Welcome back, card friends! We have the very talented Julia Aston as our first elf of the New Year over at The Christmas Kickstart and she's created another gorgeous bauble-themed card for our Reminder post... Please head over and take a look.
Here's a reminder of the gorgeous card Julia made to get the party started!
As regular visitors will be aware I like to make an Inspired by card for the Reminder post and attempt not to shamelessly CASE my guest's original creation. I love Julia's cute Christmas pudding bauble, but really struggled to get my head around which elements to include for my card. I love the sweet, playful nature of Julia's beautiful card and so here's what I came up:
A single bauble, patterned paper and a little gentle humour! This card was made in these colours as a reminder of my sweet girl cat, Cleo. Once the tree was up and decorated she would quietly eye up a bauble, check whether we were watching and then extend a paw, bat the bauble from the tree and expertly dribble it across the floor!
I combined a few different dies and images for this card: Paws Up Die from Waffle Flower, Wreath Tag Sentiments from Avery Elle, and Funky Baubles from Sizzix.
My second card for this challenge is inspired by my boy cat Custard. He just used to look blankly at the tree and take no notice of all the sparkly, dangly stuff. He always wore a look of 'Oh, that thing again.' whenever the tree appeared.
The cat is from Globeland Stamps and the Sentiment is from a fun Whimsy Stamps set I've just opened called Merry Stressmas.
I'm linking-up over at The Jingle Belles as they are looking for Something Old, Something New for their first challenge of the year. The cat and the sentiment are new, but I've had the bauble stamps for years and have lost the backing sheet and everything! Still stamps well though.
Rudolph has a beautiful bauble as the prize for our first challenge of 2025!
There's still plenty of time to play along, so please come and join Julia and me... and don't forget to Bring the Baubles!
9 comments:
Such fun creation stories for your two cute cat themed bauble cards Jo - I can just imagine that arm coming out and knocking down the ornament to play with it - and the wonderful disdained eye looking at the tree! I've had 3 cats and none of them ever touched the tree - but one of them did love to crawl under it and just sit up inside with the lights around her head! I greatly enjoyed joining you this month as your elf Jo - thank you for inviting me! Julia xx
Oh my gosh, this is just WAY tooooooo coool! Excellent job of combining something old and something new from your crafty arsenal; also an impressive composition to make an entire scene, using different elements. Srsly, WOW! So pleased you could join our holiday cardmaking fun at Jingle Belles in 2025!
that kittie looks like he's got a bit of holiday stress-mas ... so very glad you shared your old & new with us at Jingle Belles.
Gorgeous Jo. Love your bauble cards
I've been MIA for a bit, Jo - but just had to tell you how much I love your cards and even more, your kitty stories today! We often found our Calvin perched up among the branches in the 'real' trees we used to get. For some reason he couldn't be bothered by the artificial one we adopted... but nap time often found him curled up on the tree skirt!
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Two darling cards, Jo - love the cat paw reaching for the ornament and the resigned kitty eying the ornament on branch!!
I'm in love with this cute cat paw!! It makes me smile!!
Ohhh these are fab Jo, that kitty paw!!!!! Love them!
Oh I got a laugh reading your blog and seeing your cute cards, Jo! I can just imagine Cleo waiting for her chance to play! And isn't it a kick how different our furbaby's personalities can be! Love your cards!
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