It's All About The Hat

Hello Nomad friends.  It's been a busy few days so today I was determined to get into the craft room and make something.  I used to hate to think about Christmas before December, then sending handmade cards meant thinking about it a bit sooner.  Then I started finding Christmas card challenges in blogland that encouraged me to make a few cards each month.  Now I am a Christmas card all year sort of girl.  I really liked the colours of 52 Weeks To Christmas January Challenge, and today is the last day, so I figured I'd do something with that first.

Working with non-traditional colours makes you think of non-traditional motifs.  ABC want cats and dogs and there was this Brutus Monroe cat all NBUS on my desk just asking for a die cut santa hat.  I started with an offcut for my card base so this card is about 7 x 12cm.  I added a piece of grey woodgrain card and stamped the cat with Watering Can archival in a smudgy sort of way.  So I restamped the cat on a white scrap and fussy cut.  I found a small Sizzix stamp die set and stamped the foliage corners and the North Pole Air Mail postmark.  I added colour to the leaves and the cats glasses with a green gel pen.  The hat and hearts were die cut from a scrap I found.  I think it was a coffee filter that I painted with green acrylic paint.  It gave a fun texture.  I added some scraps of glitter card and a little glitter glue on the corner plants and done!

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Cat is joining the fun at
52 Weeks to Christmas Challenge - Januari Colour Challenge
ABC Christmas Challenge - C is for Cat
Crimbo Crackers Challenge 203 - Mini Cards
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - With Love
Stempelgarten Challenge 89 - Von Herzen