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Friday, June 11, 2010

My First Skinni and last night's LO

I have been seeing the lovely skinnies on the Something Completely Different challenge blog and have been inspired to have a go. This week the theme is cats. I love cats, I have two and they are my babies, so I was appalled to find I had absolutely nothing cat related in my stash!! I was sure I must have had loads!

Anyway I found a stamp about kitty feet and a paddy paw punch in the end, so I decided to use my two lovelies as the stars in lieu of any cat stamps. All I used were some paper scraps, not that it has made an enormous dint in the stash pile, lol.

I made a black skinni out of some shiny handmade paper, covered it with some 7gypsies and a spotty paper scrap and also punched and cut some circles of the same papers to mount the protraits onto. I cut the kitty feet part out of the stamp and inked the edges and punched some cat paws from the red reverse of the scraps of 7gypsies. The paws were a faff to stick so I only did 3! I have highlighted them in glossy accents, you can see it;s still drying in the photo.



Hope you like my first skinni, and my cats of course, Poppy and George (in his thinner days, lol)

Here as well is the LO we did last night at Craft Den. Really, really lovely idea with the floral vine stamps, which all of us had missed in the sale and we all snapped up last night! I have added some more details when I got home and also stamped some of the leaves onto the blue double dot paper and cut them out to form bouquets. The stamps are highlighted with white pen and stickles. We made some really easy and effective paper roses, which I am delighted with and will be using again. Not sure if this one will fit in the album now as the roses are quite thick! I have finished off with a title cut with the new T!m Holtz sizzix alphabet, which I can't remember the name of now. Paper are all Bo Bunny.



10 comments:

  1. Youve finished your layout off a treat - it looks brill. Enjoy the sunshine - hope you get some 'you' time! xxx

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  2. Love the skinny, but the layout is fabulous, love the flowers.

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  3. Your cats are beautiful, I love cats too.... The layout from last nights class is soooo lovely, you've finished it off so well. love the lettering. xoxox Ann

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  4. I love your finished page K. I never saw your photo last night, really sweet and I love Emma's tights. Great skinnies - not seen them before! Love Kerry xx

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  5. Love your skinni, great use of your cat photos. Your layout is beautiful. Love the flowers. Anesha

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  6. cute how they pop out of the circles

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  7. Lovely scrap book page, looking at the 2008 picture on the right and the more recent one? on the page your girl is growing rapidly.

    Love your cats wonderful companions love how you used them on your skinny.

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  8. a really lovely skinni love the way you've incorporated your cats! and gorgeous they are too...

    Thank You for joining us at SCD this week, hope you'll visit us again soon.

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  9. Not heard of skinnies before. Beautiful layout love how you have finshed it off. Emmas tights are fab. Have a great holiday. Lynne xx

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  10. Love your cats! The paws are fantastic and really set it off. Worth all the bother!

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