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TCP 12 Days of Crafting Day 4

Posted on November 28, 2022 | Leave a comment

Hello and welcome to The Cat’s Pajamas 12 Days of Crafting!  It’s Day 4 and the theme is “Kid Friendly”.  Of course I would sign up for that one–I love crafting with my kids!  And each year we like to make ornaments, so that’s what we made this year.  First of all, my boys love to color, so they both picked out a Christmas digi to use.  The penguins were a big hit, so I also chose a penguin digi.  I cut them with my ScanNCut and we all colored them.  Then I laminated them to make sure they’d last through the years.

Then I used my ScanNCut to cut out some wreath forms.  To make the wreaths, we simply wrapped yarn around the circle to cover the paper.  I inked up the paper with green ink in case and of the paper showed through, then Raleigh decided he wanted to use red yarn.  He is very clever in finding ways to make his project different.

Come on over to the Cat’s Pajamas Blog and check out the rest of the 12 Days of Crafting.  There’s plenty of time to play along to win fabulous prizes!

We each decorated our wreaths with Nuvo drops or Stickles and I tied bows for each of the ornaments.

Now it’s time to hang them on our tree and enjoy the season!

Here are the digital stamp sets that we used:

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Feliz Gnavidad – TCP Gnovember Release

Posted on November 16, 2022 | 7 comments

I hope you’re having a great Gnovember!  Have you had a chance to play with this month’s TCP release? The Cat Pack has created some fabulous cards with these gnomes and I wanted to take a turn with the Tree Cup Gnome Digital Stamp.  He comes with some fun sentiments.  My favorite is “Feliz Gnavidad”, so I printed that on his cup.  It’s rather understated, but still fun, don’t you think?  I cut him out and colored in festive colors.  Then I tried out the technique from this week’s Technique Lovers Challenge–Wet Paper Watercoloring.  I made two backgrounds, one in greens and one in blues and cut them up according to today’s sketch.  Christmas cards always need glitter, so I embossed the snowflakes with iridescent glitter embossing powder and then I added Stickles to the image.  After I took this photo, I realized he needed some more glitter, so I added more Stickles to his mittens.

The 2022 Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop is still in full swing and The Cat’s Pajamas is one of the amazing sponsors.

I like the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop, because it reminds me that I should make cards for the coffee lovers in my life.  Personally, I’m a tea drinker, so it never occurs to me to make a coffee card.  I’m not so sure this is a coffee card, though.  I think he’s sitting in a hot cocoa cup, don’t you?

Here is the digital stamp set that I used:

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Bliss – Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

Posted on November 11, 2022 | 10 comments

It’s time for the 2022 Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop and The Cat’s Pajamas is one of the amazing sponsors.  Alma has a fabulous blog post up on The Cat’s Pajamas blog, and I wanted to join in and play along too!

I like the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop, because it reminds me that I should make cards for the coffee lovers in my life.  Personally, I’m a tea drinker, so it never occurs to me to make a coffee card.  But who could resist this sweet Bliss Digital Stamp?  I know I can’t.  I kept it pretty simple with just a fun gelliprint/stenciled background to let that bunny shine.

Here is the digital stamp set that I used:

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Silent Gnight – Gnovember TCP Release

Posted on November 3, 2022 | Leave a comment

Happy Gnovember, Everyone!  Oh what fun I’m having with this month’s TCP release.  Alma shared several of the fun gnomes already, and I’m joining in the fun with this Gnome Christmas Trees Digital Stamp.  I made two cards to share today.  On this first one, I wanted to use some of the fun Christmas DSP that I have in my collection.  How much patterned paper do you have in your collection?  Sometimes I have to remind myself to use it.  And when I do remind myself to use it, I often look to old Sketch Challenges for layout ideas.  This one uses SC261.  For my second card I had an idea to play around with the digital stamp to make an icy reflection in front of the gnomes.

I’ve always been really bad at mirror image stamping with rubber or clear stamps, so I love how easy it was to reflect the gnomes on the icy ground with the digital stamps.  I also used today’s Ombre Ways to Use It Challenge to inspire my coloring of the gnomes’ hats and the sky.

And what would a Christmas card be without some glitter.  I hope you’ve enjoyed my cards and that you’ll have as much fun with this Gnovember release as I have.

Here are the products that I used today:

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Penguins of October – TCP Release

Posted on October 23, 2022 | Leave a comment

I couldn’t let October pass without playing with the fun penguins from The Cats Pajamas October release!  My first card features the Happy Pumpkin Day digital stamp.  I made this card for this week’s Ways to Use It Challenge to use buttons. That challenge gave me just right idea to put my project over the top.  I little (but giant for the penguin) button on his scarf.  Doesn’t he looks so stylish?  I don’t know about you, but fall means plaid to me, and I had an idea to print out the buffalo check pattern from the Black & White Spring Digi Papers.  I never knew I needed digital paper until these came out.  I love the printer-friendly black and white and I love adding a little something to them.  This time, I used my Copic markers to make a colorful fall plaid.  You know a Jen card is never finished without a little bit of sparkle.  I couldn’t find a place to add Stickles to this one, so I went with Wink of Stella on the jack o’lantern face, the scarf, and the small pumpkin.

For my second card, I wanted to play with the Gobble It Up Digistamps.  This time, I checked the Free for All Challenge for inspiration–use dies.  I did use some retired dies on my card, but to go with the cutting theme, I chose to try out the Triple Side Step Cutable.

What a fun and easy to use cut file.  I love that it not only cuts the card base, but also cuts the matting pieces!  It was so easy, I made two!  I used my ScanNCut to cut two bases, then I cut the other pieces with two different papers, so I could mix and match.  I stuck with the same marker color palette, because turquoise just looks so good with orange.  You’ll notice I also couldn’t stop the plaid–adding some simple lines to give the tablecloth some character.  The sparkle on this card ended up on the leaves.

