#194 - Fruit, Flowers, and Foliage Challenge!

Welcome back to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity where Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda collide to bring you twice the inspiration and double the fun!

Greetings! It's Kathi here to share a project for February's February Fruit, Flowers, and Foliage Challenge #194 on an odd day! I'm an absent minded crazy cat lady and didn't post on my scheduled day. Bad me.

Here's my card created with the gorgeous Grunge Cat Rubber Stamp which is one of the beautiful silhouette rubber stamps available at  Lost Coast Designs.

The Grunge Cat Rubber Stamp was inked with Obsidian Black Amalgam Ink and stamped onto a panel of white cardstock and onto repositionable sticker paper. 

The Grunge Cat was colored with colored with Copic markers, then the stamped sticker paper version was fussy-cut and placed over its counterpart on the image panel as a mask.

A piece of tape was placed horizontally across the bottom part of the image panel. Tumbled Glass Distress Ink was brushed over the tape and the cat to color the background on the top part of the image panel. 

The tape was moved to cover the top part of the image panel. Shabby Shutters Distress Ink was brushed over the tape to cover the bottom part of the image panel and ground the Grunge Cat. The ink was brushed more heavily right under the tape and under the cat's paws and tail to create shadow. 

The image panel was cut with a deckled rectangle cutting die and matted with black cardstock cut slightly larger.

The Grunge Cat's mask was removed. A white paint pen was used to add an eye to the cat's face. When dry, a pale blue paint pen was used to color the eye. When that layer of paint was dry, the pupil was drawn onto the cat's eye. Several layers of Glaze pen were used to add dimension and shine to the Grunge Cat's blue eye.

The flowers on green patterned paper were originally light pink with a white center, so I used a Copic marker to darken the pink to match the flowers on the stamped Grunge Cat. I also used a blue Copic marker to add a blue to the center of the flower. This piece of patterned paper was cut twice with the same deckled rectangle die, and both pieces were edged with the green distress ink.

A piece of floral patterned paper was trimmed to 4.25" x 6" and edged with a black pen to create the background layer. The two small deckled were adhered to the background panel, the matted image panel die-cut was adhered over the deckled rectangle die-cuts as shown, and the card front was adhered to a black card.

You still have a little more time to create a Fruit, Flowers, or Foliage project this month. I hope you share a project for a chance to win Lost Coast Cash!

Thanks for visiting today!