Cats 'n Coffee Thank You Card

This week's the challenge at The Outlawz Coloring Challenges is a color palette challenge. My Outlawz Coloring Challenge teammates, Carla, Penny, Vannessa, and I challenge you to create a project for this challenge. You should check out their blogs to see their gorgeous artwork. 

Our November sponsor at The Outlawz Coloring Challenges is Vera Lane Studios, who is offering our lucky winner the choice of one of four sets used by our design team during November.  Play along with our challenge and share your artwork with us for your chance to win!

Here's the color palette, courtesy of Design Seeds. 

Here's my card with Vera Lane Studio's Whimsical Coffee Lover Gal set, two of the cats from the Crazy Cat Lady set, and the cat hat from the Boutique Hats set.

Using PhotoElements, the cat hat from the Boutique Hats set was postitioned upon the head of the girl from the Whimsical Coffee Lover Gal set. The cat in the cup from the Whimsical Coffee Lover Gal set was reduced and dropped onto the coffee cup held by the girl. The cats from the Crazy Cat Lady set were reduced and positioned around the girl, who was stretched to make everything a bit more proportional. This scene was printed onto Solar Crest White cardstock (Neenah) and colored with Copic markers per the color scheme above. Chalk pencils were used to add blush and shading to Coffee Lover Gal's face and white highlights to the coffee cup. The edge of the image panel was distressed, then sponged with Ground Espresso Distress ink (Ranger), then matted with kraft cardstock that had been edged with Forest Moss Distress ink. 

Kraft cardstock was run through the Big Kick (Sizzix) inside the On the Go Alterations embossing folder (Sizzix), then edged with Forest Moss Distress ink. Kraft cardstock was debossed with
the Clocks Embossing Plate (Cherry Lynn Designs) then die-cut with one of the dies from the Fishtail Flags die set (Die-namics). The next largest Fishtails Flag die was used to die-cut peachy/orange cardstock. An extra scrap of that cardstock was die-cut with one of the pierced flags from the Blueprints Two die set (Die-namics). Very old and hoarded Doodlebug alphabet rub-ons were used to add the sentiment.

Thanks for visiting today!

I shall enter this card into the following challenges:
• Aud Sentiments Challenge: Tic, Tac, Toe -- I did embossing, stamped image, and a die-cut
• Freshly Brewed Challenges: Lots of Latte
• Chalk N Stock Challenges: Anything Goes 
• Scrapy Land Challenges: Anything Goes