LCD/CV Challenge #194 - Fruit, Flowers, and Foliage

Greetings!  Here's a card created for the Lost Coast Design/Carmen's Veranda Portal to Creativity February's February Fruit, Flowers, and Foliage Challenge #194 on an odd day! I'm an absent minded crazy cat lady and didn't post on my scheduled day. Bad me.

Here's my card created with the gorgeous Grunge Cat Rubber Stamp which is one of the beautiful silhouette rubber stamps available at Lost Coast Designs!

Products Used:

Grunge Cat Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Raven (Black) Textured Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Obsidian Black Amalgam Ink by Gina K Designs

Copic Markers: G43, G40, G24, G21, B32, R83, R81, Y18

Tumbled Glass and Shabby Shutters Distress Ink by Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink

Deckle and Stitches Nesting Die Set by Unity Stamps

Sky Blue and White Uni-Posca Acrylic Paint Pens by Mitsubishi Pencil

Pigma BB Black Pen by Sakura 

Clear Glaze Dimensional Gel Pen by Sakura

Very Old Patterned Paper by Memory Box

Repositionable Sticker Paper by Avery

Repositionable Scotch Tape by 3M

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Glassboard by Glassboard Studios

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Cut black cardstock to 9" x 6.25". Score at 4.5" and fold to form an A6 card. Set aside.
2. Use Obsidian Black Amalgam Ink to stamp the Grunge Cat Rubber Stamp twice — once onto a panel of white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper. 
3. Use Copic markers to color the Grunge Cat.
4. Fussy-cut the stamped sticker paper version and place it over its counterpart on the image panel as a mask.
5. Place the image panel onto the STAY-tion secured with magnets and tape.
6. Place a piece of tape horizontally across the bottom part of the image panel.
7. Brush Tumbled Glass Distress Ink over the tape and the masked Grunge Cat to add color to the background of the top part of the image panel. 
8. Move the tape to cover the top part of the image panel. 
9. Brush Shabby Shutters Distress Ink over the tape to cover the bottom part of the image panel and ground the Grunge Cat. Brush the ink more heavily right under the tape and under Grunge Cat's paws and tail to create shadows. 
10. Cut the image panel with a deckled rectangle cutting die.
11. Mat the image panel die-cut with a slightly larger piece of black cardstock.
12. Remove Grunge Cat's mask.
13. Use a White paint pen to add an eye to Grunge Cat's face. 
14. When dry, use The Sky Blue paint pen was used to color the eye. 
15. When that layer of paint was dry, the pupil was drawn onto the cat's eye.
16. Add several layers of Glaze pen to add dimension and shine to the Grunge Cat's blue eye.
17. Use the R81 Copic marker to darken the pink flowers on the green patterned paper. 
18. Use the B32 Copic marker to color the center of the flowers.
19. Use a smaller deckled rectangle die to cut the green patterned paper twice with the same deckled rectangle die.
20. Use Shabby Shutters Distress Ink to edge both green patterned paper die-cuts. 
21. Trim a piece of floral patterned paper to 4.25" x 6" and edge with a black pen to create the background layer. 
22. Adhere the two small deckled were adhered to the background panel.
23. Adhere the the matted image panel die-cut over the deckled rectangle die-cuts as shown.
24. Adhere the card front was adhered to the reserved black card.

Note:

• Copic markers can be used to color patterned paper to match your project IF the patterned paper is cardstock weight. The inks will likely run if the paper is thinner.
• The flowers on the green patterned paper were originally light pink with a white center, so I used a Copic markers to alter their colors so that they matched the flowers on the stamped Grunge Cat. 

You still have time to create a project for the Lost Coast Design/Carmen's Veranda Portal to Creativity February's February Fruit, Flowers, and Foliage Challenge #194, but you best hurry! I hope you share a project for a chance to win Lost Coast Cash!

Thanks for visiting today!