Speedy the Cat's Friends & Inspiration Challenges

In honor of Week Two of Speedy the Cat's Friends blog challenge (to use corner punches on your card), I decided to do TWO cards. I don't expect this trend will continue, however.


My first card is part of my continuing journey to learn to watercolor. I've decided that I should do at least one card a week using watercoloring, which has not to this point been my color medium of choice.

The rose is watercolored using markers and an aquapen. The background is a wash using Yasutoma pearlescent watercolors. The corners are punched using two different corner punches. The top layer is a Fiskars three-in-one Leaves punch, and the green layer is a Marvy scallop corner punch.

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Stamps - Mark's Finest Papers Presents: Speedy the Cat Collection -- Spring Roses, Daffodil and Anise (sentiment)

Paper - MFP Strawberry Freeze, Spring Leaf, Watercolor paper

Ink - Palette Moulin Rouge, Jardin Moss

Accessories - Memento markers, Yasutoma pearlescent watercolors, Corner punches, Ribbon, Half pearl

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The second card was my SCS Inspiration Challenge entry. I saw these tea cups and liked the red check pattern. I bought the Great Impressions tea pot/cups stamp at a LSS that I frequent about twice a year. It's an hour's drive away, so I can't get there much more often than that. The rest of the card is pretty self-explanatory. I brought the red check pattern in with the gingham ribbon.

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Stamps - Great Impressions tea set, SU Like It a Latte

Paper - MFP Ripened Tomato, Great Grandma's Lightest Pink, Snow Storm Smooth

Ink - Palette Noir Black, L'Amore Red

Accessories - Spica markers, Ribbon, Cuttlebug and Diamonds in the Rough folder, Floral Borders die, Charm, Ticket Corner punch

MFP Blog Team Challenge

Today is the start of a new card challenge -- from Speedy the Cat's Blog Team. Their first challenge was to make a red, white, and blue card. For my card I chose the Spring and Easter set from Mark's Finest Papers: Speedy the Cat Collection.

The image is stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black on MFP Speedy the Cat's Morning Milk cardstock and colored with Prismacolor Pencils and Gamsol. After cutting the corners of the panel with a corner rounder punch, I mounted it onto MFP Ripened Tomato. The blue and white DP is from a Summer Matstack from DCWV, also mounted on Ripened Tomato. The card base is Speedy the Cat's Morning Milk.

Saturday is my favorite challenge on SCS -- the Inspiration Challenge. Today's inspiration website is Jazz It Up Home Interiors. I found this print of a red lily and used it as the inspiration for my card -- which qualifies for both the Inspiration Challenge and the Speedy the Cat Blog Team Challenge.

Stamps - Mark's Finest Papers: Speedy the Cat Collection: Spring and Easter

Paper - MFP Speedy the Cat's Morning Milk, Ripened Tomato; DCWV Summer Matstack

Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories - Prismacolor Pencils and Gamsol, Corner Rounder, Pop dots