Grinning Like a Cheshire Cat!!!!

And WHY am I grinning you may ask???? Actually I think it's more than a grin, I think it a Great big Ginormous toothy goofy grin!!!!!!!

I have been lucky with felines this month! I have been busting at the seams to share my totally exciting news with you............ I will be designing for PINK CAT STUDIO for the next year!!!
MEOW!!!! How exciting is that???

I was selected along with a totally talented group of ladies, whose blogs and artwork are simply delicious! I have added links to their blogs on my sidebar. Please take time to have a look at what they are doing, it's simply amazing. Melissa sure must have had her work cut out for her choosing a team and I feel blessed to be a part of it.

You are going to cough up a furball when you see the sneak peeks for Melissa's latest illustrations. I know I'll be chasing my tail until my new rubber arrives!! Perhaps i'll just have to have a little "nip" to keep me content until I can play!

I was So excited that I stayed up until the wee hours of the morning to create this card to accompany my post. ( Do you think there is a Night owl Design team calling my name? lol)
The Basic Grey Figgy Paper was the inspiration for my creation! I love the little dotted paper and decided that the pattern was small enough to paper piece her coat and snowy's hatband. I coloured the rest of the image with copics to compliment the colours in the Designer Paper and Sponged in some Cool Caribbean ink around the main image.




Liquid applique sprinkled with a touch of Dazzling Diamonds glitter adds some dimension to the images, as does the white gel pen highlights to the buttons, eyes and Cheeks oh my!
I would like to thank Nesties Square, SU! Ribbon and a Martha Stewart Border punch for their part in today's creation...............nope catnip hasn't gone to the head........ I am just very very excited, which for me sometimes translates into a little bit of SILLY!!!!!!

Have a wonderful weekend. I can't wait to share more Pink Cat creations with you soon!


*****Vicki*****

Lily and Tweet Sweet Sweet Sweet

Sweet is the word that I use to describe this image from Pink Cat Studio. I just think Tweet the bird is so whimsical and adorable and well, Lily, she is pretty darn cute herself!!!! With all the snow on the ground, I felt like putting a little spring in my step and created this pastel themed card. Using some Scrap Designer Paper......... I believe it is from one of the DCWV glitter packs and inspired by the little flowers in the image, I got the idea to mount my sentiment on the Daisy, which is from my much neglected SU pretties kit. I continued with the daisy theme by punching a border with a Martha Stewart Border Punch, layering onto my cardstock colours of celery and bashful blue.




I coloured the image with my Copics. Hey did you know that if you run your colourless blender over an area before you colour, you can get a lighter saturation of the shade and create a watercolour effect??? Well you sure can!!!! I dotted up her fancy dress with some white gel pen, glittered her ribbons with sakura gelly roll and added a couple of dewdrops for dimension.

What a fun card to create!

Hope you all have a Happy Thursday! and to my friends and readers in the U.S. HAPPY THANKGIVING. Have a safe and happy holiday!

***Vicki***

New Rubber-I'm in the Pink

It was just like Christmas when I arrived home from work yesterday, to find that my Pink Cat Studio Stamps had arrived. Holy moses! Seems like I had just ordered them yesterday!!! I was very impressed with the quick shipping.

Getting new rubber makes me positively Giddy! and I just couldn't wait to break into my stamps. The images came on a sheet of soft rubber, which cut very nicely I must add!

Heading to my computer to see what the daily challenge was, I found this image perfect for the gift card holder challenge. I had just bought this delicious October Afternoon Good Cheer Paper on the weekend and was itching to bust into it!

To see instructions or get the link for a Video Tutorial by Jen McGuire over at Hero Arts, follow this LINK



To create this card, I followed the basic Instructions on the Tutorial. Then I stamped my image onto Neenah paper and coloured it with Copic Markers. Did I mention I LOVE to colour??? Because I love having some dimension in my creations, I used flocking powder on her cuffs and muffs.............hehe.............poet this morning! and some liquid applique to create a blanket of snow. Then I figured that they would look adorable in the middle of a gentle snowfall, so off to work with the white gel pel. Then a little silver for her buttons and some accents on Frosty.
Ribbon, a Heidi Swapp clear Snowflake, Curly Punchout and a Button finish it all off quite nicely I think!!! The sentiment on the inside of the card is also from the Lily and Tweet set. I addeda Felt Flurry Snowflake from SU just to give a little extra oomph!!!!!



Thanks so much to Shirley over at Card Art, Etc.
for her thoughtful award.

Below is a translation of the Portuguese words and the rules for the award:

Translating the words on the above award from Portuguese to English: "This blog award invests and believes in proximity - (creating friendships)!" [meaning, that blogging makes us 'close' -being close through proxy]. These are the other words to be included with the award:

These blogs are exceedingly charming. These bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbon of these awards are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please
give more attention to these bloggers! Deliver this award to 8 bloggers who much
choose 8 more and include this written text into the body of their award.


So, my choices are as follows:

Jacqui over at Sisterlines Space in time -My best friend EVER!!!

Diana Gibbs-My Best friend EVER's Sister,,,,,,,,,,, who I can't WAIT to meet at CHA!

Candice Lighty over at Rubbah Soul-We are on the Hanna Team together and the more we get to talking, the more you would thing that we are Soul Sisters!!! I just love her and her work to bits!!!!!

Vicki, aka Basement Stamper at Stamped Smiles She does great STUFF!!!!!!

Michelle at Creative Treasures. Can this lady SCRAP............wow!!!! Inspires me to get back to my Scrappin' Roots!!
Cindy is a phenomenal Scrapper and Cardmaker. I had the privelege to meet her at a conference in Ottawa and I am totally impressed with her work. I LOVE her Bilingual Blog and you can see it HERE

Deborah over at Stampin' on the Mountain has a sweet and clean style that I like

Last, but not least my friend Wendy....... I had the opportunity to meet Wendy at CHA last year and I just love her to bits! Although we don't keep in touch as often as we should, I follow her blog and can keep up on what she is up to!!!! Hop on over and see her Wickedly Wonderful Creations

Well, I better bust a move..........going to be late for work if I don't get moving!!!!!