I hope you like what I’ve done with these fall penguins and I hope you’ll get a chance to play along with them too!

Here are the products that I used today:

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MWAHH! – TCP October Release

Posted on October 11, 2022 | Leave a comment

It’s October and time for a new release from The Cat’s Pajamas!  And this release includes one of my all-time favorite Halloween sets.  I was so happy to use the Mwahh Digital Stamp set for my card this month.  And what a great way to showcase such a fun image, but this Slimline Diorama card featured in yesterday’s Technique Lovers Challenge.  Fortunately, it was a really easy fold to do, as I am notoriously fun-fold-challenged.  And the bats from the Witch Please Digistamp/SVG were the perfect cute embellishment for the card.

You know this digital stamp set is a fun duo of vampire and zombie.  Here is a card that I made last year which featured the zombie image:

You’ll notice they both have my favorite moon technique which is sponging ink through a splatter stencil to look like the craters.  Check out last year’s blog post to find the fun inside sentiment of that card.

Here are the products that I used today:

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Sweater Weather – TCP September Release

Posted on September 28, 2022 | Leave a comment

I couldn’t let September pass by without showcasing this sweet knitting bunny.  It’s sweater weather, you guys!  The Ugly Sweater Season Digital Stamp Set is just so cute and so versatile.  Naturally, my first instinct was to make an “Ugyly Sweater Season” Christmas card. And what better way to feature different patterns of paper in honor of ugly sweater season than to make a Pop Up Slider Card.  This card was so easy to make with the Cutable and the video tutorial!

I printed the sentiment on the paper that I wanted to use for the tag and cut each individual piece of the card with different patterns.  Assembly was very quick and easy and adding the bunny was fun to do.  I thought he could use a couple of tacky Christmas trees behind him, and then I realized that an ugly sweater simply had to be paper-pieced.

But the best thing about this set?  It doesn’t have to be Christmas.  So I made a second card!

I thought the Chevron Cutable made the best background for it.  Don’t you?  I had so much fun playing today.  I hope you’ll find some time to play with the September release too!

Here are the products that I used today:

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Christmas in August – TCP Release

Posted on August 27, 2022 | 1 comment

It’s still August and I’m still making Christmas cards.  This August TCP release is just so full of fun!  There are so many options that I just couldn’t stop playing!

For this card I wanted to use the Christmas Cookies digi stamps and the ideas just kept coming.  They pair so well with the Christmas Cutouts and Ornaments SVGs.  First I had the idea to print the tree “cookie” digi and cut that out using the tree SVG.  That paired beautifully, by the way, with the Woodgrain Coverplate.  I love the look of that!

But then I thought about how fun it would be to print out that Santa beard “cookie” digi in light gray on white and cut that out with the beard SVG.  I paired that with and Every Day Tag printed with one of the Digital Paper designs.

But I still had more ideas in me.  What if I printed the ornament “cookie” digi with my laser printer and foiled it.  You know I can’t go too many days without foiling, or I suffer from foiling withdrawal.  So I cut that out with one of the Ornaments SVGs.  Doesn’t it look so fabulous in that metallic gold?

There are so many more options with this awesome August release!  What kind of ideas do you have?  We’d love to see them!

Here are the products that I used today:

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Let It Snow, Man – TCP August Release

Posted on August 14, 2022 | Leave a comment

We’re sticking with the Christmas/Winter theme in the August TCP release.  And this release includes one of my favorite sets ever!  Let the Flakes Fly.

For this card I also used the Home for the Holidays digi stamps to set the scene for these jammin’ snowmen.  I used my Brother laser printer to print a repeated row of houses and music notes to foil them.  Yes, I still think the foiling process is magic and I will never get tired of it.  I colored and cut the snowmen and set them down on some snow that I embossed with sheet music to keep the theme going.  Honestly, I never would have embossed the snow, but Polly’s Ways to Use It Challenge this week was Double Embossing.  Although she specifically said don’t heat emboss our embossing folder results.  I’m a rebel and I heat embossed the sheet music with glitter EP.  But also a rule follower, so I embossed the sentiments.

I told you that I already have the clear stamp version of these snowmen, but let’s chat about the advantage of the digital stamps.  You can make them any size you want.  What a difference to be able to let this sax player really shine!

Here’s an older card that I made with this set for last Christmas.  It was one of my favorites of all my 2021 Christmas cards!

I hope you’ll grab this set from the TCP store and Let the Flakes Fly!

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Bless Your Hearth – TCP July Release

Posted on July 28, 2022 | 2 comments

I know we’re all excited for the August release soon, but I am still having fun with the fun Christmas in July release!  How is you Christmas card stash coming along?  I’ve made some decent progress this month.  I was particularly excited to make a card with the fun Bless Your Hearth digital stamps.  And this week’s Sketch Challenge inspired me to also use the Holiday Toppers SVGs.

I use Microsoft Word to print out my digital stamps and when I inserted the two stamps into my Word document, I decided to also bring in the Holiday Toppers file to see how it would all work out and see how well it worked for the sketch.

It’s exciting to see how closely the card comes out compared to the original plan.  This one worked out just right.  I tried something a little different on this card.  I normally cut my images out with a border.  But I used my ScanNCut to cut these penguins without a border.  Then I added a border and cut again on plain black cardstock.  I offset it a bit behind the image as a shadow.  Something about the glow of a fireplace inspired me to have a shadow.

I added a few finishing touches of Stickles for sparkle, Nuvo glaze for the glass of milk, and some sparkly rhinestone snowflake stickers.  Feels pretty festive to me!

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