Sneak Peek: Cat Antics Stamps, Rounded Rectangle Mat & Window Dies

Hello, and welcome to day 2 of our Spring Sneak Peek Week!  All this week I am sharing cards showcasing our newest collection which will be available for purchase this Friday!

Card No. 1: I've always had a soft spot for cats, so I'm extra happy to share cards today using our darling new Cat Antics Stamps. This set comes with 11 unique cat images, so I love this grid-style card, which allowed me to showcase nearly half of them. I started by cutting an A2-sized cardstock panel twice using our Window Trio Heart Landscape Dies. I then filled behind each heart using tone-on-tone swatches of our new diagonal grid print from our Background Basics 2 Stamps in pink, fuchsia, and aqua. I added some of the kitty accessories from the set, like the yarn ball, mouse toy, and food bowl, coloring them to match.  I then heat embossed the punny sentiment "pawsitive vibes" in the 6th heart in the top, right corner. I have a teenage daughter for whom this card will be perfect. Her generation is all about "chill vibes."

Card No. 2: For my next card, I used the cute cardboard box from the set, adding two of the peeking kitties from the set and three other cats outside the box from our new Cat Antics Stamps. As a backdrop, I created a living room scene. I added "wallpaper" using a baby blue floral print from our Spring Fever Paper pack. I then used the wood floor border from our Sprawling Surfaces Stamps along the bottom of my card front and added a thin strip of white cardstock between the two to form my base molding. I added an armchair from our Cozy Christmas Stamps, stamped it onto a piece of red gingham-patterned paper from our Joyful Holiday Paper pack, and fussy cut it out with my scissors. I added three small windows around my chair using the window from our Sweet Treats House Add-on Dies. Lastly, I heat embossed the sentiment "I'm furever grateful" onto our Brilliant Banner 4 Dies, which had been cut out using a red polka-dot print from our Polka-dot Parade Paper.

Card No. 3: For this next card featuring the Cat Antics Stamps, I wanted the kitty holding the heart-shaped yarn and the other yarn balls piled into the cardboard box for the set to take center stage. I mounted them onto a stitched Rounded Rectangle Mat, which I backed with one of the slightly larger negative spaces left over from our Rounded Rectangle Window Dies. I then added a red and pink striped background behind them using our Diagonal & Straight Stripes Stencils. I created my own custom greeting by spelling out the word "wool" using our Chloe Alphabet Dies, stamping the word "you" from our Sea You Soon Stamps, "be mine" from our Love Birds Stamps, and the question mark from our Silly Sloths Stamps.

Card No. 4: Up next is another card inspired by the ball of yarn from the Cat Antics Stamps. This time I inked up large pastel dots of color across my entire background using small ink blending brushes and Distress inks. I then dried the ink really well with my heat gun, before stamping and heat embossing the balls of yarn in the center of each dot at different random angles to form my own handmade patterned paper. I really love the results!

For my focal point, I put the kitty holding the fall of yarn inside the box by cutting along the stamped edge with my X-acto knife. I framed her with a pink Stitched Heart 2 Die colored with the same Picked Raspberry ink used in my background. Lastly, I tied together my little scene with our Brilliant Banner 2 Dies, which I stamped and heat embossed with a greeting from the Cat Antics set.

Card No. 5:  For my next card, I created a paned window from a piece of white cardstock by die-cutting the same stitched rectangle four times using our new Rounded Rectangle Window Dies. I glued a piece of acetate behind the window panes and added foam tape on the back of my panel around the perimeter so I could add some small iridescent star confetti to create a shaker card. 

I then colored three cats from the Cat Antics Stamps and placed them inside a window box, which I cut from woodgrain textured cardstock. I didn't have a die for a box of this size so I just cut an angle from a strip of cardstock on one side and then flipped the triangle piece I cut off to use as a template to cut the other side at the same angle. For my flowers, I used all the different leaves and flowers from our Spring Garden Dies, inking them up on one side using finger daubers with distress inks. For my greeting, I heat embossed a sentiment from the Meow & Furever Stamps onto our Brilliant Banner 4 Dies, cut from pink cardstock.

I've only scratched the surface today on how our new Rounded Rectangle Mat Dies and Rounded Rectangle Window Dies can be used. I found myself turning to these versatile dies for so many cards, which I will share much more later in the week.

Card No. 6: For my last card of the day, I colored the three little peeking tuxedo kitties from the Cat Antics Stamps. Black and white cats are my favorite so I couldn't resist creating a card dedicated to them. Plus, it made for a fun, bold color scheme when paired with hot pink. I used a row of three stitched hearts from our Window Trio Heart Portrait Dies and Window Trio Heart Landscape Dies and heat embossed them with my greeting by combining the "pawsititve vibes" phrase from the Cat Antics set with the word "sending" from our Panda Party Stamps. I then added hot pink tone-on-tone strips along the top and bottom using the print from our new Background Basics 2 Stamps. To dress it up, I added a stitched edge and ric-rac trim edge with our Slimline Basic Border Dies. Lastly, I embellished it with tiny hearts from our Basic Mini Shape Dies 2, which were topped with some Stickles Twinkle Glitter and set aside to dry.

That wraps up today's sneak peek. I'm so happy you joined me today! I'd love to give a $50 gift code to one lucky winner using the Rafflecopter below. Our daily contests will run through Saturday, January 11th at Midnight PST with winners announced here on Sunday, January 12th.a Rafflecopter giveaway

Here's a closer look at our new Cat Antics Stamps & Dies, Rounded Rectangle Mat Dies, and Rounded Rectangle Window Dies used today, which will be available for purchase on Friday, January 10th.

 

Other Supplies Used:

Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber Shop at: Sunny Studio	Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Polka-dot Parade 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Basic Mini Shape Dies 2 Shop at: Sunny Studio
Sweet Treats House Add-on Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sea You Soon Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Basic Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Meow & Furever Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Stitched Heart 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cozy Christmas Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cozy Christmas Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Joyful Holiday Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio
Panda Party Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hayley Lowercase Alphabet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Fever Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Brilliant Banner 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Love Birds Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sprawling Surfaces Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Garden Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Brilliant Banner 4 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Diagonal & Straight Stripes Stencils Shop at: Sunny Studio	Background Basics 2 Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Window Trio Heart Landscape Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts White Detail Shop at: Sunny Studio
Silly Sloths Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stickles Twinkle Glitter Shop at: Sunny Studio	VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio