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Pink Cat - More Sneak Peeks

  I'm running late today with my Pink Cat sneak peeks.  I wish I owned this Inkadinkado stamp... if I did I'd be stamping it all over my walls!  I hope no one is getting cyber-germs from me!

My first sneak peek card for today shows you again how versatile the new Christmas Kitty stamp set is!  I can use this stamp as is for a great "best wishes" card, or I could add the Santa hat that's included with the set to Pink Cat's head and make it a Christmas greeting!  This stamp, used without the hat is one of my favorite of the set!  I am sure I'm going to use it with this sentiment a lot!

My second card illustrates just what cats do best, especially at Christmas-time... get into mischief!  Is there anyone who owns a cat that doesn't get in the tree?

With this card, I made a rick-rack border using the new scalloped border punch from Stampin' Up!  (Yeah Anita... you're not getting that back!)  I don't know whose blog I saw that rick-rack done on, but I love it!  You're going to see that often (as long as I can keep Anita from taking her punch back home!)

All the Pink Cat girls have created cards today using these same stamps, so please take a moment to check out their cards, too!  Tomorrow is the new release day and I'll have one more card to share with you as well as a picture of the entire set.  Remember, you have until 5:00 EST today to enter the drawing to win this set.  Just go to www.pinkcatstudio.blogspot.com to enter to win!  Good luck!

Thanks for stopping by!  Remember tomorrow is Color Throwdown day, too!

Fishy card
Stamps:  Christmas Kitty (Pink Cat Studio)
Cardtock:  Summer Sunrise (Papertrey Ink), Cool Caribbean, Taken with Teal (Stampin' Up!), white (Gary Burlin)
Inks:  Adirondack Pitch Black (Ranger), Versafine Onyx Black (Tsukineko), markers (Copic)
Accessories:  scalloped border punch (Stampin' Up!), ribbon (May Arts).

Christmas Tree
Stamps:  Christmas Kitty (Pink Cat Studio
Cardstock:  Always Artichoke, Soft Sky, Very Vanilla (Stampin' Up!), designer paper (Basic Grey)
Inks:  Adirondack Pitch Black (Ranger), Colorbox Maroon chalk ink (Clearsnap), markers (Copic)
Accessories:  scalloped border punch (Stampin' Up!), faux suede ribbon (May Arts), Nestabilities (Spellbinders).

Pink Cat Studio - New Release Sneak Peeks!

On Wednesday, September 10th, Pink Cat Studio will be releasing a new set of stamps called Christmas Kitty!  With these stamps, Pink Cat is ready to celebrate the upcoming holiday, but is sometimes getting into some mischief (as you will see tomorrow!)  If you'd like a chance to win these stamps, please stop by the Pink Cat blog before 5:00 p.m. EST tomorrow to enter! 

For today's sneak peeks, the team members are showing you two of the images available with this set.  The first is the Angel Kitty here on my card.  Isn't she sweet?  I wanted to take advantage of this new Stampin' Up! Pink Pirouette ribbon that I got from my friend Anita, so I decided to dress Pink Cat in a pink angel gown, and make a pastel Christmas card with this designer paper from Paper Salon!  It's hard to tell from the picture but her wings are accented with my silver and clear Copic Spica glitter pens (yes, I found them!) and her horn and halo are accented with the gold.  The sentiment and tiny snowflake stamp are also from this new stamp set.

 

My second item for today shows you just how versatile this set is!  Pink Cat is shown here playing in the gift boxes and ribbon, but the nice thing is she doesn't necessarily have to be Christmas-themed!  This stamp set comes with a cute Santa hat that can be perched on top her head for Christmas cards, or for an all-occasion card you can just use the stamp as I have here!  (And tomorrow, I'll show you another fun stamp from the set that works this way, too!)  For today, I decided to use the One Sheet box template from the 3-D Design Challenge blog!  I've never tried one of these before, and was really surprised to find it super-easy to do!  (That's a bonus when you feel as lousy as I do the last few days!)  Now that I've tried it and see how easy it is, I'll definitely keep this in mind for quick gift needs.  Plus my wheels are spinning on all the cool ways you can embellish and accent this, too!

