Sunday 2 May 2010

'Cool for Cats'



Hi and welcome to my blog.

This card has been made for:
ilovepromarkers.blogspot.com

creativecottagechallenge.blogspot.com - circles

everybody-art-challenge.blogspot.com

papertakeweekly.blogspot.com - made my own background paper from scratch

aspoonfulfofsugarchallenge.blogspot.com - 3-d something

pennyschallenges.blogspot.com - #28 shapes

I found this a great design sketch given by the ‘ilovepromarkers’ team to work to. The main image of the Cool Cat in the Shades is a brilliant digital stamp created by Tim Hunter for Hambo Stamps and is perfect for the theme of this week’s challenge on ‘everybody-art-challenge’ , that of ‘Song Title’. (Cool for Cats was by Squeeze, if you are not as old as me and don’t know. LOL).
Once I had decided on the main picture I wanted to feature, I set about creating my own background paper to echo the colours I wanted to use in the design as I couldn’t find exactly what I was looking for in my stash. I was aiming to give the feeling of a calm sky and sea which wouldn’t dominate the page (well, that was the idea!) From there I coloured the 4 squares to match and drew the 3 fish bones with my Letraset fine line pen (0.5 width) and gave them a just a touch of blue Promarker too to indicate the sea & sky’s reflections.

The cat was then made into a ginger and white feline with my Promarkers and then added a bit of a sun burned nose to finish him off. I kept the colours of the inflatable and sunshoes etc., relatively simple to go for the uber chilled feel . This cat doesn’t need to try too hard! The sun & sentiment within it were made on the PC and added to the card with silicone glue.

If you like today’s card, I would love it if you could leave a comment.


Thanks, and don’t forget to visit again!




12 comments:

  1. Really lovely card. Thanks for joining us at I ♥ ProMarkers. Sue C x
    P.S. If you link to the I ♥ ProMarkers blog you'll be in with a chance to win the prize this week.

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  2. Oh, I just love that, lol. Thanks for taking part at I ♥ Promarkers this week and don't forget to link back to us. :o)

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  3. What a fun card, love that image,thanks for joining us at I ♥ Promarkers
    Ruth x

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  4. caUUUUUte!!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE IT :) :) :) :) : )

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  5. fabulous card love that image he is just to cute. Thanks for joining this weeks Creative Cottage Challenge. hugs Tracy x

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  6. REally lovely Tine, thanks for adding the link back to us and thanks for joining us at I ♥ ProMarkers.
    xx

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  7. Fabulous card , that cat is so cool Thanks for joining us at I ♥ ProMarkers.

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  8. Great card and colour combo..
    Love your colouring in...
    Thanks for joining us at Penny's this week.
    Hugs Alison.
    xxx

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  9. Very cute love that image.
    Thanks for joining us this week at the creative cottage challenge blog x
    ((hugs)) Suzie xx

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  10. What a cute card! Thanks for joining us at the creative cottage challenge this wk hugs Rebekah x

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  11. Brilliant, love it!!! Thanks for joining this week at I ♥ ProMarkers.
    Hugs Lisa xx

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  12. Fabulous card, wonderful colours and details.
    luv
    Debby

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