Sizzix Bird Crazy & Crazy Cat Anniversary Card

Hello! I’m happy you’re here!

Today’s crafting whim is back to papercrafting with this sweet anniversary card:

Aren’t they just the cutest couple?!!  I got the idea to make this sweet lady cat all dolled up from a post by Christi over at Art-Without-Anxiety — she put her cat in a Hero Arts Dress a while ago and it was DARLING! (ENABLER ALERT: In addition to great ideas, Christi has AMAZING giveaways on her blog — Art Without Anxiety! Click HERE to go to her blog and follow her. Check the end of this post to see  the fabulous box chocked full of crafty goodies she sent me, including the dress I used on my cat in this card!!… THANK YOU, Christi!!)

I popped up the beak and eyes (and made them shine with Glossy Accents) and added in some tulle (on her hat) and pearls for some 3d effects (like her ring and earring).

I like how the white pen adds some extra detail. The wing was scored and popped up, too. I like the lace embossing folder (new to me!) and lace edges for the background. The embossing stands out just a smidge more when you run Versamark over it.

I got excited about sending this card and filled out the inside before I remembered to take a picture. LOL!… here’s the inside lower right corner stamped with the mini versions, which are in reverse…

I think it’s sweet how he’s giving her a quick peck on the cheek!

Materials used:

• Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Bird Crazy, Crazy Cats,Crazy Talk, Mini Bird Crazy and Mini Crazy Cats stamp sets
• Sizzix Tim Holtz Bird Crazy and Crazy Cats die sets
• Sizzix Tim Holtz Lace Texture Fades Embossing Folder (new to me)
• Hero Arts MMH April 2017 Dress (new to me)
• Tsukineko Memento dye inks – Tuxedo Black & London Fog
• Tsukineko Versamark ink
• Stampendous PEARLustre embossing powder – tanzanite
• Copic Markers: C1, 5; BG13, 15; R22; RV02, Y13, 15; YG61; YR02, 04; V4,9,15,25
• Sakura Gelly Roll pen – white 08
• Ranger Inkssentials Glossy Accents
• Core’dinatoins Cardstock: green, purple, white
• Aleene’s Original Tacky Glue
• Scotch adhesive runner & adhesive dots
• Misc. Lace, faux pearls, tulle and vellum.

I’m playing along with the following challenges – click on any one for more information on how you can join the fun:

• Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – Something New
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Something New
• Simon Says Stamp Work-It-Wednesday December 2017 – New to You
• Repeat Impressions DCC#13 – Things With Wings
• CropStop Challenge Linky Party #36 – Anything Goes (Aleene’s Core’dinatons, Inkssentials, Ranger, Scotch, Sizzix, Tim Holtz, Tsukineko

~D.Ann

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Don’t forget you might want to click HERE to go to her Christi’s blog and follow her. You’ll get some great crafting ideas and be able to watch for a chance to enter one of her fab giveaways. Just sayin’! : )

Sizzix Stephanie Barnard Flip-Its Friendship Card with Tim Holtz Crazy Cats

Hello, again! I’ve been playing just a little with some paper crafts during my recuperation. Today I have a cute little friendship Flip-Its card for you:

Of course, it’s cuter in action, so here’s a link to a quick video (HERE):

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And some close-ups

 

  

These Flip-It’s cards are SO FUN and so EASY to make!!

Materials used:

• Sizzix Tripple Playful Flip-Its dies by Stephanie Barnard
• Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Crazy Cats & Crazy Talk
• Sizzix Tim Holtz Crazy Cats Dies
• Sizzix Little Sizzles paper pack – earth tones
• Core’dinations cardstock – purple and white
• Copic Markers B21; C1,3,5,7; R20; W1,3,5; Y13; YG63; YR21,24
• Pigma Micron Archival Ink pens: 005 green & 05 Brown
• Tombow Dual Brush Pen 533
• Ranger Inkssentials Glossy Accents
• Faber Castell Textuer Gems pearl
• iCraft Therm-o-Web sticky dot runner & sticky tape runner adhesives

I’m entering this in the Stephanie Barnard Flip-Its Sizzix Maker Challenge. Click on it for more information on how you can join the fun!