The Pink Cat design team has been hard at work using these new stamps, so please pay a visit to their blogs too for more great designs!  You can find them all linked in my right-hand sidebar!

Thanks to everyone for the get well wishes in recent comments!  My head feels like it's dead weight but since I have the next 2 days off work, I'm hoping I can get lots of extra rest and stamping time!  And yes, I'm drinking lots of fluids! 

Don't forget that the Blog Candy I offered for Sharon's Stamp Simply Celebration is still active!  You have until Thursday evening at 9:00 p.m. EST to get entered!  Check this post for all the details, and also be sure to stop by Sharon's blog each day for other fun goodies to win!

Have a great day, and happy stamping!

 

Joy card
Stamps:  Christmas Kitty (Pink Cat Studio)
Cardstock:  Baja Breeze, Pink Pirouette, Cranberry Crisp (Stampin' Up!), white (Gary Burlin), designer paper (Paper Salon)
Inks:  Adirondack Pitch Black (Ranger), Versamark (Tsukineko), Cranberry Crisp (Stampin' Up!), markers (Copic)
Accessories:  Nestabilities (Spellbinders), ribbon (Stampin' Up!), Spica glitter pens (Copic).

One Sheet box
Stamps:  Christmas Kitty, sentiment from BirthdayPlate #1 (Pink Cat Studio)
Cardstock:  Parakeet (Bazzill), white (Gary Burlin), designer paper (We R Memory Keepers)
Inks:  Adirondack Pitch Black (Ranger), Colorbox Scarlet pigment (Clearsnap), markers (Copic)
Accessories:  scalloped border punch, red brads (Stampin' Up!), Nestabilities (Spellbinders), red grosgrain (Gary Burlin).

Falling Leaves

Greetings!  It's been a few days since I did any stamping or blogging, so I had to get back in the swing of things today with this card.  (Some much needed devotion to family and home was needed in the last few days, so I've been on a little stamping hiatus!)

This card combines 2 challenges... the Pink Cat Studio design team was challenged today to make a Fall-themed card.  And on Splitcoast, the color challenge today was to use Kraft, Black and Rose Red.  So even though those aren't very "fall-ish" colors, I tried to make them work!  I must say, it's a very elegant color combination (even if my card isn't) and I would never have thought to use them together.  If you'd like to play along with the Pink Cat girls today with this challenge, simply pull out your Pink Cat stamps and make a fall-themed card!  Email a picture of your creation to Melissa at pinkcatstudio@gmail.com so she can include your card in the gallery!  And leave me a comment here with a link to your card so I can see it right away!  I hope you have time to play!

Stayed tuned for one more little creation that I did manage to create late last night!  My daughter needed a quick volleyball secret-sister gift!

Thanks for stopping by, and for sticking with me during my little stamping/blogging break this weekend!

Stamps:  Limitless Limbs, sentiment from Lily & Tweet (Pink Cat Studio)
Cardstock:  Kraft, Rose Red, designer paper (Stampin' Up!), black OP (Bazzill)
Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black (Tsukineko), Rose Red pigment (Stampin' Up!)
Accessories:  black brads (Stampin' Up!), ribbon (Creative Impressions), Nestabilities (Spellbinders)

Look! Cupcakes DO grow on trees!

Yeah, we can eat all we want 'cause cupcakes now grow on trees!  If only money really did, too!  :(

This card is a triple whammy today!  I made this for... Taylor's Cupcake Challenge #28, the Our Creative Corner challenge, and I used a very neglected and old Cuttlebug folder for Sharon's Stamp Simply challenge that I didn't get done yesterday!  Ta dah!

