Card 1
Card 2
This card cracks me up! The cat looks so dapper, like he was posing for a portrait!
I was inspired by the sketch at Tuesday Morning Sketches 393:
I would also like to support these fun challenges: Crafty Catz AG Twist Mainly Green (Card 1) 1/3; Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas AG Christmas UE; Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Extra March UE; Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper March UE; Creatalicious AG Optional Green (Card 1) UE; Cut it Up Think Green (Card 1) 1E; Die Cut Divas Love of Animals 4/4; DL.ART March Linky AG UE 1/d; Sweet Stampin' Christmas AG Christmas 1/2; Unicorn Challenge Go Green (Card 1) UE; Word Art Wednesday AG w uplifting sentiment Wk2 2/5
Note to my followers: I might not be around for a week or two - I've started to do some organizing/reorganizing in my craftroom and I want to continue! I spent 3 hours catching up on blog visiting/commenting this morning and I'm still not finished! I started having to prove I'm not a robot so I'll eventually get around to all I missed!
Thank you for looking at my cards! Wishing you a joyful day!
- Image: Recycled Christmas tag
- Clear stamp: Sentiment (Momenta)
- Dies: Pierced Fancy Nesting Label (Gina Marie Designs), Mini Snowflake (Lawn Fawn)
- Embossing folder: Cuttlebug Christmas Set
- Patterned paper: Forever in Time
- Other: Holly leaves from my old Dollarama stash
Card 2
This card cracks me up! The cat looks so dapper, like he was posing for a portrait!
- Image: Recycled Christmas card, fussy-cut
- Dies: Scalloped Stitched Oval Frame (Gina Marie Designs), oval (Lawn Fawn), corner (Cheery Lynn), bow (Paper Smooches), snowflakes (Lawn Fawn)
- Patterned paper: Doodlebug
I was inspired by the sketch at Tuesday Morning Sketches 393:
I would also like to support these fun challenges: Crafty Catz AG Twist Mainly Green (Card 1) 1/3; Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas AG Christmas UE; Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Extra March UE; Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper March UE; Creatalicious AG Optional Green (Card 1) UE; Cut it Up Think Green (Card 1) 1E; Die Cut Divas Love of Animals 4/4; DL.ART March Linky AG UE 1/d; Sweet Stampin' Christmas AG Christmas 1/2; Unicorn Challenge Go Green (Card 1) UE; Word Art Wednesday AG w uplifting sentiment Wk2 2/5
Note to my followers: I might not be around for a week or two - I've started to do some organizing/reorganizing in my craftroom and I want to continue! I spent 3 hours catching up on blog visiting/commenting this morning and I'm still not finished! I started having to prove I'm not a robot so I'll eventually get around to all I missed!
Thank you for looking at my cards! Wishing you a joyful day!
Love both cards. Organizing is the pits! Making cards is much more fun. And if you are unorganized, you often find treasures in the chaos.
ReplyDeleteBoth are wonderful. Love the happy penguin and that cat is a hoot! Great recycling and love them both.
ReplyDeleteHave fun re-organizing!
Lynn
Super cards Kitty, lovely recycled images.
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Very cute cards. Love them both!
ReplyDeleteFantastic idea to recycle old Christmas cards! Both cards are wonderful but the cat one... well, he is darling and the blue background was the perfect choice.
ReplyDeleteLove your cards and thanks for sharing them with us at CraftyCatz this week.x
ReplyDeleteI have a lot of commercial Christmas cards to recycle, I have to CASEing your goal! LOL These two are so lovely and the second one cracked me up too, this supercute and fun cat seems my Rosso! :D Great interpretations of the sketches!
ReplyDeleteBoth of your card are absolutely adorable, beautifully recycling Kitty!
ReplyDeleteI never thought of using recycled Christmas cards this way, and how great that you do it for charitable purposes! I think you've inspired me!
ReplyDeleteI've kept cards for recycling too but I haven't done any yet. My favorite is the cat face one, I just love his face and how you gave him new life. Two great cards!
ReplyDeleteSuper cute cards! Great way to recycle!
ReplyDeleteGreat recycling to create wonderful Christmas cards.
ReplyDeleteGreat recycling and I love that video you had for inspiration. Great ideas.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your reorganizing! Take a picture of the before and after.
Both fabulous fun cards and such great recycling xx
ReplyDeleteGreat cards with your recycling the Christmas cards....I think I might have that penguin too and what a great image of the cat...well done!
