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Monday, 28 January 2013
C is for...
Cat, Cheshire Cat. And circles, as well. Alice in Wonderland was one of my favourite books as a child, cats are my favourite animals, so the decision as to what I was going to do for the latest Craft Barn alphabet challnnge wasn't hard!
The Cheshire cat face is a Stamp Attack stamp, which I masked while I coloured the background in shades of blue. Then I inked up the Circles stamp - from Tim Holtz's Bitty Grunge set - using Castaway ink (another "C"!). I followed the instructions and let it sit for five minutes or so, then I remooved the mask and ironed the ATC with a hot iron to make the colour change. I love this - you never quite know what effect the Castaway will hsve. In this case, it bleached the image a bit. All I had to do then was to colour in Chessie and the job, as they say, was a good'un.
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10 comments:
That sounds like so much fun and what a result! Love your Cheshire cat (with no body of course!!) sitting in his pool. Hugs, Jenny x
Love the technique with the Castaway pad.
That's an interesting process. With very cool results!
that fabulous! great blog!
FROEBELSTERNCHEN FROM AUSTRIA
ART-JOURNAL-JOURNEY
MOO-MANIA-CHALLENGE
Great Cheshire Cat using Castaway - lots of Cs!!
Love this!
just knew you would choose 'cat', especially if Mysti was watching! Fabulous page! Thank you for joining us again over at The Craft Barn x
What a beautiful ATC, I love the stamp. Great techniques too.
HUge hugs x
This cat's face made me smile. So cute.
Thanks for playing with us at the Craft Barn
Izzy
Lovely piece, the smiley cat is just wonderful! Valerie
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