Friday, August 8, 2025

Cats and Dogs Challenge 200!

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! You've got Kathi here today to share my first project for our August Cats and Dogs Challenge #200! As a crazy cat lady, I collect cat stamps (and stencils and cutting dies and stickers ...). The The Happy Cat Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs is one of my favorites because this cat's expression just fills me with joy and makes me smile!


I stamped the The Happy Cat Rubber Stamp with Tuxedo Memento ink, fussy-cut it, colored it with blue grey Shinhan Touch Alcohol markers, and then edged it with a black marker.

I grabbed a piece of patterned paper that worked with the beatific zen-like Happy Cat and used pink dye ink to stencil a pawsome heart in the center of it.

The patterned paper was trimmed to 5 ¾" square and edged with a black marker,

"meow" washi tape was added to the lower right side of the stenciled patterned paper. Two ⅛" pieces of black and white striped washi tape were added above and below the "meows".

Black cardstock was cut with a "smile" cutting die, which was adhered to the upper left corner of the patterned paper card front as shown.

Adhere the patterned paper card front to a 6" square black card.

The fussy-cut cat was adhered as shown to finish the card.

If you love cats and/or dogs, you really ought to play along with this challenge for a chance to win Lo$t Coa$t Ca$h! I sure I hope to see your artwork!


Thanks for visiting today!

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