With Love from the Cat!

Here's a card with Stampendous' new Laurel Burch Cat Love!

Supplies:
Stampendous Supplies:
Laurel Burch Cat Love Stamp
Laurel Burch Tribal Cats Cling Rubber Stamp Set
Gold Detail Embossing Powder
Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink Pad by Tsukineko®
VersaMark Watermark Ink Pad by Tsukineko®

Other Supplies:
Copic Markers: FV2, B28, B69, RV09, RV19, B06, C10
Golden Glitz Delicata™ Ink by Tsukineko®
D'Vine Swirls Cuttlebug Embossing Folder by Provo Craft
Pink, Navy, and White cardstock
18 Kt. Gold Leafing Pen by Krylon®

Instructions:

1. Stamp Laurel Burch Cat Love onto white cardstock.
2. Color image with Copic markers. Extend the image's border with a C10 Copic marker.
3. Tear along the four sides of the image, distress the edges a bit more, then edge with the leafing pen.
4. Cut a strip of pink cardstock, then stamp the swirl image from the Laurel Burch Tribal Cats Cling Rubber Stamp Set with VersaMark ink, add Gold Detail Embossing Powder, dump the excess, and heat set. 
5. Cut the strip in half, then trim to 4" wide. Distress the edges slightly and edge with the leafing pen.
6. Cut navy cardstock to 5.25" x 4" and use the embossing folder to emboss it.
7. Rub Golden Glitz Delicata™ ink over the swirls until the swirls are covered.
8. Adhere the heat-embossed strips of pink cardstock to the dry-embossed navy cardstock, then edge with the leafing pen.
9. Adhere the image panel.
10. Adhere the card to a navy A2 card.

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Steampunk Frame of Mind!

Steampunk Skull, one of my favorite digital images, was just released in gorgeous deeply etched rubber by by Carmen Medlin Designs for I Brake for Stamps. Steampunk Skull is available separately or in the New Steampunk rubber stamp set with six other fabulous Steampunk images that are also now in rubber! By the way, IBFS ships internationally!

Here's my card with Steampunk Skull.

Steampunk Skull was stamped with Tuxedo Black Memento ink (ImagineCrafts) and colored with Copic markers. The background is wavy because I was thinking of brainwaves. My Y28 was a bit goopy, but that actually added to the old brass look. Or so I say...

140 lb. Mixed Media cardstock (Strathmore) was die-cut with the bent and straight pipe dies from the Medium Pipes die set (Memory Box), a chain from the Chains 1 die set (Elizabeth Craft Designs), and the Steampunk Corner die (La-La Crafts) die.  

The pipes were formed into a frame and then painted with Metallic Silver Media Fluid Acrylic (MFA) paints (DecoArt), which also was used to paint the chains and the corner. Quinacridone Gold, Transparent Yellow Iron Oxide, and Payne's Grey MFA paint were dry brushed onto the pipes, the chains, and the corner to add the look of rust to them.

Blue cardstock was cut to 5.75" x 6.75", then took a ride through my Big Kick (Sizzix) inside my often used Clockworks Embossing Folder (Cuttlebug). The raised bits were brushed with Treasure Pewter (PaperArtsy). The image panel was then edged with my balky Silver Leafing pen (Krylon).

The Steampunk Corner and chains were adhered to the top of the card front. A die-cut Mini Gear (Memory Box) from my stash was added to the center of the Steampunk Corner. Three screwtop brads were used to both secure the chains/corner element and to add an additional touch of metal

The framed Steampunk Skull image panel was adhered to the card, then drops of Liquid Glass (DecoArt) were added under the Steampunk Skull's faucet. The image panel was adhered to the card and I called it done!

I Brake for Stamps has a huge and varied collection of rubber stamps that you ought to check out right now. Click on my badge below to be whisked over to I Brake for Stamps to check out all of the goodies! Best of all, if you buy something, you can get a 10% discount off of your purchase if you use this code: SAVE10KATHI!

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I shall enter this tag into the following challenges:
• Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenges: Anything Goes
• Creative Knockouts Challenges: Die/Punch Crazy
• SanDee-and-amelie's Steampunk Challenges: Anything Goes
• The Male Room Challenges: Steampunk