Hi everyone,
This is Colleen.
Happy International Women’s Day! Today crafters have come together around the world to celebrate YOU and all the amazing women in this wonderful community around the world, with an inspirational blog and Insta Hop.
Alex Syberia Design is proud to be a sponsor of this inspiring event, along with these amazing companies:
All the details about the Blog Hop & Insta Hop can be found HERE at the beginning of the hop!
Projects
Today I want to share 2 cards with Custom Playful Sentiments! I’m using the Cute Donuts digital stamp that was released in February. One of the donuts looks like a kitty, which inspired my idea!
Isn’t this stamp adorable? Alex has some real playful digital stamps to choose from! I looked up cat memes online and came up with two custom playful sentiments that are PURRfect for my cat cards!
Card#1
For my first card, I printed my cat onto Neenah Solar White 80 lb cardstock. I did this twice so that I could use one as a mask to do some ink blending behind the cat that I shall now name Beatrice! I used Catherine Pooler inks in Garden Party, Lime Rickey, and Grass Skirt and then sprayed them with water to get a cool distressed look. Can you see it below?
Aren’t those colors springy and cheerful! Next I colored Beatrice and added googlie eyes to her. I got this idea from my dear friend Erica C. Thanks for the idea, Erica!
The last part was to add my custom playful sentiment, which says “Meow You Doin?” That seemed to fit perfectly with Beatrice’ playful personality! I arranged the letters in a playful way too, using Stamp Market’s Chunky Alphabet stamp. I adhered Beatrice to a black cardbase and she was ready for some mischief!
Card#2
My next card is mostly filled with playful sentiments and one of the Cute Donuts from Alex’s release! This one is Beatrice’s cousin, and his name is Frank. Frank was not happy with having to blend in rather than stand out like his cousin. But hey, I needed him to cooperate! Ok, I digress, back to the card now.
Frank is located within the word “Don’t”! I saw a t-shirt online that looked similar to this and knew it would make the perfect playful card!
My first step was to upload this design into a Word document and reduce the size to fit with the Chunky Alphabet stamps. Then I printed the design onto Neenah Solar White 80 lb card stock. I used a ruler to create lines so that the letters were in alignment. When I was finished stamping with black ink, I erased the lines.
The last step was to color Frank so he popped up more than the other letters, add a few paws in the same color, and place the card panel over patterned paper that reminded me of a stressed out cat! I’ve had cats, I know what a stressed cat looks like! It’s not pretty! But this card is pretty, right?
I really enjoyed playing with custom sentiments and Alex’s playful stamps! And thank you for staying with me as I got silly!
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85 comments
These cards are just adorable. I have not really played with making my own sentiments for the front. I have done it for the inside but never the front. It is a genius way to make digital stamps, or any stamp more versatile. Very inspirational and lovely results.
The donuts made me squeal!! How cute xx
OMG! How stinkin’ adorable is that kitty on the first card?!!! And of course, the googly eyes are always a fun touch. Both cards are fabulous and fun!
Fun card. Love the play on words.
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This is so so cute! Love the slimline. The coloring is fabulous
How adorable that stamp set is! I love that cute kitty, both of your cards are so much fun!
Simply gorgeous! Love this Women’s Day hop! Thank you for the inspiration!
Two cute and playful cards. Love them, I do!
Adorable. And I just LOVE the google eyes… they really make it cute.
Cute and playful ! Loved both of them 🙂
We are very grateful for generously supporting our hop and also joining as Guest with these adorable makes.
What adorable cards! Cute and sweet! I love the play of words in the second card Collen! Thank you and Alex for her generosity and being a part of this encouraging hop. Hugs ~ Ishani
These cards are adorable ..loved them both 🙂 we are very grateful for generously supporting our hop and also joining as Guest with these cute cards.
Two fun, cute cards !
Happy International Women’s Day from Belgium.
Oh my so cute! I know some cat lovers who would like this! I’m going to try it!
Oh my these are darling. I love the vibrant green of the first card!
Hugs, Joy
Such an adorable cat!!! Love the googly eyes!
Adorable cards! I really love how the donut is used as an O in the second card.
Fun, thanks for sharing.
Love this cute kitty peeking over the edge of this wonderful slimline design!! Super fun sentiment on the second card!!
Thanks for supporting this event, which was such a spirit lifting event during the uncertainty of the pandemic and what that would be like. This hop came me purpose and hope and motivated me to stay content in my crafting. Good to see it is happening again this year.
This is beautiful. This hop is so fun!!
Whimsy fun with wonderful coloring of cats. Like the slimline that is popular these days and eyes for attention grabbing focus. Like the bold bright colors with large lettering sentiment.
Melissa
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Cuddly cute! I love the cute face as donut kitty on the first one with googly eyes with additional spot details and the focus on the sentiment on the other one with paw prints is just awesome!