Speedy the Cat's Friends

Vicki Dutcher asked me to be a guest designer for the Speedy the Cat's Friends' Challenge on the MFP blog for the month of August. The challenge for my first card of the month was definitely quite a challenge -- make your own embellishments. So, after thinking for quite a while, this is what I came up with.




I stamped the woven pattern from Backgrond Fun onto a small piece of MFP Desert Sand, then cut and shaped it into a basket. I punched lots of greenery, using the Martha Stewart branch punch, from August Greens -- my new favorite green. I made the flowers by cutting the very centers of the camellias from Apples and Camellia, sponged them a little bit, and attached them to some twisted wire with glue dots. After I put the basket together, I added the stickles. I cut the rick rack from some cardstock with the pinking blade on my cutter. The "dew drops" were made by punching out three circles with a small circle punch and adding some Alene's Crystal Glaze. Whew!!!


Stamps - Mark's Finest Papers Background Fun, Apples and Camellia, Flourishes and Frame
Paper - MFP August Greens, Desert Sand, Deepest Mahogany; Basic Grey Cappella DP
Ink - Tim Holtz Distressed - Vintage Photo, Milled Lavender, Wild Honey, Barn Door
Accessories - MS branch punch, Wire, Stickles, Circle punch, Crystle Glaze, Pop dots, Pinking blade

This salt and pepper shaker set is actually two pieces. The salt shaker is the flowers, and the pepper shaker is the basket.