Brrr - Cat Lovers Christmas Challenge

Hello, everybody! Before I get started, I would like to welcome my newest follower - Barb Finnical - thank you so much for joining me!

All month I have been taking part in the Cat Lovers Christmas Challenge at Christmas Kickstart, and sadly the challenge will end on October 31.  You still have time to join the fun and inspiration, so head over and check it out!  You will remember that this challenge has been organized to honour Janis Woolbright from Her Peaceful Garden, who hosted the annual Cat Lovers Hop and who sadly passed away in January 2023.  RIP, Janis, I know you would have enjoyed this month so much!

Today's card was also inspired by Let's Play Tic-Tac-Toe with Gail, which is Day 8 of the challenge. Gail has put together a fun tic-tac-toe board featuring some of Janis's cards to inspire us.  For this card, I chose the diagonal line of Die-cut, Tag, and Stamp. Please scroll down to see Gail's inspirational game board.

This adorable kitten is from Newton's Nook (one of the challenge's generous sponsors), and this is my first time inking it up.  The set is called A Kitten Christmas.  I had fun colouring this kitty with markers, and then I added some sparkle to her hat with Star Dust Stickles.  I fussy-cut the kitten so I could pop her up on foam tape.  The Brrr sentiment is also from Newton's Nook, from the Snowflake Roundabout stamp set.

Nearly all items for this card were snippets/scraps/leftovers:  the patterned paper, the sparkly red bow, the torn white landscape, and the embossed blue tag.  Even the snowflake gems were left out on my desk as I had intended to use them on my previous card.  Sorry I didn't take a photo of the snippets before adhering everything, totally forgot.

Other products used:

Dies: Die-cuts were leftovers but I looked up the brands:  STAMPlorations Tags 1 Nesting Dies CUTplorations (tag), Paper Smooches Wise Dies - Bows (bow)  
Embossing folder: Tag was already embossed but it's Die'sire Embossalicious Let it Snow
Patterned paper:  Lawn Fawn scraps 
Snowflake gems:  My old Dollarama stash

Here's Gail's Tic-Tac-Toe board of Janis's inspiration cards. Hop over to Day 8 to get a closer look:

I would like to join the following challenges, for a total of 10:
ABC Christmas U for Use it Up (scraps and leftovers described above) UE

Allsorts 752 Embossing Heat or Dry 1/3

Cat Lovers Christmas Challenge - Christmas Kickstart October Cats 6/6 C10
Cat Lovers Challenge Day 8 Let's Play Tic-Tac-Toe with Gail (die-cut, tag, stamp) 3/3

Creative Fingers 264 AG 1/3
Die-Cut Divas Layering Die, or Layer a Die-cut on another Die-cut (bow on tag) 3/4
DL.ART October Linky AG UE
Pixie's Snippet Playground 466  Snippets as described above 1E C10
Show Us Your Pussycats October Furrything Goes UE
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday AG 1/5

Janis enjoyed making everyone smile by sharing cat memes/cartoons, so here are a few more for you. Enjoy!

Thank you for being here and for looking at everything I shared today. Wishing you a wonderful day with many blessings!