cricut THIS!

This month for MidWestStampers the mingle ATC theme is "two colors and/or brads". My recipient is a cat lover, so I thought to play with that theme a bit here. I used the first item in the card function of A Child's Year cartridge to make my ATC base card. Size 5 by 3.5 inches (to fold). I prefer to delete the nick marks for folding from the item with "hide selected line". The cat cutout can be found on the Animal Kingdom cart. I flipped the shape and added it to the scalloped side of the base card at 1.8 by 2.8 size.



The background behind the cat is a custom watercolor background leftover from another project. I stamped a fun kittie background over the front and back of the base card with gold pigment ink and clear embossed that. Stamp is from DRS designs. My brads are two greenish yellow crystal brads from the stash. Some eyelash yarn trapped inside the card and as a tail finishes this nicely.

I had to play some more with fish today! This card is for my son who loves his fish tank and always wanted to have black gravel (when we the parents had the say LOL...).

This week's challenge at Just Buggin' is "all about pets", that is how I got the idea.

Carts and dial sizes:
Pagoda: center fish at 2.75
Animal Kingdom: Bowls + water at 3.25, SplishSplash at 1
Everyday Paper Dolls: left fish at 3 and right fish at 2.5

no Design Studio was harmed in the making of this card ;)

The water layers on the bowls were cut from transparency, then colored with copics and adhered over the lower bowl layer and fish with dots of clear glue which was supposed to look a bit like water bubbles:

The bottom black is glitter card stock that has got to be just as messy as real black gravel.... Amazing how hard it is to purposely sew wavy lines with the machine! Both cards from today fit in a regular size 10 business envelope.