Tuesday, September 13, 2022

A Hot Chocolate Kind of Day

Hello, everyone!  Today I'm sharing a winter holiday card!  This adorable kitty is Reece Burmese Christmas Kitty from Digi Doodle Studios.  I coloured the image with markers, die-cut with a pinpoint square (Memory Box), and inked around the edge of the image with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink.  I also added Diamond Stickles to the fur trim of the hat.

I used patterned paper (Doodlebug Polar Pals), die-cut with a stitched rectangle (Gina Marie Designs) and pinpoint square (Memory Box Pinpoint Square Layers), as well as a ricrac die-cut (Your Next Stamp Ric Rac), and snowflake die-cut (Lawn Fawn Stitched Snowflakes) according to the sketch below.  To finish the card, I stamped a sentiment (Newton's Nook Cup of Cocoa) and adhered a few purple gems.

Here's the sketch from The Outlawz Wednesday Sketch Challenge that inspired my card design:


I would also like to join the following challenges:
Caffeinated Christmas 9 Candy or Cookie plus Coffee, Tea, or Hot Cocoa 

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas 611 AG optional Use Patterned Paper UE
Creative Fingers 238 AG 3/3
Dare 2B Artzy September Animals 1/3
Dies R Us 200 AG 1/3 (used Memory Box and Lawn Fawn brand)
Digi Choosday 37 AG 1/2
Digi Doodle Studios 53 Add Metal/Sparkle (
sparkly die-cuts and Stickles, plus metal-backed gems)
DL.ART September Linky AG UE
Gem of a Challenge 19 AG 2/2
Jan's Digi Stamps AG 2/5
Passion for Markers 658 Use Favourite Tool/Embellishment (favourite tool is Cuttlebug for die-cutting and favourite embellishment is gems)
Polkadoodles 37 AG 2/2
Sheepski Designs 66 Feature a Creature 1/3
Show Us Your Pussycats 81 Furrything Goes UE
Simon Says Stamp Monday Die Cuts 1/5
The Paper Funday AG with Thinking of You 4/6
The 12 Months of Christmas Link-up 92 AG w Fur, Fluff, Feathers, or Fins
Through the Craft Room Door Aug. 30 AG 4/4
Winter Wonderland Christmas Animals 1/3
Word Art Wednesday 559-560 AG w Uplifting Sentiment wk2 4/5

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

26 comments:

jimlynn said...

Pretty, pretty card and I love the colors and shine to this.
Lynn

Liz said...

Cute card Kitty, I love the sparkle. xx

AndreaNorris said...

Total cuteness, love the colours and glitter :)
Andrea x

Alice (scrAPpamondo) said...

Ooohhh... Such fabulous colours on this card!!! The patterned paper looks so special with the diecut panels and the glittered purple!! The kitty is so cute and fun peeking out of the hat!! :D A very beautiful design, well done with the take of the sketch!
Big hugs dear friend, hope you are well and happy!

Catnip and Kitty Whiskers said...

Oh, I love this!!! Such pretty colors; love how you used the kitty on your card!

Donna Walls said...

Great card design and colors! Thanks for sharing with us at the Jan's Digi Stamps Challenge and we look forward to seeing more of your lovely designs soon.
Donna xx

Barbara Godden said...

Beautiful background papers to design your card around, the image is adorable and great take on the sketch. Love it all. (especially the colours) Take care.

Donna said...

Fabulous card, great colors, image and glitter! Every day is a chocolate day for me!

Donna said...

And thank you for sharing your lovely card with us at Jan's Digi Stamp challenge, hope to see you next month too!

Melanie Hungerford said...

So cute, I just love the colors you used! Thanks for joining us at the Paper Funday Challenge!

~amy~ said...

Super cute and love the colors!
Thanks for joining us at the Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge!

Debi said...

Very cute digi image. Love the papers you chose.

Andrea W said...

Your color choices are very pretty! I love the adorable image and glittery accents. I'm looking forward to those hot chocolate days!

Ella's Design said...

Great paper choices for this pretty, non traditional Christmas card, Kitty...
Thanks for playing along with us at Passion for Markers this week, Lisa x

KraftyKoolKat said...

Really cute and a lovely colour palette.
Hugs
Cathy
xxxx

Lena said...

Hot chocolate kinda days are the very best in the Winter :-) Your kitty looks all snuggled up ready to enjoy his milk and cookies :-) Beautiful card, Kitty!
Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Hugs,
Lena

Suzanne H said...

Love all that glitter! Such a cute image. I love the little snowman cup. CUTE!

Julie said...

Gorgeous card - love my die cutter too! Thanks for joining in my challenge at Passion for Markers this week, good luck! Juliex

Cards By MI said...

Such cute card. Love your sweet image! Thanks for playing with us over at Passion for Markers.
Love n hugs
Marie

DIANA L. said...

Adorable!! I love the scarf
Thank you for entering the DL.ART SEPTEMBER 2022 Linky challenge.
Have a blessed day
DIANA L.

SarahR said...

Hi there, how sweet is that little cat! Fabulous card - love your colour combos and all the sparkle. Thanks for joining in with us at Colour Crazy Craft. Sarah - DT

Tangii said...

I just love hot cocoa kind of days! This is so cute and your kitty looks all set for a great snack!

Margo said...

Such a sweet card
Thank you so much for joining us at Colour Crazy Craft Challenge
Greetz
Margo DT

Fikreta said...

its super cute card!
Thank you for playing at SUYP-cats only challenge!
Hope to see you again!
Good luck!
Fiki

Sari / Granne said...

Gorgeous colors and pretty image, love those sparkling details. Thank you for joining SheepSki Designs "Feature a creature" -challenge, I hope to see you joining in our new Autumn challenge also.

Shelly Schmidt said...

Great colors and how cool is the glitter as well! Beautifully created. Thanks for joining us for the challenge at Jan's Digital Stamps!