| It's been a while since I made a greeting card with my | | | | Black StazOn ink pad. I then put embossing powder on |
| craft stamps. I have been using my Cricut Expression | | | | the wet ink and heat set. |
| machine to make my greeting cards lately and I | | | | The reason why I used the solvent ink and embossed |
| wanted to go back and use some of my craft rubber | | | | is that I am now going to use my watercolor pencils to |
| stamps that I have, and boy do I have craft stamps. | | | | color in the image and I did not want the black ink to |
| One day I will post some pictures of all the craft | | | | run into the colors. |
| stamps that I have. | | | | I used watercolor pencils along with my water brush, |
| Anyway, for this birthday card I wanted to share with | | | | to color the cat and the stem and leaf. I then used |
| you first of all a really cute craft stamps, some cool | | | | another of my great rubber stamping techniques and |
| rubber stamping techniques and all this while I am | | | | that was to color the flower with an embossing |
| making a birthday card for my father-in-law. When he | | | | marker and then put on the embossing powder. Using |
| was at my home in March, I took him to his first ever | | | | my heat gun I then made the flower have a shiny |
| craft rubber stamps convention. He couldn't believe | | | | finish. |
| how many different craft stamps they had as well as | | | | I punched out of brown paper the flower pot. I put the |
| how many ladies were all in one convention center. It | | | | pop dots only at the rim of the flower pot, and then |
| was great and where we found some special craft | | | | used my tape runner for the bottom of the flower pot. |
| rubber stamps, so I thought I would show him what I | | | | I wanted to give a three dimensional look like the cat |
| can create using some rubber stamping techniques | | | | was really sitting in the flower pot. |
| that I have learned over the years. | | | | I then used Tulip Color Point Stitch paint to make the |
| I just love craft stamps that pertain to cats, and this | | | | dirt. I really got inside the rim to get the effect that the |
| particular craft stamp reminds me of my cat Tapioca. | | | | cat was in the pot. I again used my heat gun to set the |
| He is so cute. | | | | paint and give it the uneven puffy look. (When I was |
| What you will need: | | | | cleaning my craft closet a few months back I came |
| Cat craft stamps (Stamps by Judith) | | | | across all of these Tulip paints and all of my craft |
| Sentiment - Happy Birthday ~ Perfectly Clear craft | | | | stamps and I wanted to start using them for fun |
| stamps (Stampendous) | | | | projects like this one). |
| StazOn Black Solvent Ink Pad | | | | For the inside I used one of my Perfectly Clear craft |
| Watercolor pencils (Loew-Cornell) | | | | stamps and stamped Happy Birthday. Nice and simple. |
| Water Brush | | | | I almost forgot, I finished him off with a little black and |
| Flower Pot paper punch (Emaginations) | | | | white ribbon that I tied around his neck, for a fun look |
| Paper from Stampin' Up: Really Rust, Sage Shadow, | | | | for my cat. |
| Barely Banana, and Basic Black. I have no clue where I | | | | I hope he like the card, since I used the craft stamps |
| got the white card stock from. | | | | that we bought together. I sure had a lot of fun making |
| Adhesive pop dots and tape runner | | | | it. I think now that I had so much fun with this card that I |
| How to make it: | | | | will start using more from the collection of my craft |
| First I cut all the card stock listed above to get the | | | | stamps for upcoming birthdays and holidays. |
| layered look that I wanted for this card. | | | | Hope you enjoyed it too! |
| Then I stamped the cat craft stamps image with my | | | | |