I’m also joining the fun at the CropStop July Linky Party #30 (Coredinations, Pigma, Ranger, Sizzix).

Thank you for stopping by today!

~D.Ann

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Cat Lovers Hop – Final Day – You’re Special Crazy Cat Card + Blog Candy

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 Goes  oops.. 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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• ***** Edited to add: giveaway now closed*****

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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Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop Bookmark & MISTI

Hello and welcome! Today is the first day of the Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.

In last Winter’s hop there were over 600 projects linked up. This time there are over 50 Super Sponsors offering some terrific prizes, so come join the fun!

I’m starting out with a crazy bookmark:

You may remember THIS POST, where I did some watercolor painting with Glimmer Mists and made some mosaic tiles from eggshells…

When I was done, I took a manila tag and sopped up the leftover ink and had a pretty SPRING GREEN background waiting to be stamped and embellished. I then took my favorite tool – the MISTI (Most Incredible Stamp Tool Invented) and went to work.

I love the MISTI because you can lay out your stamps and embellishments exactly where you want them, then close the lid and it picks up the stamp so you can ink it and put it right back down and stamp exactly where you wanted it.

Another reason I love the MISTI is when you don’t get a clean impression the first time ’round – you just re-stamp until you’re satisfied. I can’t tell you how many projects got this far before I had my MISTI and I’d try my best to align the stamp, but it would be off, giving me a double impression and making me have to start over. That was SO frustrating! But NO more!!

 

It’s also great for mass-producing cards and getting perfect images on every one. (If you don’t have one yet, you might want to check out SoSuzyStamps – she’s even giving away a Mini Misti on her blog! (She’s also one of our Super Sponsors, thanks!))

Here’s a close-up of this crazy cat and you can see a bit of the shimmer on the tag. So is the feather her super cape? Did she down ALL those cups of coffee and then try to catch the family bird? That feather between her toes IS rather suspicious! I love that adorable stack of cups from STAMPlorations- Another of our Super Sponsors – thanks! That much coffee would also explain why her eyes are bugging out. lol!

The coffee ‘beans’ were a thick application of Liquid Pearls. Before they were dry I just ran a fingernail down the center.

Materials used:

• STAMPlorations COFFEE HAPPY stamp set
• Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Crazy Cats stamp set
• Sizzix Framelits Tim Holtz Crazy Cats dies
• Darice embossing stencil Cat (paw print)
• MISTI stamping tool
• Ranger Inkssentials Craft Tags – Manila #5 size
• Neenah Astroparche cardstock
• Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists: Crushed Shells, Fairway, Forest Green, Gold, and Mustard Seed
• Tim Holtz Idea-ology tissue tape – butterflies
• Copic Markers: E13, 23, 33, 74, 79; R32; RV04; Y13; YG17
• Pigma Micron pen 01 black
• Ranger Inkssentials Glossy Accents
• Ranger Liquid Pearls – dark chocolate
• Art-C molding paste – black
• Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink – Gathered Twigs
• Kuretake Zig Wink of Luna – Gold & Green
• Kuretake Zig Wink of Stella – clear
• Aleene’s Tacky Glue
• Misc. feathers and ribbon

Goodness… the list is longer than the tag itself! Haha! Or, ask the Brazilians say: ‘kkk!’ Which is an onomatopoeia for a little snicker sound… try it! Kkk!!

Onomatopoeia – ˌä-nə-ˌmä-tə-ˈpē-ə – the formation of a word from the vocal imitation of the sound associated with it. Like buzz or hiss.

I’m playing along in the following hops and challenges, in case you’d like to join the fun, just click on the name for the link:

• Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop
• Time to Celebrate #WeLoveMisti at SoSuzyStamps
• STAMPlorations March challenge theme: Stamps and Texture

• STAMPlorations March mixed-media challenge (paw print is stencilled)

• Simon Says Stamp Wdenesday Challenge: Cute & Cuddly (even Crazy cats are cute & need cuddling!)
• DL.Art March Linky Challenge (Another Super Sponsor of the hop – thanks!)
• A Colorful Journey – Let’s Play!
• CropStop Linky Party #14

I’m so glad you could stop by today. I hope to be able to get at lease one post a day during this hop if my health permits, so I hope to see you back real soon!

Have a wonderful day!!

-D.Ann

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