Hey everyone! I am so excited that Christine asked me to Guest Design for her over on Create a Smile. Create a Smile is a new company based in Germany. I am really proud of Christine for taking the leap and following her dreams and I love supporting that!
A few weekends ago I attended a crop- my first ever where I wasn’t teaching or helping organize the event. It was awesome! I LOVE teaching- I think you all know that but it was also nice to just emerge myself in my projects and have uninterrupted creative time! I was able to work on some Project Life layouts which I will be sharing here soon. When I came home and I shared the layouts with Chris he made the comment on how Mister Harley mad an appearance on every layout. Ha! What can I say he’s wicked handsome AND an important part of my life. That comment inspired me to create my own pocket scrapbooking cards to use along with the mister h photos I know I will be using.
I used 2 stamp sets from Create a Smile. Your View and Perfect Tune.
Before we get started I wanted to remind you what Mister Harley looks like 😉 He’s a tuxedo kitty with more white then black. Super pink ears and nose- unless he is snoozing then those turn a light pink. I tend when I color him to add more black though since it helps the image stand out more.
So I wanted to make a set of pocket scrapbooking cards to have on hand to add to layouts when I have a story to tell about mister harley. I decided to have some of them be on white cardstock and some on kraft.
I started by stamping the kitty in versafine smokey gray on Distress watercolor paper. I then smeared some of my distress inks ( black soot and tattered rose) on an acrylic block. This is now my paint palette where I watercolored the kitty to look like Mister Harley. Confession: I do add a bit more black, since he is so white because I think it helps the image stand out better! Once I colored a few of these I fussy cut them out and then used them as embellishments on the pocket scrapbooking cards!
Tips & Tricks:
Be sure to use a permanent ink when watercoloring. My favorite is Versafine.
If your image gets too wet, zap it with your heat tool so your colors won’t feather and bleed. I did this before coloring his ears and nose pink.
You can omit part of a stamp by just inking what you want as I did with the speech bubble- adding in “Hello” instead.
I will be back next Wednesday with some more to share with you from Create a Smile! Thank you for visiting!
Oh my gosh Jenn, these are seriously the most adorable cards I’ve ever seen!! I had to pin them, they are just so cute. (i loooove cats!)
awww thank you so much Marianne!! Thank you for pinning too 🙂 i kinda like kitties a little bit.. so you should def peek around my blog some more 😉
Ok will do!! 🙂
I think these are just adorable!!!
thank you kim!!
Super cute cards using Mr. Harley! Adorable stamp set!
thank you so much donna!!!
love them..the peeking ones are my favorite!!
thank you so much betsey 🙂 the stamps in that set are sooo cute it makes it easy to create cute stuff!! love that!!
Ooohhh lovely journalingcards I love with you did with that kitty. Glad to have you guest designing over at create a smile can’t wait to see what you come up with next.