Sami Stamps Release - Persian Kitty Cuteness

It's Friday, it's Friday!!!
I hope the day has started off fabulously for everyone!

We have a soft and fuzzy new release for you today over at Sami Stamps.  This one touched my heart because I just love my kitties, and Sami drew us a whole release full of them!

I chose to use Persian Kitty #2.  I had to do a little searching online to get some coloring ideas because I didn't want to just have a white cat on my card.  It may not be the exact coloring of a Persian, but I still love how it looks.  Reminds me of my little kitty that I had when I was younger.  Her name was PurrBox because that's all she did was purr :)
This card turned out very soft and elegant..love it!  That wasn't the plan but it sort of went off in that direction on its own, so I rolled with it.  I tried something a little different with the background.  Instead of just using an embossing folder to get texture, I tried out one of my stencils.  Ran it through my Cuttlebug with one of those rubber mat things to see if I could get a good impression of the stencil pattern, since I really wanted that pattern on my card.  And it worked!  It wasn't a strong impression, just subtle enough to know it was there.  I decided to go back over it again with some vanilla ink just to highlight it a little more too.

The punched border is from Martha Stewart and I paired it with some pretty striped paper to go along with the new challenge we have started at Sami Stamps :)

For the image, I wasn't entirely sure how I wanted to put it on the card.  My first thought was to have some sort of bed of flowers behind it so that the kitty was just sitting in a flower garden.  But none of the flower images I had really worked all that well.  I pulled stuff off my desk and laid it on the card, trying several things, until I pulled one of my left over circle frames over and tried that.  It clicked!  I wanted it to have a wooden feel though, so I cut 3 layers out of some Kraft cardstock and then lightly inked them in brown for some dimension.

Printed and colored up my kitty, and used an image from a previous release (Spring Branch) for a little floral decoration on the circle.  A few pearls, and a sweet sentiment from Winnie & Walter, and it was done!!  I adore how this card turned out!!

Now, run over to Sami Stamps, check out the rest of this cuddle worthy release, and then join in our Stripes challenge!!

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
    DigiStamps4Joy #93-Girly/Feminine
    Loves Rubberstamps #106-Anything Goes
    The Paper Shelter #161-Flower Power
    Winnie & Walter-Join in to Win
    Word Art Wednesday #135-Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by! <3

10 comments:

  1. Memories of days gone by where we had a much slower pace. It is so delightful to see such creative art. Thank you for sharing your talents with us today.
    Blessings,
    Carole Robb Bisson
    Word Art Wednesday

    ReplyDelete
  2. this is beautiful Emily.

    Thanks for join us at
    {Digistamps4Joy DT Member}

    Karin


    ReplyDelete
  3. Lovely card, Thanks for joining us at Loves Rubberstamps.

    ReplyDelete
  4. I love this card, especially the way the cat is sitting in the circle. I also like the little flowers on top of the circle and the diagonal border. Awesome!

    ReplyDelete
  5. Gorgeous card, love it.
    Thanks for playing along with us at TPS and good luck in the draw
    Greetings, Marianne

    ReplyDelete
  6. This is a beautiful creation with great details and perfect for our ‘GIRLY/FEMININE’ challenge. Love the circle with the flowers around the kitty. Thanks for sharing your talent with us. Good luck.
    Hugs
    Desíre
    {Digistamps4Joy DT Member}
    {Doing Life – my personal blog}

    ReplyDelete
  7. Sweet card. Thanks for playing at Loves Rubberstamps!

    ReplyDelete
  8. Precious card Emily! I love that cat with the circle around him. Such pretty die cuts.

    Thank you for sharing your wonderful creation with us at Digi Stamps 4 Joy!! Hope to see you again for the next challenge. Please join me in my celebration and a chance to win FREE candy on my blog. Have a fantastic week!! Hugs, Gloria DT

    http://purpleglocreations.blogspot.com

    ReplyDelete
  9. I love cats!!! So sweet!!!! Thanks for joining us at Digistamps4Joy for our "Girly" challenge.
    Blessings,
    Zella

    ReplyDelete
  10. so gorgeous emily.fab pretty design and i love the sweet kitty :D

    xx coops xx

    ReplyDelete