Surfing crazy cat....

I am happy to announce that I am now also an owner of the crazy cat stamps by Tim Holtz.
One of the cats immediately triggered an idea in my head..that is crazy..
Sometimes I do get crazy ideas, but getting them on paper is a different thing. Sometimes it doesn't turn out quite like I invisioned. Luckily this time...IT DID!

So I give to you Gnarly, the surfing cat!

This card turned out exactly how I planned it. Normally my projects have a life of their own and sometimes turn out completely different. But this turned out exactly how it looked in my head.

Here are the steps I took to make this:

I stamped the cat image on water color card stock with stazon ink. After that dried I painted the cat with a liquid mask.

I used my MISTI to stamp the Koi by Nicole Wright Designs, on top of the cat. And that was also covered with a liquid mask.

I painted the background with tumbled glass distress ink and a water brush. While that was drying I mixed up a dollop of clear embossing paste by Wendy Vecchi with some tumbled glass reinker. I wanted to emulate waves, as you need waves to surf hahaha.
That took FOREVER to dry!! I dried it using my heat it tool, put it on our woodburner and even under the heat lamp of our turtles!! You can guess by now that I am an extremely impatient crafter.. Anyway... after about 10 hours of drying it was dry enough to proceed...

I gently rubbed off the rubber mask and made sure all traces were gone. At this point I was still not sure what colour the cat was going to be. So I inked the Koi first as that was going to be orange anyway. The cat was either going to be grey or green.. I needed a good contrast between the fish and the cat. After the Koi was orange I decided to give the cat a bold colour too and painted the little surfer cracked pistachio. Gnarly is not your everyday cat you see hahahaha. I decided to give him a few beige parts to break it up. After that all dried I dabbed the peaks of the waves with pearl paint dabbers and my fingers to create the look of foam heads on the waves. It has to look like surf!!!

I inked the edge of the card with walnut stain distress ink and covered the eyes with glossy accents, and last but not least I stamped the sentiment with one of my alphabet stamps.
I am quite proud of how it turned out. Gnarly looks like he is enjoying himself  :-) :-)

Thank you for stepping by and I hope you visit again.

Take care,
Freddie
xxxx