Karen Titus, Independent Stampin Up! Demonstrator
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For a fun interactive card for a cat lover – check out this slider card made with the Cat Punch … or pull out card … I really don’t know what to call it.
You pull the roof up to see the words. Change the words and you have change the occasion for giving this handmade card.
Here are the supplies you will need:
A 5″ x 8″ piece of Pool Party card stock, scored along the long side at 1 1/2″ and 5 1/2″. Fold.
Use the 2 7/8″ square from the Stitched Shapes Framelits to create the window in the center piece.
On the cut-out square piece, add your sentiment. (I used a birthday stamp from Confetti Celebrations.)
Attach a 3 1/4″ square of Window Sheet under the opening.
Put adhesive along one of the sides of the house and close up the card.
Carefully, attach the square with the words on the inside of the card – looking through the window.
Cut a piece of 3 3/8″ x 5 1/2″ Petal Garden Paper and make a black cat with the Cat Punch. Attach the cat to the bottom of that paper. This will make the slider.
For the roof, cut a piece of 1 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ Fresh Fig. Cut the sides at an angle to look like a roof.
Use a piece of Tear & Tape to attach the top of the roof to the top of the Petal Garden paper. This will allow the bottom of the roof to stay open – and slide over the top of the house.
If you would like to watch a video of this being made – or you would like to see another DOZEN cards made with this punch, just click here!
Use the Cat Punch to make quick & easy cat cards – for those cat lover friends of yours. In fact – its so easy that instead of the 9 cat cards I had planned to make (for a cat’s 9 lives, of course) the number kept going up. Birthday cards and sympathy cards and more…
A great way to make a birthday card for kids (or to have them make cards for friends) is to combine the Cat Punch with the Birthday Memories Designer Series Paper! The balloon, gift, and hat are all cut out from one of the sheets in that paper.
The wood floor is a 4″ x 1 1/2″ piece of Wood Textures Paper.
What could be any easier than a strip of paper (from the Pick a Pattern Designer Series Paper) with some Black Bakers Twine and the Cat sitting on top?
To add interest to the words (from Teeny Tiny Wishes), I stamped close to the edge of my paper scrap and then used the edge of the Everyday Label Punch to cut it out.
Losing a pet is very hard. What an easy way to show your sympathy using the largest heart from the Sweet & Sassy Framelits and a little heart from the Enamel Shapes.
There is nothing like a forlorn looking cat in a window to express “I miss you” (from the Soft Sayings Card Kit).
Either this is a tiny window … or a very large cat… your choice!
For either a congrats card (you found the yarn?) or for a care card for a “tangled life” situation card – the ball of yarn tells the story.
I used the 3/4″ Circle Punch and the Adhesive Sheets – and just wrapped the Bakers Twine in a circle starting in the middle.
That cute cat loving couple you know? Here is a card for them!
Punch one cat out from a black scrap and one from a white scrap – and reverse the images! Add a heart from the Sweet & Sassy Framelits.
You can even frame a cat – for any occasion! Quick, easy, & cute!
This Cat in the Window is a pull-up card. Come back on Monday to see how it works. I will give step by step directions then.
The cat and the fishbowl is a classic cat story! The fish bowl and fish are from the Jar of Love stamp set and the table and stool are from the Wood Textures Paper Stack.
The cat rises again! (I saw this idea on Pinterest some time ago and don’t know who to credit with it – sorry)
Tip: Punch the cat out first, then layer the Stitched Square over the cat where you want it.
Tim shared the outdoor cat cards – since that is where he thinks cats should live. (Don’t blame him – he is extremely allergic to cats!)
Doesn’t this paper from the Wood Textures Paper Stack make a great outdoor setting for this cat behind the wood pile?
This cat is punched out from the Spooky Night Designer Series Paper.
The 2″ Circle Punch was used with Card Stock Vellum to create the moon. Doesn’t it look shimmery against the starry sky (from the Merry Little Christmas Designer Series Paper)?
The white Watercolor Pencil was used to draw the lines on the wall made with the Brick Wall Embossing Folder.
This “bloody” card looks more like Halloween! Tim poked his finger picking up the scissors (our 5 year grand son said he is going to give grandpa some safety lessons!) – and this was the result!
I remade his card so we could actually send it out!
The Wood Crate Framelits were used with the Wood Textures Paper Stack for this fun place for the cats to play!
You can watch us make these cards – and see Tim’s reaction to his bleeding right here:
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These are some of the products featured today – and when place a minimum $50 order in my online store, you get a FREE Card Kit in the Mail! Read more about that here.
It is now October – and my FREE Card Kit of the Month features the Christmas Quilt Bundle! This is one of the four cards you will receive:
To get the Free Card Kit – just place a minimum $50 order in my online store! The Card Kit, which includes all the supplies needed to make four different cards with the Christmas Quilt Bundle. All you need to add is adhesive. You don’t even need to have this stamp set to complete the cards!!!
So go ahead and purchase whatever you want to …. this is a great month to stock up on Designer Series Paper, for instance. Read about that sale right here.
How to Make a Step Card
To make this Step Card, start with a 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Thick Whisper White Card Stock. Use this pattern to make score lines (the dotted lines) and cut lines (the two straight lines).
Then fold to look like this.
Decorate as you please. I used Tranquil Tide and Pool Party Card Stock with the Quilt Builder Framelits Dies. On top of the quilt is a snowflake from the Seasonal Layers Thinlits and a Metal Rimmed Pearl.
Add words if you like …. I used words from the Floral Phrases stamp set.
To see this card being made, click here to watch the video. (Yes – its the same video that has the Cancer Cards!)
October is a special month for me. Four years ago, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. With a grateful heart each October I do a special Breast Cancer Fundraiser – with card kits, of course.
You can read more about how the fundraiser works by clicking here. We would love to have you join us in honor of someone you know!
Tim and I made some cards using the Ribbon of Courage stamp set on our Facebook Live this week. (You can view that and enjoy some laughs with us at the end of this post.)
First, Tim made this card for me.
The words “LIVE every moment, LAUGH every day, LOVE with all your heart” describes how we choose to live life – even more so after going through my cancer episode. Things like that always make you appreciate the little things in life even more!
On this card, I cased the main idea – tucking the ribbon into the “hugs” from the Lovely Words Thinlits – from Mary Brown, a fabulous stamper.
I layered it on a background created with the large Watercolor Wash stamp and Powder Pink ink. In the video, you can see how I use these large stamps.
Different colors stand for different types of cancer. We used pink because of my breast cancer – but change it for whoever you are making a card for!
For the inside of the card, I used the ribbon stamp almost like a watermark – with words in black printed over it. I love these words: “sending love and hugs to you” – perfect for so many situations in life.
And the, of course, I wanted to create one card that shows the versatility of the stamp set – no ribbons here. Just lovely flowers in this Support Ribbon Dies set that to make beautiful floral cards.
We had a lively discussion on our Facebook Live about my “living flat” – a term that I had never heard of until a couple of months ago and yet it describes me!
I am so grateful for these past four years – and I hope you will share this post and join us in this fundraiser! Just click on the “Cards for a Cause: Breast Cancer” on the menu bar above – or click here to read about how to join our fundraiser!
