Meowy Christmas and Holiday Fishes

Hello, everyone!  I'm back!  Before I share my computer woes, I would like to welcome two new followers - Stephanie Sanders and Jean Bullock - thank you for joining me!  If you would like to leave a link to your blog in the comments, I will hop over and follow you too!

My computer has been fixed and I'm back online!  It was the hard drive - again!  You may remember my hard drive crashed last January and - guess what - it crashed again, less than one year later.  Major inconvenience, but at least it was under warranty so I only had to pay for the dying power supply fan and installation.  I hope this new hard drive lasts longer than the old one. I think I have everything reinstalled and working properly. Thankfully, I back up my files every night so all of my photos and digis are safe! It feels so good to have my computer back!  Yay!  I have a lot of catching up to do!  It will take me a few days to get around to visit everyone but I'll eventually get there!

I have two kitty cards to share today!

Card #1

My first card features the December newsletter freebie from The East Wind called Meowy Christmas 2 (thank you, Unky!).  I coloured it with Prismacolor pencils and added Clear Wink of Stella on the bow and bells, and Glossy Accents on the candy cane, bells, and eyes.

Other products used:

• Clear stamp: Sentiment (Newton's Nook Newton's Holiday Mischief)
• Dies: Gina Marie Designs Pine Needles, Impression Obsession Holly Leaf Cluster
• Embossing folder:  Brick (unknown)
• Ribbon:  DL.ART Christmas Red
• Patterned paper:  Lawn Fawn (leftover scraps)
• Other: Xmas Red Stickles added on holly berries, star from my Dollarama stash

Card #2

My second card features a freebie by Fiki at Bad Kitty's Craftroom (thank you, Fiki!). I coloured it with Prismacolor pencils and sponged Peeled Paint Distress Ink around the image. This is a shaker card and I adhered lots of sequins around the image to look like baubles. 

Other products used:

• Dies: Nellie's Multiframe Circles, Simon Says Stamp Sending
• Patterned paper:  Forever in Time
• Ribbon:  DL.ART Christmas Red
• Other: Dymo label maker, red glitter washi tape and green glitter cardstock from my Dollarama stash, cat charm

For those of you following the adventures of my elf Eli, he's back from his road trip and has lots of photos to share! The purpose of his trip was to see how many other elves he could meet! He found lots of new friends on his travels! Here is Eli pictured with one of his new elf friends, so I'm linking this to the 4th Annual Elf Antics Linky at DL.ART!

I would also like to support these fun challenges: 613 Avenue Create AG Optional Twist Holiday Happiness 5/8; Cardz TV AG 1/3; CRAFT Christmas 1/5; Crafty Ribbons Christmas with Ribbon 1/5; Christmas Cards All Year Round AG Christmas/Holiday 4/5; Crafting by Designs Here Comes the Holidays 1/3; Crafting Circle December Crafty Awesomeness 1/3; Crafty Gals Corner AG 1/2; Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Extra December UE; Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper December UE; Creatalicious AG Optional Christmas UE; Creative Corner Christmas Time 1/3; Creative Craft Cottage Use Die Cuts 1/3; Creative Moments AG 1/3; Crop Stop Linky Party #23 AG (Distress Inks found at Crop Stop here) 1/5; Deep Ocean Silent Night UE; Die Cut Diva's Layers or Layer it Up 2/4; Digi Designs Traditional Christmas Colours 1/3; DL.ART December Linky UE 1/day; Doodle Pantry AIMPDC24 Any Digi 1E; Imagine That Creative Playground Joys of the Season (inspired by the traditional colours 2/3 ); Inspiration Destination AG UE; Let's Craft and Create Christmas/New Year 1/3; Little Scrap Pieces Show it Off Saturday 1E; Not Just Cards December AG UE; Pile it On Any Holiday/Celebration UE; PINspirational Photo Inspiration (I was inspired by the colours) 1/5; Pixie's Snippet Playground Week 259 (Card #1 - snippets of patterned paper and snippets used for die-cuts) 1E; Robyn's Fetish Christmas Cards with Die-Cut 1/3; Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Gift It 1/5; SUYP Cats Only Krimbo Kitties UE; Sweet Stampin' Animals 1/3; The Crafter's Cafe Use Ribbon 1/3; The East Wind Meowy Christmas 1/3; The Ribbon Girl December Card Challenge AG UE; Tuesday Throwdown AG 1/3; Visions of Sugar Plums Challenge Christmas/Winter UE; Word Art Wednesday AG w Uplifting Sentiment wk 261 1/5

Thank you for looking at my cards! Wishing you a joyful day!