Sweater Weather Doggie with TCP

 

Oh it’s sweater weather, and I love it!  Welcome to the October release at The Cat’s Pajamas!   You’ll find all sorts of Autumn and Winter goodies this month.  Today I picked up the new Gnome for the Holidays.  It’s the cutest set full of Christmas gnomies, but the little weiner dog caught my eye and I knew he’d be perfect for a slimline design, and I knew he could pull of Autumn in his snazzy sweater!

He’s coloured up with Copics, with fine line sweater details done with coloured pencil.  Between his rubber boots, and toque, he’s a true Canadian ready for the season.  The sentiment is from a retired TCP polymer set, and I’ve added in the little leaves from a retired TCP Cut Ups die.  

The background dies give you all that sweater texture and the striping that coordinates with the image.  He’s sure a cutie!  

 

Here’s a peek at the set where you can see the cutie gnomes!   Thanks for dropping by!  

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Sweater Weather Doggie with TCP

Mush-room for Gratitude with The Greetery

 

Hello and Happy Tuesday evening!  I don’t know where you are but we are getting a few extra days of Summery weather this Autumn and it’s a delight to enjoy.  However, my creative hands are much more interested in all the Fall colours and textures.  Today I have a card created with The Greetery’s Botanicuts Toadstool Garden dies.   I began by cutting out the toadstools in a variety of warm colours along with some grass with a retired die from The Cat’s Pajamas.  

After assembling the toadstools, I added some Copic marker accets to increase the dimension on the fungi, and placed it all on a Lemongrass background which I ran through The Greetery’s Pierced Plaid Pierce Plate.  My goodness, does that ever give you beautiful texture!  I created an “interior frame” with a stencil and white ink, and also incorporated a cross-stitch frame with The Greetery’s Hoopla Oval Die, outlining some of the woodgrain details in the frame with a Copic marker.  

The sentiment is from The Greetery’s Thankful Heart Stamp and Stencil set.  And just to balance the design I added in a wood veneer butterfly which I added some colour to with ink, Copics and a white gel pen.  It’s definitely feeling Fall!  

Thanks for joining me today! 

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Mush-room for Gratitude with The Greetery

My Mama the Seamstress with TCP

 

Hi!  I hope your Labour Day was great (if you’re in North America).  One of my core memories as a kid was that of my Mom sewing.  She was a gifted seamstress, and had that as a job full time or part time throughout her life.  I can’t tell you how many garments she sewed for me or for our kids over the years.  She was so gifted at it.  I remember her teaching me and her favourite phrase was “rip it out”.  It always mattered to her that I did it right.  She was always dressed beautifully and almost always something she had sewn.  

So this cute design is in honour of her.  It uses a new digi set from TCP called One Stitch.  It features all kinds of textile arts, embroider, crochet, knitting and sewing.  I coloured the image up with Copics, with some coloured pencil blending added.  

 I used a lot of fun colours to coordinate with this pretty plaid paper, and added little stitching themed dies and buttons from retired TCP dies.  She’s definitely got her fashion on!  

And, just like my Mom - a “you’re amazing” sentiment.  She truly was, and I miss her greatly!  Glad to have a sweet memory of her to celebrate with you today!

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My Mama the Seamstress with TCP

An Airforce Grad!

Hello!  Our family has had a very special week with my husband’s family in the US.  We went for our nephew’s graduation from the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, and to celebrate his wedding two days later.  It was such an awesome experience.  So, for the occasion, I created this grad card for him using one of my all time favourite The Cat’s Pajamas sets called Take Off.  Knowing it was a very special occasion, I doctored this cute set, adding in Air Force symbols and uniform with a pencil and then a Micron Pen.  So, now he has an airforce uniform and airforce symbols on his plane!

I popped up the wing of the plane, and added the exhaust from the plane poped up as well.  The background is ink blended with a retired TCP Cloud Stencil.  And let me say we had clear blue skies and very hot weather for the grad!  

 

Here’s a couple of fun shots from the grad.  Vice-President Kamala Harris was the guest speaker, and she saluted and shook the hand of every one of the 970 grads.  It was a very fun experience for us Canadians!  

Here’s our nephew shaking her hand on the big screen, and below, our 2nd Lieutenant with his Mom :)  

We’re really proud of him!  

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An Airforce Grad!

Baby Week - Bunny Hatching with SU!

