So I feel like I am on the home run now with this challenge (so pleased I did this pre holiday!) and as always when doing one sheet wonders or using the same supplies over and over I get a little frustrated – so these I struggled with a little more! But still love the end results! Well except maybe one of them! But I will come to that!
What I have loved about this challenge has been the fact I parceled them up after the cutting element so I could just grab a few to work on at a time rather than trying to do too many at once – it has helped with the keeping the interest level up – but even so – I am coming to the end of that now as it’s been 16 cards made so far – and that’s a lot for the same theme and colour scheme! Fortunately for you I’ve kept the blogs separated out a bit with other projects between – but for me I made them over the course of a couple of weeks – I’ll be happy to put aside dogs and cats now for a while!
Anyways here are the four cards I made in this session!
This is one of the funniest layouts I think I’ve ever made with the cross cross patterned papers but I think it works! Not sure it would have worked with a softer type of pattern like a floral but you never know! It was fun to try regardless.
The actual sketch suggested another cross cross than I included but I like seeing more of the background navy so discarded two small strips of paper.
I added stamping and clear embossing to the green panel too to add an extra element as I felt it needed just some interest in the background.
This one I also altered the sketch because I had directional paper that didn’t work with the orientation of the sketch – but even switched around it worked ok.
I was undecided on whether to go with the bigger kennel paper or smaller kennel paper (Kingston crafts has double sided paper with the same design but smaller/bigger versions so you can choose which works best for your project)… and in the end decided on the bigger print as the design had a lot going on and the smaller print looked too busy!
But then I also added in the hearts I had fussy cut from the packaging of the kit – so this did end up very busy!
This one I added the embossing to the navy panel which is like a sun radiating out type design. It added some subtle detail.
I also amended the sketch for this too – changed the placement of the banners to accommodate the directional pattern and had it hang over the edge of the topper – this works because I was mounting all my card toppers onto 5×7 card blanks. I do this because the sketches are designed around US size cards and they are slightly different from UK ones (slightly wider and shorter than our A6). It does however give me the added advantage of being able to overhang elements which I like.
I also added in extra banner tabs with the sentiment and one other plain colour one to help balance it out in this different placement.
This final one – I do like – but this was the hardest for me! The sketch called for circles and I just didn’t love how this worked – so then I tried to bring in the doodles and I might have gone a tad overboard with the doodles and the white pen. So I do like the final card but I don’t love it!
Again I had slightly changed the sketch so it was reversed to work better with the way the poodle was walking and one of the patterned papers I cut into two smaller circles as I didn’t have a circle die of the right size. Plus added the sentiment as a banner strip.
You may have seen that all the cards I’ve made for this challenge have had bright coloured envelopes which coordinate with the cards – in most cases the yellow ones. I didn’t do anything for the insides of the cards but added fun coloured envelopes instead!
And so I have two more cards left to make and then I am going to pack up the remainder of the pet collection kit and pop it towards the bottom of a box for a while. I think there is still enough to make a good number of projects from albeit no full sheets of paper left and only a smaller number of die cut elements left – but after the last two cards it’s unlikely I will want to grab it again to play with for a while – I have so many other things in my craft room I want to play with!
Hope you’ve enjoyed this series over here on the blog though – it’s certainly been a change of pace from floral overload I normally go for!
Happy crafting!
Catherine
Inkyfingeredcat 
16 cards in a series is seriously impressive!