I decided to join in with Kendra’s Card Challenge back in April as I was starting to feel better – I figured it was an easy thing to do in stages as I felt I had enough energy and could just pick it up as and when. I decided I wanted to use up as much of the Kingston Crafts pet collection bits and pieces as I could so chose six papers and cut them into the different panels and popped each of the pieces into envelopes with the sketch so I could do a card at a time with most bits there ready.
These two are the first two I finished – they were more generic in designs of the papers so I turned them into cat themed birthday cards.
For the first one I added in the little banner element to the bottom and rather than the top little element be a banner it became a square I added a mat to.
The card sketches are designed around American card sizes so I did them as toppers for 5×7 cards instead of the usual card size but think they work nicely with the frame of the white card blank.
I hadn’t really got sentiments in the kit left that worked as birthday type cards and I think they are the more useful types of cards to make when you don’t have a specific purpose to making them so I grabbed the My Favourite Thing stamp set that is based around cats and embossed the Happy Purr-thday sentiment into the navy cardstock.
I added the little gems from the kit to each of the cards and to this one I also added the bow using the coordinating twine.
I added texture to both cards with a wood grain embossing folder.
I have plenty more cards to make from this use of Kendra’s Card Challenge (some of which I have not yet finished!) – so they will be blogged in stages over the next few weeks!
Happy crafting!
Catherine
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