Card with interior scene for CC157

Hi there! For this week’s Color Challenge (CC157) at the MFT Blog, I created a card with a cute interior scene and a beautiful color combination.

The idea

The first idea that I had was to use a word die to create a bold sentiment with a shadow effect.

Then I went through a box of left over elements from previous projects to see if there was anything that I could use. I grabbed two die cut kitties from the Mini Meows stamp set and a 8 3/4″ x 5 6/8″ cardbase of Kraft Card Stock and went to work…

Cenital view of card with interior scene created for Color Challenge 157 at the MFT Blog.

The painting

The cats made me think of friendship, or love and I decided to create a little painting with the frame from the Trendy Tag Die-namics. I die cut it once out of Milk Chocolate Prestige Card Stock and once out of Summer Splash Card Stock, backed with Stick-It adhesive.

Close up of card with interior scene created for CC157.

Next, I die cut a strip of grass out of Tropical Teal Prestige Card Stock and trimmed it with the frame die from before. When assembling my “painting”, I wasn’t convinced by the white border around the cats, so I fussy cut them. This meant that I had to chop their whiskers. To make the cats whole again, I stamped them with Extreme Black Hybrid Ink on the background and adhered the fussy cut, colored ones on top.

The wallpaper

For the wallpaper, I chose the gorgeous Baccarat Background. I stamped it with Milk Chocolate Premium Dye Ink on Kraft Card Stock and trimmed the panel with the largest die from the A2 Stitched Rectangle STAX Set 1 Die-namics. Thanks to the pattern, it was really easy to adhere all of the elements perfectly straight.

The sentiment

I loved the “Meow and You Forever” sentiment from the Mini Meows stamp set and decided to partially emboss it on a strip of Tropical Teal Prestige Card Stock. To complete the phrase, I die cut the word “forever” out of Smooth White Card Stock using the Bitty Banner Alphabet Die-namics.

Cute card with interior scene in kraft, dark brown, teal and aqua.

To finish the card, I added some matching enamel dots. I placed them forming two overlapping triangles. That way the eye is drawn to the painting as well as to the sentiment. I hope my interior scene card has inspired you to participate in CC157. Can’t wait to see what you come up with!