Peace, Love and 60’s Tassels

 

Sometimes you’ve just gotta get in the GROOVE!  I found this adorable little girl from Mo’s Digital Pencil called Berkeley  in my coloured up stash and thought she’d be fun to give some 60’s Peace and Love treatment.  She’s off to school with her tassled backpack and patches on her frayed jeans.  She’s such a cutie!  I’m also trying to do more varieties in my skin tones to represent more of the beautiful colours of the world and she was delightful to colour with my Copics.  

To coordinate with her vibe, I added cut paper “tassels" to the right edge of the colour-blocked patterned paper.  It’s easy to do with little paper snips.  And then I added felt flower accents to match her patches.  For the sentiment I stamped the blue-jean tab with a canvas stamp and then added the birthday sentiment (from Stampin’ Up!) for fun.  I think she’s very groovy :)  

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Peace, Love and 60’s Tassels

A Bank Robbery

 

Howdy again Pardners!  I’m back with another Western Slimline design for The Cat’s Pajamas Challenge this month.  This time we’ve caught the sunset Bank Robbery in progress!  This trio of trouble have held up the bank and are running off into the sunset.  I’ve used TCP’s Western Digi Stamp Set cause it’s so darn cute.  

All the colouring on the town and penguins is done with Copics.  

For the background layer, I sponged layers of sunset colours onto the Great Outdoors Stencil  with TCP’s Big Beautiful Blending Brush and some Distress Inks (Rusty Hinge, Wild Honey, Spun Sugar, Blueprint Sketch), and then added a bit of Prismacolour Pencil to give the clouds some extra definition.  It gives it a bit of the look of an aged scratchy photo.  

For some colour I added some stars with the Liners CutUps and accented the sentiment with some Bitty Banners.  

Some twine at each end adds to the rustic western feel, and finishes it off.  

Join us in the Slimline Challenge this month and you could win a $50 Gift Code to The Cat’s Pajamas Store!  

For more Slimline Fun please pop on over and visit the other Kitties in the Cat Pack playing along today. 

Wendy

Brenda

Deborah

Leigh

Nancy

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A Bank Robbery

Slimline Cowboy Birthday

Happy Trails partners!  Today I’ve got a fun design from The Cat’s Pajamas for the new Slimline Challenge this month. I'm using the mighty fine re-released set Happy Trails Digital set from TCP to lasso some fun for a Birthday design.  And at $5 it’s a steal of a deal.  I’ve loved these retro cowboy designs since Alma first released them, but didn’t grab them at the time, so I’m so happy they’re in digital form now.  

I coloured up the cowboy, cacti and campfire images with Copics and then trimmed them out.  

I created the background scene with the Great Outdoors stencil, the Big Beautiful Blending Brush and some Distress Ink (Wild Honey, Antique Linen, Rusty Hinge, Tumbled Glass, Mermaid Lagoon).  That was a hoot to work with, and it worked really well for this Slimline design.  Lots more square footage to work with and it really gives you that wide open desert sort of feel.  

To make the design cohesive and add some dimension I drew in the small background cacti and popped a little Copic colour on them too.  In case you haven’t already jumped in on the craze, Slimline designs are 3 1/2 inches x 8 1/2 inches and fit into a regular business sized envelope.  

I accented the design with some twine and added the sentiment with TCP 3 x 3 Stars Die to mimic the feel of a sherrif badge.  It’s just so darn tootin’ cute!  

So please join us on the Slimline Challenge this month at The Cat’s Pajamas!  Enter with your card and you could win a $50 TCP Gift Voucher!  

Here’s more Slimline Inspiration today from The Cat Pack....

Nancy

Wendy

Brenda

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Slimline Cowboy Birthday

A Rad and Retro TCP Blog Hop!

It’s New Release Time with The Cat’s Pajamas!  Our three new stamp sets and four dies are now available in the store!  To celebrate, we’ve got one more look at all the fun with our Blog Hop today! If you were just inspired at Nancy’s Blog along the hop, you’re on the right track, but if you get lost anywhere head on back to the TCP Blog for the full list.  

One of the things that first drew me to TCP was the retro feel of Sprinkles, Poochie, the Penguins, PJ....they all play together so nicely in a MOD fashion.  As soon as I saw this set, North Pole or Bust Stamp Set, I knew I wanted to create a 60’s mod highway scene with all the cute vehicles included in the set.  It was way too much fun to envision this card in my head and then see it come to life!  

I’ve stamped out all the elements on Copic XPress It Blending cardstock, coloured with Copics and then I trimmed each of them out.  

On white cardstock, I penciled in the roads, then inked them over with a black Micron pen, then popped them all up to look like they’re scooting home for Christmas!  

There’s some white gel pen to make highlights on the vehicles, some exhaust from TCP’s other set, Flying By.  

Next up some J*Y!

I was thinking retro colours and patterns here again with the gorgeous J*y CutUps Die and the Snowflake Border CutUps Die.  I started by smooshing some Distress Oxide and Distress Ink onto cardstock, spritzing, heat setting and repeating.  Then I added glassy glaze and chunky glitter to the snowflakes to really make them sparkle. 

It is SO shimmery in real life!  

Here’s another peek at what you can get in the store starting today!  The Country Houses die will be FREE with any $65 purchase.  

Now you can head on over to visit the lovely and talented Julee!  I’m so excited to have her join us this month!  I know you’ll be wow’ed again by her work!  Thanks for joining us today!

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A Rad and Retro TCP Blog Hop!

Kitschy Kitchen

Let’s go a little retro today shall we?  Wow, we have the cutest set to show off today!  It’s called Kitschy Kitchen.  It’s full of the cutest little animated kitchen things and punny sentiments that really make a fun statement.  

There’s just something about this set that totally inspires a retro feel, so that’s what I tried to do.  I coloured up our little spooner with Copics on Neenah cream card stock to match these fabulous papers I had in my stash, Cosmo Cricket Early Bird.  I love an aqua and red palette, to me it says 50’s kitchen wallpaper :)  So, on the background layer I wanted to capture that wallpaper feel stamping elements of the set in the different colours.  

I coloured up my ric-rack with my Copics to match and then added those awesome Nested Hearts CutUps Dies to accent with a couple of enamel dots.  Super fun and simple too.  

Here’s the Copics I used for the design.  

Are you In it to Win It????  You could win a $10 TCP voucher just by commenting on The Cat Pack’s Blogs!  Alma will pick a random commenter each day and the winner’s will be announced on our TCP Facebook Page and the TCP blog.  

We’re inviting you to our Pajama Party on January 18th on our TCP Facebook page where we’ll have games with chances to win, more sneak peeks and all around fun.    

Here’s the Cat Pack and their Kitchsy Kitchen fun today...

Brenda Nakandakari
Christine Okken (you are here)
Julie Elak

Lori Tecler

Nancy Thomas

Wendy McGaffey 
our fabby Guest Designer this month Wanda Cullen
and Alma at the TCP Blog!

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Kitschy Kitchen