 

In what feels like a lifetime ago, I was a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator, doing this for many years.  And along the way I collected a few sets that I just can’t part with.  This cutie is one of them - Everybunny, long since retired, but still with the most adorable images that work for both Easter and babies. 

I used the cute little bunny hatched out of his egg and did a little Copic colouring on him.  Then I used some pretty dies from PinkFresh Studios called Essentials:  Mini Slimline Bundle to showcase him. 

The pretty plaid in the background is layered dies from Concord and 9th, both the Thick Plaid and the coordinating Thin Pad dies.  They combine so nicely together.  A faux grossgrain die is from a retired TCP die.  

A little baker’s twine bow, sentiment from another retired SU! sentiment set, and an enamel heart keep it simple and oh so sweet!  Baby cards are just the best to make.    Thanks for joining me today!  

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Baby Week - Bunny Hatching with SU!

Bye Bye Birdy Postage with TCP

Hello!  Today I’m bringing you some of the March Release goodies from The Cat’s Pajamas for a second look.  I didn’t get a chance to play with all of the sweet things from the Release, so today I am creating with the Bye Bye Birdy digital set.  These sweet little chirpers will steal your heart!   This is a creative set that offers both lined bird and birdhouse images as well as images already coloured in to make really quick cards.  I pulled out my Copics and brought some sunshiney colour to them.  

After adding some white gel pen accents to the images I cut out the images with a retired TCP postage themed dies with deckled edges, and then added some postmark stamping with another retired TCP postage themed polymer stamp.  Postage style cards are certainly on-trend right now!  

I placed all the images on some brand new digi-paper from TCP called Spring is Here!  I printed it on some textured white cardstock and it really grabbed the printer ink nicely!  Then a layer of vellum anchors the postage with a few die cut hearts as accents.  

Cuties!  I’ve been hearing the Robins lately in my neighbourhood and it gives me great delight!  Enjoy your day, thank you for stopping by!  

 

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Bye Bye Birdy Postage with TCP

The Easter Bunny is a Penguin with TCP

Easter is just a few weeks away!  Today I’m showing off the cutest NEW March Release items from The Cat’s Pajamas perfect for your Easter celebration!  This digi set called Spring Fling is the cutest retro set from TCP!  Who knew the Easter Bunny is a trio of penguins!?  

I coordinated the card with this brand new digi paper pack from TCP called Spring is Here.  It has the most delightful set of colours and patterns perfect for any Spring design.   All of my colour inspiration came from the patterned paper and I added retired TCP die accents including the swirly banner, and tiny Easter Eggs accenting the main image with a few florals tucked in.  

 

It’s a cutie!  Glad you could stop by today!  

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The Easter Bunny is a Penguin with TCP

Birthday Texts with TCP

 

Well Hello!  This fun card was supposed to show up for you on Tuesday this week, but I forgot to publish!  So, I’ll just show it to you a wee bit late!  You can always stay updated with my creative endeavours on my Instagram page as well.  ChristineCreationsart  I’d love it if you’d follow me there :)  

This one is for those friends that are far away on their Birthday.  My concept was sending a text to someone you love who’s far away on their Birthday.  So this adorable January Release set from The Cat’s Pajamas called Small Talk inspired it all.  The adorable little bubbles with cute sentiments (which would also be perfect for Valentine’s) were just the ticket.  

I used the retired polymer stamp set for my design, but it could easily be adapted for the digi set.  I coordinated inks and colours with a fun colour palette, and added a coordinating stencilled background, and card base with ink blending to give it lots of fun colour.  

Just a few fun enamel shapes finish off the accents.  Hope you enjoy!  

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Birthday Texts with TCP

Stencil Fun with The Cat’s Pajamas

 

Hello!  Today I’m showcasing some fun ways to stencil with some tried and true products from The Cat’s Pajamas.   I posted this on the TCP blog earlier this week and realized I hadn’t finished my post on my blog....so here it finally is!  

As I was perusing through some older TCP products looking for some inspiration, I found these cuties called  Yeti to Party that are retired, but oh so cute!  I coloured the Monster’s Ink-like pair with Copics and then created a background to match.  

I don’t think plaid will ever go out of style in cardmaking.  It provides the perfect way to tie colours together.  So, I used my TCP Plaid Maker stencil (retired), on my Make Art Station.  This board with its magnetic ability has been a game changer for me with stencils!  For this design I started with Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide ink.  

