Hello Stamplings!
I hope you are doing well. My heart goes out to all those suffering from the tragic floods and fires around the world. This on top of worrying about the Delta variant makes it hard sometimes to feel all that perkiful, but hopefully, my cards will bring a smile.
It's time for the August Twofer Card Challenge and the fun prompt for this month is 🐶Dog/Cat🐱. Here are my Twofers:
The NBUS stamp set my cards have in common is the Tim Holtz "Snarky Cat Christmas CMS416."
Onefer
Most of you know that I'm more of a dog person than a cat person, but I could not resist this snarky set with the bug-eyed cats! For this schparkly Christmas card, the image was stamped in black and clear heat-embossed. The sunshine has bounced off the shine from the embossing and washed out how black and crisp the image is in person. Everything was colored with my Ziggies and winked by my Hammy. The frame is from Avery Elle and I used gold ink through a stencil for the dotty bits.
The sediment comes from the same Snarky Cat set and if you know me really well, you'll be nodding your head right about now. My friends and family are very long-suffering because I'm known for giving them my know-it-all (expert!) opinion without being asked. I've honestly tried not to do it which involves snapping my teeth down firmly on my tongue, but still my words burst forth of their own violation!
Twofer
For my second design, this time for a birthday, I stamped and fussy-cut Mr. Grumpola and stuck him in the corner of an MFT Peek-a-Boo die cut window. Behind him I used a piece of pp and Hammy fashioned him a birthday cap with even more pp. Woooooooo-hoooooooo for us! Okay, that's way too many oooos. Finally, I added an apropopo sediment from MFT. I tried putting googlie-eyes on him, but it didn't have the same perfect effect as those incredible eyes drawn by the stamp artist.
The Final Twofer Card Challenge
I hope you will pull out your favorite dog or cat stamp, die, or stencil and make two different designs for two different occasions to join in the fun at Twofer Card Challenge! The two talented Guest Designers, Vicky and Donna, and the entire Design Team have made beautiful Twofer dog and cat designs to inspire you!
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I especially hope that you can play this month because this will be the last challenge for the Twofer Card Challenge. Between family health problems and priority changes, ending TCC is the best thing for me. It was a good four-year run and I had a lot of fun! My hat goes off to those of you managing card challenges for many, many, many more years than I have!
I gave this decision a lot of thought because I know so many of you love the concept of TCC which made you think hard while stretching your design skills. I'm sorry you will no longer have the TCC monthly prompts, DT inspiration, and fellow players to inspire you, but I sincerely hope you understand my decision and that you will continue on your own to occasionally design cards using the Twofer design concept.
I look forward to seeing your amazing dog and cat Twofers in the final gallery! Mwah!💕
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Enjoy your day! No, seriously, enjoy! Life is too short!
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