This is for today's limited supplies challenge, and I want to dedicate this card to Faith AKA Markie's Mom. Today's challenge was to create some happy card which makes someone smile - okay, Faith makes me smile each and every day with her awesome happy cards and her stories about Speedy the Cat (though I'm not really sure if I should believe this incredible cat stories, LOL).
So, here's my story about Speedy the Cat - I just tried to imagine of what he might dream when he's just NOT about which stamp sets to choose for tomorrow's challenge... perhaps there would be many, many, oh so many colourful (Speedy LOVES bright colors, doesn't he?) fishes around him?!? Okay, when I look at the size dimensions, this could be some night mare as well, but those fishes look that friendly, don't they? I had to use some dots (otherwise I wouldn't dare to dedicate the card to Faith) and some glitter (perhaps a tribute to SparkleGirl?) on the fishes. Yikes, indeed, MUUUUCH glitter, LOL! And one of the fishes for sure is a girl - look at her lip gloss...
Okay, some serious things about the card: I stamped the image with brown Memento ink onto white cardstock, then colored the image with Tombow markers and a water brush, then added stickles. Two fishes and the cat were stamped again and cut out to achieve some dimension. I didn't want to distract too much from the image, so I used only a little paper clip as embellishment.
Faith, if you happen to look at this card, I hope you like it - and I hope Speedy likes it!
Date: Friday, August 1, 2008 GMT Views: 1072
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Fri, Aug 01, 2008 @ 7:38 PM
Speedy the Cat was STARING at the computer screen when my mom went to check on the HOUSE full this evening! We are in Disney World for Markie's birthday, and my mom CALLED us and said that Speedy the Cat was acting nutty and wouldn't leave my computer desk! She said she had to hunt for him and found him sitting there staring! I SWEAR! I told my husband, and he said that Speedy the CAT has ESP so he went down to the Guest Services and PAID EXTRA to get internet access in our hotel room! So....That's when I checked my email...nothing...then, I decided to cruise today's gallery and found YOUR CARD!!! OMGosh!!! Speedy the Cat KNEW!!!! FANTASTIC CARD, too!!! I LOVE it! Very bright and SOOOOOO Speedy the CAT!!!! Thank you for the dedication!
Registered: August 7, 2007 Location: North Carolina Posts: 28113
Fri, Aug 01, 2008 @ 8:22 PM
Oh I'm sure speedy will approve for sure! I know MY two dream in fish.... their treats are fishies with shrimp flavor and they literally lead me to the container... so when they're sleeping and their tails are twitching... I figure they're dreaming about fish... but maybe in black and white. LOL! Cute card!
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Sun, Nov 30, 2008 @ 10:13 AM
Oh my gosh this is great!!!!! I don't recall seeing it before, but looking through your gallery, it caught my attention. What a fun card!!! Faith and Speedy the Cat should love this. I like how you mounted the card with the background too.