Since the OCC challenge specified no designer paper (*gasp!*) I decided to find some patterned ribbon for color inspiration and decided to go with this American Crafts ribbon since the colors would make yummy-looking cupcakes, too!  The cupcakes on my tree are all accented with Stickles, too.  I went looking for a Cuttlebug folder to use since again, no designer paper (*gasp!*) and I found this old folder that I haven't used in eons, so I decided to use it for Sharon's Stamp Simply challenge to use something old.  And of course, the layout/sketch and use of cupcakes are for Taylor's challenge!  I also got to use a small piece of Kiwi Kiss cardstock since my BFF Anita shared several pieces of the new Stampin' Up! In Colors with me!

I've got some other great projects and cards I worked on today too, but one needs to be photographed in better light, and one needs to get finished up tomorrow!  Stay tuned!

 

 

Stamps:  Limitless Limbs, birthday/circle sentiment from Party Farm Animals (Pink Cat Studio); Cardstock:  Kiwi Kiss, Regal Rose, Bashful Blue, Lavender Lace (Stampin' Up!) Cryogen white shimmer cardstock (The Paper Cut); Inks:  Versafine Onyx Black (Tsukineko), markers (Stampin' Up!); Accessories:  ribbon slider die, Bloom Dots embossing folder, Just My Type and Frills embossing borders (Cuttlebug by ProvoCraft), ribbon (American Crafts), Stickles (Ranger).

Stamp Simply - not today!

Just a reminder that the Stamp Simply challenge goes on today as usual, but I didn't get a sample made this week.  It's been crazy this week, and I never got time to make anything but Sharon has a beautiful sample on her blog with the challenge details, and the other team members have great samples for inspiration, too!  Be sure to check them out, and maybe I'll get the challenge done later tonight or this weekend!

I took a stamping break last night and just spent the evening in front of the TV with my family.  We've gotten hooked lately on watching ER reruns that are broadcast on TNT everyday, so we were watching it on the DVR last night. 

So today I'm sharing with you this card that I made a few weeks ago for Taylor's Dare to Get Dirty challenge over on SCS.  Her challenge was to make a card with cupcakes, and then I also used her cupcake sketch from her blog.

Have a great Friday!  I'm of to work in an hour, and hoping a package I've been expecting is waiting at the post office!  I also got a package yesterday from JustRite stampers, which I'm going to demo for customers on Tuesday at the store, plus I got new stamps yesterday from My Favorite Things so I'm really excited to have a day of getting inky today!

 

Stamps:  Party Farm Animals (Pink Cat Studio); Cardstock:  Teal OP, Red Hot OP, Parakeet (Bazzill), white (Gary Burlin), designer paper (We R Memory Keepers); Inks:  Adirondack Pitch Black (Ranger), Colorbox Scarlet pigment (Clearsnap), markers (Copic); Accessories:  ribbon slider Nestabilities die (Spellbinders), 1/2" circle punch, red brads (Stampin' Up!), ribbon (craft supply).

Pink Cat Studio New Releases!

Today's the BIG Day!Head on over to Pink Cat Studio to get your Limitless Limbs stamp set, and the Lily & Billy Accessories set shown here! You will get SO much use out of these stamps! I'm already thinking ahead to my Little Tee's stamp set that's on it's way from Gina K Designs, and thinking about how cute some of these stamps will look on the t-shirts in Melanie's stamp set, too! Believe me, along with dressing Lily and Billy, and creating "Limitless" trees, you'll find a million and one more places you can use these stamps!

Here's one more card I created this week with my Limitless Limbs set! I've had this plaid, cherry-printed ribbon forever and FINALLY got an excuse to use it by making this cute cherry tree!

I stamped my tree with Versafine Onyx Black ink on this new cardstock I got recently at the store. It's called Cryogen White from The Paper Cut, and it's got just a hint of shimmer to it. Unfortunately, I'm not a better photographer so it doesn't show! My leaves were stamped with Brilliance Pearlescent Thyme, and the cherries were stamped and colored with my Copic markers. The pot for the tree was stamped and colored with Copic marker, then cut out and glued at the base of the tree.

