Birthday 67 . . .

 I am back with another birthday card, this one for a man using one of my favourite House Mouse stamps.  It's a favourite because we have had cats that have done this in the past and here it is . . . 

 

I wish to enter these challenges . . .

Allsorts Challenge #787 Make it Grow: we have planted cat nip in the past lol!  Or Anything Goes (2/3) 

House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge HMFMC418 Anything Goes optional create your own background

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge  Anything Goes (5/5)  

Word Art Wednesday Challenge #653/654 Anything Goes (9/10)   

I created a 148mm square gate fold card.  I die cut a Rectangle from watercolour card.  I die cut a Sentimentally Yours Double Debossed Inverted Corner rectangle from Sizzix Textured Card and I cut two John Next Door leaf die from the same card in pale green.

I stamped the House Mouse image with Versafine Clair Nocturne ink.  I watercoloured the image and left to dry.  I added more watercolour paint where I wanted shadows.  I also added multiple layers of watercolour paint to create a proper ginger tom cat who looks fluffy.  We have had this colour of cat before and it is my favourite cat fur colour. 

Once the stamped panel was dry I adhered it onto the double debossed rectangle.  I stamped the sentiment onto a snippet of white card and added to the rectangle.  I used DCWV patterned paper to cover both card fronts.  I added the die cut leaves to the right hand side of the gatefold card and the stamped panel onto the left hand side.  

I opened up the card and added Tonic Studios Nuvo Drops in green to the stamped panel and in yellow to the die cuts panel (to look like buds).  Back soon x