ReplyDeleteOh Kitty I understand about re-doing a craft room...I've been working on mine for months but Vince is almost finish with the shelving BUT the big problem is brining everything from upstairs to downstairs...I do so much each day and it's coming along and getting everything sorted takes a long time....take care my friend
Love your idea to re-cycle Christmas tags and cards! Really enjoy both versions of cards but must say the cat is my favorite. Good luck with your continuing craft room cleaning. Thanks for sharing with us this week at Tuesday Morning Sketches.
ReplyDeleteThese are both so fun and fabulous!! I love the images you used and the designs!! They are so beautiful!! Thanks so much for playing along at DL.ART!! Good luck with the craft room cleaning. Want to come over and do mine when you're finished?? It's a disaster area at the moment ;) Have a great weekend!! Big hugs :)
ReplyDeleteLisa
A Mermaid's Crafts
These are cute recycles. You go girl on the organizing. I love organization. It makes it so much easier to find your "schtuff".
ReplyDeleteOh, I LOVE these cards! They are awesome! Thank you for the kind words on my blog; so appreciate your encouragement! Love how you are using your creativity and recycling! :)
ReplyDeleteLovely way to recycle old Christmas cards. I have a box full and think this is something I should be doing :-) Thanks for the inspiration, Kitty. Have a wonderful Sunday and week. Hugs~Lena
ReplyDeleteAdorable cards! Thank you for joining us at Creatalicious Challenges!
ReplyDelete~DT Sherry x
I do this too! I love the challenge of it! Thank you for sharing at Creatalicious - Jackie DT member xx
ReplyDeleteFantastic recyclying Kitty - they are both lovely but the cat one is hilarious - I love it! Michelle x
ReplyDeleteBoth cards are super cute, great job of the recycling. Awesome use of both sketches too.
ReplyDeleteThese are so cute Kitty, I showed my hubby these and your last batch, we sit and have coffee and read email on the weekend, and he thought this was a great idea!
ReplyDeleteTwo fantastic recycled cards Kitty. Enjoy your reorganising.
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Cathy
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Hi there Kitty. I saw your winning card on Connie Can Crop for #55. Here's the link
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It's for the cute CottageCutz squirrel and mail box card. Congrats!
They're great Kitty. That cat really made me smile. Thanks for sharing the link to Vicky's blog. I watched after reading your earlier post and was amazed what she did in 30 mins - really inspiring! Barbxx
ReplyDeleteVery cute. So glad you joined us at Die Cut Divas.
ReplyDeleteGreat cards and the fact that they are recycled is awesome!
ReplyDeletehello my friend!
ReplyDeletethose cards are so pretty!
lots of hugs
Cute cute both Kitty
ReplyDeleteI love all DIES you have
and I follow you now I bought from Ch*** for my DIES its ceapher yayyy...thanks for the TIP sweet friend
and I love that tiny Holly leaves on the first card and the snowflakes on the second card is great added
andddd I used the one from you too on this card
hope you like to visit me I say thanks to you Kitty
and I am sorry I did not visiting any Blog..I was busy with my kids and Job Application (again) yeah :(
See you here Kitty (see link please)
Big hugs
Monika
http://creativewithmonika.blogspot.de/2017/03/sunday-stamps-148-winter-card-with.html
These are both wonderful! Yay for recycling!!
ReplyDelete(FYI you don't have to check the box proving you're not a robot... it still works without doing that.)
Thanks for playing along at Tuesday Morning Sketches!!
Debbie
Debbie's Dash of This and That
super cute cards :) love the sweet images, adorable!
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preeti
Great cards and brilliant idea recycling Christmas cards love the cat in the hat lol-I have recycled them before but only to make Christmas tags will have to look at them in a different light
ReplyDeleteCarol x
I love the idea of repurposing old cards. This card is so cute! Thank you for joining us at Tuesday Morning Sketches.
ReplyDeleteGreat cards using the recycled projects. You are wonderful at doing these. Good luck with the cleaning - I know what that is like and it is very time consuming!!!
ReplyDeleteI love recycling pieces of old Christmas cards. I try to do it every year. Some of them are too pretty to throw away!
ReplyDeleteGreat job! Thanks for joining us for our Think Green challenge at Cut it Up!
Evelyn
http://mylittlecraftblog.wordpress.com
Your recycled cards are fabulous! Thanks for sharing with us at Sweet Stampin' Christmas.
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both cards tickle my fancy, KT! I love the chubby little penguin surrounded by his brightly colored environs, and the cute little blue ear muffs! Sweet designs, and sweeter still sentiments. hugs, de
ReplyDeleteloving both cards and a great idea to recycle cards. Good luck on organising your craftroom, just been there and it took me several hours, lesser on the internet is more time for organising :) , good you do this, sending you lots of hugs and love, cuddles to your furbabys, xxx, Marion
ReplyDeleteWonderful idea - your cards are so cute using recycled Christmas cards! Love that cat!