I used a new Cuttlebug embossing border across the bottom of my card to finish off the design!

Have fun, and happy stamping! Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Limitless Limbs (Pink Cat Studio); Cardstock:� Berry Sorbet Smoothies, Black OP (Bazzill); Inks: Versafine Onyx Black, Brilliance Pearlescent Thyme (Tsukineko), Adirondack Pitch Black (Ranger), markers (Copic); Accessories: scalloped rectangle Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Cuttlebug Frills embossing border (ProvoCraft), ribbon (craft supply).

Pink Cat Sneak Peeks, day 3

Today brings another day of sneak peeks for the latest releases from Pink Cat Studio!  I chose to do another card to show you more options with the Lily & Billy Accessories set!  Now even though these stamps are ideal for both Lily and Billy, you know I'm just partial to girls since the only boy in my house is my husband!  So I used my Lily stamps again today, and this time her kitty has joined her in catching some butterflies!

For this card, I chose to try something new for me... I stamped and decorated the inside of the card, too!  Anytime I make a card and show it to someone, the first thing they do is open it!  I have never been one to stamp the inside, so that always makes me crazy!  But I've seen a few inspirational samples around the net lately with the insides stamped so I decided to start trying to incorporate that into my cards for a more finished look!

Be ready with your pocketbook tomorrow to order these and the new Limitles Limbs stamps!  I'll have a new card to show you using Limitless Limbs, and also images of all the new stamps!

For more designs from the Pink Cat Team, check out the blog!

Stamps:  Lily & Billy Accessories, sentiment from Lily & Tweet (Pink Cat Studio); Cardstock:  light blue (Archiver's), Pink Passion (Stampin' Up!), Parakeet (Bazzill), white (Gary Burlin), designer paper (Autumn Leaves); Inks:  Adirondack Pitch Black (Ranger), Old Olive, Bashful Blue (Stampin' Up!), markers (Copic); Accessories:  label die, scalloped square, long scalloped rectangle Nestabilities (Spellbinders); pink organdy ribbon (craft supply).

More Pink Cat Sneak Peeks!

Today brings another day of sneak peeks of the fun new stamp sets from Pink Cat Studio!  This new set is called Limitless Limbs, and there really are no limits to what you can do with these neat trees!  Be sure to check out the Pink Cat blog to see all the possibilities from the other designers!

For my Haunted Tree, I stamped the tree, ghosts and cat with black Staz-On ink.  I then did an embossing resist technique by using my Versamarker pen and applying it to the ghosts, then embossed their bodies with clear embossing powder.  For the moon I punched out a 1 1/2" circle from cardstock and used it as a template by sponging on So Saffron Ink.  I then grabbed a piece of post-it note paper and made a mask for the moon by punching out a 1 3/8" circle.  Then the entire image was brayered with Going Gray ink to create my night-time scene.  The pumpkin was stamped, colored and cut-out from a separate piece of cardstock and glued at the bottom.  I added some more spooky trees in the background, and a sentiment using a small alphabet set.  This spider web ribbon that I've had forever came in very handy for this card too, and I was so glad to have some of this paper from SU! left over from several years ago!  I really liked how the circle on the paper mimicked the circles on the ends of the tree branches!

And for all the Love Birds out there, you can also make this sweet, swirly-branched tree for your sweetheart!  I added the hearts to some of the branches, the love birds, and their home!  And I was practically jumping up and down when I remembered this "with love" Cuttlebug embossing border that I have!  A perfect compliment to my Tree of Hearts!  The "love" stamped on the heart comes from the Inspirational stamps from Pink Cat, too.  (Whoops... sorry but I just found out those stamps are no longer available in the Pink Cat store!  If you want to create your own version of my card, hopefully you'll have some lovey-dovey senitment stamp in your collection you can use!)

I hope you like the new Limitless Limbs stamps!

