done today, I’ll save it for next hop! : )
See you ’round blog-land my fur-loving friends! Don’t forget to stop back in the afternoon on October 31 to see if you won any blog candy!
~D.Ann
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