I made this card for two challenges: The Tuesday Teapot Challenge and the Alphabet Challenge for the Letter A.
Sue is the hostess for the Teapot Tuesday challenge and she chose a wonderful theme called, "Covered." We are to make a card based on the cover of a book we are reading or intend to read. Fun!
Ann is our hostess for the Alphabet challenge and the letter this week is A. The A's in this card are the animal (the cat), the annual flowers in the flower pot and all the books.
I just read this wonderfully heartwarming book about Dewey the library cat. As a kitten, Dewey was dumped into the book drop off on a very cold night and was nearly frozen to death when found by the library staff. They nursed him back to health and he took to the library like a fish to water. This abandoned cat changed the entire town and the people of this town in an amazing way. The entire time I was reading this book I kept thinking if only more people were like Dewey! The ending is sad, but the book is a wonderful read.
To make this card, I cut 4 very narrow strips of wood grain designer paper and adhered them onto the front of a piece of vanilla cardstock to create shelves. Stamped the images randomly on the shelves, then stamped the cat separately, die cut it and colored it orange to look like Dewey. Colored the images with copic markers and Zig Wink of Stella colored pens. These might be the tiniest images I have ever colored and it was a challenge to do. When done coloring, the card looked really bare, so I took the word stamps from the stamp set and stamped them in the open spaces. The library in my hometown always had vinyl words all over the walls so I thought I would mimic that on this card.
Thank you Sue and Ann for the wonderful challenges and thanks for looking! ~Karen.
Date: Saturday, April 4, 2020 GMT Views: 821
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Stamps: The Next Chapter Stamps & Dies Free in Papercraft Essentials Magazine Issue 183
Paper: StampinUp Chocolate Chip and Very Vanilla; Woodgrain DSP Open Stock from Hobby Lobby
Paper Size: A2 Card Base
Ink: Marvy Matchables Black;
Accessories: The Next Chapter Dies (free in Papercraft Essentials Magazine Issue 183), Copic Markers; Zig Wink of Stella pens in Silver, Gold, Green and Purple
Techniques: Stamping; Die Cutting; Coloring With Copic Markers
Registered: October 21, 2010 Location: in the okanagan in b.c. canada Posts: 13012
Mon, Apr 06, 2020 @ 4:31 PM
OH sounds like a fun read....would be neat to pet a kitty while looking for a book....I love too how you did like your own town library with the words and as well the cute kitty on it orange just like your book...sweet....TFS..:0)
------------------------------ We as people are raindrops of colorful ink , falling down Crisp and Clear, each a different shade more vibrant then the last, but once we realize at the bottom of an endless abyss we all fall into the same inkpot forming one color, only then can we come together as one My son.
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Mon, Apr 06, 2020 @ 7:27 PM
Oh Karen I love how you created this. So clever to put the words in the blank spaces and the cat looks so at home on the book shelves. Awesome card my friend. Hugs. TFS. Happy day
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Registered: November 7, 2006 Location: Willamette Valley Oregon Posts: 34503
Tue, Apr 14, 2020 @ 12:07 AM
oh my gosh, Karen...I just about cried reading your description and looking at that precious face of Dewey! But we are overcomers...love your take on the cover.
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Registered: August 21, 2007 Location: Wayland MA Posts: 105267
Wed, Apr 15, 2020 @ 6:11 AM
What a darling cat. Makes me miss my kitty! Great job with the books.
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