Quick and Easy

Hello Crafty Friends!

I cant believe how quickly this year has passed! 

Today I want to share a cute and simple cat card I made for a friend whom is a fellow cat lady. 

Stamp Used:

Tuxedo Cats

Do you ever feel like you struggle to make a quick and simple card when you need? 

Me too!

Fear not, this stamp really does all of the work for you! 

I started by stamping my tuxedo cat stamp on white card stock with black memento ink. 

To color my image, I used a variety of alcohol based markers.

(Blick, Copic, and Spectrum Noir)

I chose to do a double mat to give more visual interest. 

I hope this gives you some ideas for a quick and easy card! 

I love that this stamp can be used for any occasion, and who doesn't love cats?!

Happy New Year!!!Stay crafty my friends

Index card art

Hello Crafty Friends!

Happy Monday!

I hope you all are having a wonderful December! 

Here in Ohio we have been blessed with wonderful and unseasonable weather! 

(50's and 60's rather than the usual teens or lower!!)

Today I want to share 2 altered index cards with you.

I seem to be feeling the itch for them again... I love the size and how fun they are to flip through when you have several together.  This time I am not trying to convince myself that I will finish 1 a day (#ICAD). Rather, I am just following whatever my crafty muse tells me to do!

I am also on a kick for faux postage of late, so maybe I will share some of that in a later post.

Anyhow, lets get on with showing you these mini works of art.

Stamps Used: 
Get Cape Wear Cape Fly
Boy in Cape
Grandville Bug
Postcard - ATC

This one was fun to be able to match with my washi tape that had the quote on it!

(Background was created with Distress Oxide ink and a layering stencil)

This one is of course this one is total love for me! 

I had this piece of scrap paper cut to index card size already.  A while back I had used it to test my crackle medium, but never went any farther with it. 

I saw it the other day and I instantly knew what was missing... So along came my Grandville character and the postal marks (along with some ink distressing) and it was instant love!

Have you made any altered index cards or participated in #ICAD ?