caardvarks Challenge cards (& some etsy digi shoppin')

A quick post, sorry. Charles & I have big bad colds.

"UGH" about sums it up. LOL ;o)

Today, a couple of colourful Caardvarks Core-dinations cards with
cute characters & SRM sentiment stickers.

(Say that five times fast.) hehehe

These critter kids are digital images that I purchased from
two different artists on etsy...

The Kitty Cats Digital image above is by Kimprints (her store is here on etsy)
I embossed her on white cardstock painted with Matte Medium.
The kitty was coloured to match Mouse:


(She's getting so big! Must be the super kitty vitamins we gave her to
try & counteract any deficiency from the worms...) :-)



Fur texture on the cartoon "Mouse" cat
was made by scratching the paper with a paper piercing tool.

To jazz up her kitty costume, I doodled on flowers & coloured her in Copic markers...
pierced holes around the face & hem & stitched it with gray embroidery thread.



The patterned paper is digital as well, from TADA (on etsy here.)

For textured-distressed digital paper,
I covered the printed paper in Mod Podge tissue paper:

1. Print the digital paper pattern & Heat set with a heat gun
2. Brayer the Mod Podge on (to minimize colour bleed.)
3. Then add white tissue paper over the wet Mod Podge.

(I also cut one of the flowers & some leaves out of the digital paper.)



Monkey Kid is drawn by HYCJ on etsy (the store is here.)

& this is more patterned digital paper from TADA (TracyAnnDigitalArt)

The card bases are made with Core-dinations cardstock
from their Ebony & Ivory collection pack.

The SRM sticker sentiments can be found here.

Hope your day is a colourful one!