Then I did the diagonal with Wild Honey Distress Ink, and added in Copics for the red and teal lines.  I wanted the warm yellow to match better with my one-eyed dude, so I added some Faber Castell Coloured Pencils along that diagnoal to get a more orange tone.  

Next is a great design that shows how to stencil, without stencils!

Folk art is a fun trend in cards right now, and this lovely set from TCP called Folk Art Flowers celebrates those iconic floral patterns found in this style.  

So what do you do when you don’t have a stencil?  Well, its easy to create a temporary stencil from heavy cardstock with coordinating dies!  They aren’t as perfect and crisp as a regular stencil because the paper begins to soften and break down, but you can get a soft background effect that I stamped over with the stamps from the set.  

In this case, it is a nice colour tie-in to bring the card colours together.  For the sentiment, I die cut a circle in the card base and added a vellum layer with embossed sentiment into the card.  

Great sweetness for Spring!  Bloom, Grow and Blossom friends! 

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Stencil Fun with The Cat’s Pajamas

Cupid, Birthdays and Candles Oh My!

 

There’s been a lot of fun going on at The Cat’s Pajamas this month with the sweetest assortment of Birthday and Valentine’s goodies, and I’m back with a few more creations to celebrate!  

With Valentine’s only a few weeks away, I’ll start off today with a fun love card!  Our favourite bunny is playing Cupid today and couldn’t be cuter, he’s Feelin’ Cupidy  and I’ve coloured him up with Copics, trimmed him out and placed him on a vellum lined layer so you can see the pretty background die.  

The patterned paper colours create a great colour backdrop, and I’ve added retired TCP dies (hearts and the Love sentiment).  

The background die was cut several times so I could add the different colours of patterned paper into the die.  

Next a mini-slimline birthday design that also uses a bunch of patterend paper to make it feel extra celebratory! It’s Forget About the Cake!

Bunny is coloured with Copics, and then I’ve added some retired TCP Dies (balloons) to accent.  

A little white gel pen on the balloons and strings gives them that reflective quality, and the feeling they are floating away.  

Last up, I used the sentiment from the Sassy Birthday Digistamp.  This was a fun one to get inky!  For the background I did some ink blending with Distress Inks (Old Paper, Evergereen Bough and Grey) and then pulled out a retired succulent stencil from TCP and used the grey ink to stencil overtop.  Love the effect!  

The sentiment from this set is used letterboard style.  I’ve highlighted a few of the parts of it with Copics, and then added it to the card with some sparkly paper and sequins.  A simple design that packs a punch!

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Cupid, Birthdays and Candles Oh My!

Leaves All Around with The Greetery

 

Have the leaves begun to turn in your part of the world yet? That is, if you’re in the Northern Hemisphere, like I am.  We’re just starting to see some tinges of yellow on the leaves, which is always a beautiful stage.  

Today I’m bringing you some lovely leaves from The Greetery’s Leaves All Around stencil and die set,  (on sale right now!), with two cards.    

This first design is a Birthday one that has lots of vibrant colour.  My favourite!  

I started by die cutting and stenciling up this beautiful leaf frame with Distress Oxide inks (Mowed Lawn and Peacock Feathers).  I find that this is one design that it’s better to cut it from the die first so that your stencilling fits perfectly inside.  I also created a background for the design with other Distress Oxide inks, (Abandoned Coral and Seedless Preserves), splashing on some water and white ink splatters.  

To accent I added another The Greetery die, Botanicuts Hollyhocks which was sponged with softer versions of the background ink.   I love the 3D layered effect!  The card is layered together with the leaves popped up using foam squares.  I’ve added some clear holeless sequins in the background and the sentiment die is a retired one from The Cat’s Pajamas.  

Now a cool version with these products:  

For this design I used a similar palette for the leaves, but sponged Peacock Feathers in the background and a Bible Verse sentiment from Stamp Simply’s set Hope.  

I added a few extra leaves from the dies for the top of the card, and the sentiment, and overall kept the layers flat with the exception of that enamel dot.  These leaves are such a great way to frame up a great stamped sentiment or die.  

Appreciate you popping by today!  Enjoy the autumn (or spring) leaves, wherever you are!  

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Leaves All Around with The Greetery