You still have time to enter the contest to win the Lily & Billy Accessories stamps, so head on over to the Pink Cat blog to secure your chance!

Pink Cat Sneak Peeks!

Pink Cat Studio is releasing 2 new stamp sets this week, so let the fun begin!

The first set I'm previewing for you is one you're gonna' love!  If you've been wanting more accessories and clothes for Lily and Billy, well now you have them!  These stamps are so great because Melissa designed everything to fit either one!  What you see here with Soccer Lily is actually Lily's head on Billy's body (because Lily is wearing a skirt on her stamp, and of course she can't play soccer in a skirt!)  Now my daughter Kelsey, who is my big soccer star informed me that no self-respecting girl would be caught dead on the soccer field wearing earrings!  I kind of agree, but I didn't have the energy to mask out those earrings!  For this card, I used fellow Pink Cat team member Lauren's weekend sketch challenge (I turned the sketch sideways) and I have Lily dressed in Smithie green (our school colors!)

So, by day Lily is a soccer player and by night... she's a ROCK STAR!  And she's totally psychedelic with that Euphoria Basic Grey paper, too!  She's got a bit of bling on her jacket, earrings, hair scrunchies, skirt and guitar too but unfortunately my picture isn't showing it to you tonight!

Stayed tuned for more new releases, and check out the Pink Cat blog (linked at the beginning of this post) for more samples from the design team members!

(Forgive me for not lising supplies used this time... it's 1:36 a.m. and I really wanna' go to bed!  If there's something I used you really want to know about, just drop me an email!)

Also, many-many-many thanks for all the visits and comments!  The last 2 days were absolutely blissful reading all the wonderful things you all had to say!  Honestly, I had the brightest smile reading every one!  I came upstairs from my stamping studio about an hour ago, checked my email and found another slew of comments, and thought for sure somone had hit the big 2000.  But would you believe... 1999????  I couldn't believe it was that close!  So I started working on editing my pictures and getting this post done and noticed a new message in my Inbox.  There was #2000 and as luck would have it, I won't have to mail this blog candy as the winner is one of my store customers (and new Copic marker owner!) Susan!  She's happier than a clam, I think and trying really hard not to wake up her husband and share the excitement!  And speaking of her husband... he is so sweet!  He comes to the store and buys stamps and gift certificates for Susan all the time!  How many of you would keel over if your husband did that for you?  I would!  So anyway, mucho congrats to Susan and thank you all for the wonderful comments!  Susan recently became the proud owner of a set of 36 Copic markers, and since I just got 3 new colors in stock yesterday she has decided to add to her collection by getting those 3 markers as her prize.  Stay tuned... who will be #3000?

Happy stamping!

Pink Cat Design Team challenge!

The Pink Cat Studio design team is having a challenge today to make a card using fabric within your design.  If you have time to play along, I'd love to see what you create!

I'm not much for putting fabric on a card, to tell the truth!  Every idea I had to just use a piece of fabric like I would designer paper was rejected because I didn't feel it would look neat enough.  So I opted to roughly cut a strip of this fabric from my sewing cabinet and use it as a bow.  I have no idea how long I've had this fabric... I think my daughter and I may have bought it intending it for a 4-H sewing project that never "materialized!"  Now that I've rediscovered it, I think I need to do more with it!  It's so pretty and tropical!

If you love Lily and Billy stamps from Pink Cat, be sure to check out the contest that's going on through Tuesday, August 5th!  You could win the soon-to-be-released stamps!  Check out the details on the Pink Cat blog!

Happy stamping!

 

Stamps:  Garden Plate #1, Birthday Plate #1 (Pink Cat Studio); Cardstock:  Green Tea, Navajo, Kachina (Bazzill), white (Gary Burlin); Ink:  Adirondack Pitch Black (Ranger), Versafine Onyx Black (Tsukineko) markers (Copic); Accessories:  black brads (Stampin' Up!), fabric.