ReplyDeleteBoth so cute!!! Love the kitty with the hat! Thanks for playing with us at Die Cut Divas.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great idea! So cute!
ReplyDeleteHugs,
Chriss
Gosh your fussy cutting on the second card is brilliant. Great reuse of the cards. Hugs Mrs A.
ReplyDeleteOh, I love both these cute cards and that cat is just the best, hey!!!!! He has me smiling with his pose - love the beautiful blue and the fun little die cuts you added to decorate the card!!!! So sweet!!!! The first card is so fun with the sweet penguin and the fun sentiment - love the happy colours!!!!! Yeah for recycling, my friend!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI haven't been around in Blogland for a week so I'm also catching up on comments since yesterday - oh and what a pain when you have to do the robot thing, hey!!!!!! Enjoy your reorganizing!!!!
Have a great day!!!!
Hugz
Hey! Been so long. Too long since I've been here...these are adorable...that cat! So funny...I love it! Great idea to recycle old cards....
ReplyDeleteOh! I do that too! I love recycling cards!! Your cards are adorable!! The one with the kitty made made laugh!! LOL
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful day,
Migdalia
Crafting with Creative M
Thanks for entering all of my Craftyhazelnut's challenges with your lovely crafting - hope to see you again soon. x
ReplyDeleteCute, cute cards. I've started doing similar so that I don't throw away adorable images! These two are fabulous and the layouts are perfect! Enjoy organizing! Thanks for joining us at Christmas at Sweet Stampin'! Hugs, Gail
ReplyDeleteHi KT Fit Kitty!!! I'm back from my Spring Break/Vacation and thought I would stop by to say HELLO!!! Your cards are adorable.. That penguin are is too cute as is that kitty... so fun! I also checked out your other post... that Bunny is ADORABLE!!!! LOVE the way it looks flying through the air... CUTENESS!!! Happy to be back to blogging.. Have a great day! :)
ReplyDeleteTheresa
Theresa’s Crafty Creations
What fun cards, love that you re-used cards. The Christmas version of Cat in the Hat cracks me up! Thanks for joining us Die Cut Diva's
ReplyDeleteACK, so cute! :)
ReplyDeleteFab recycle cards, it's never to early for Christmas cards. Thank you for joining us at CHNPPC.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card! Thanks for joining us at Unicorn, Claire DTx
ReplyDeleteKitty? Hello, Kitty? Did you get buried under an crapalanche of crafting supplies? Let us know you are okay. Miss you! Hugs, Darnell
ReplyDeleteGreat recycled cards. I haven't managed to create anything after watching Vicky's videos but still intend to try to once I have more time! Hope you got your craft re-organisation all completed. Thank you for joining in the challenge at CHNC for March.
ReplyDeleteGreat cards!
ReplyDeleteThank you soo much for taking part in our "anything goes with optional use lots of green (St. Patrick’s Day)” challenge over at Creatalicious & good luck in the draw.
Hope to see you again in our new challenge as well…
Hugs,
Melanie
(DT-Coordinator Creatalicious Challenges)
(DT Crafty Friends)
(DT The Sketchy Challenges)
PS: Sorry for the late comment, life had been very busy the past couple of weeks…
These are just amazing! Great combinations, very quirky and festive! Love it! Hugs, Autumn
ReplyDeleteWonderful cards! Great way to recycle cards - very festive!
ReplyDeleteLife has been a little crazy the last couple of months, in a good way :-), but it has made me late in my commenting. I'm trying to catch up so I'll be around more often.
Hugs,
Lena
Hello sweet friend : ) I see you have not been posting for a while. I hope you are not still organizing! heehee
ReplyDeleteWhatever you are doing I pray it is fun and that you'll be back with us again soon.
(((Hugs)))
Patti
Love the bold colors and way to recycle cards.
ReplyDeleteHugs Diane
Sigh... crickets chirping.. fingers tapping... I miss your crafty self.... :) Hope all is going well!
ReplyDeleteHi KT! I am dropping by because it has been over 5 months since I heard from you! Hoping you are ok, KT - I miss you and hope that all is well for you both! xx
ReplyDeleteStopping by to say hi friend! Hope all is well!
ReplyDeleteHoping you are fine...missing you!!
ReplyDeleteCheers
Dr Sonia
Great recycling--cute cards!
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