Craft Room Challenge " Felines " and Just Add Ink " Just Add ......a Die Cut "

Although I am in the middle of packing for my trip to London I couldn't help but have a peep at what was going on with all you crafters this weekend.  As usual I popped by The Craft Room  to see what the next fortnights theme was. The  lovely Zoe has chosen the theme  which is  " Felines " now any one who knows Zoe knows that she has a passion for these furry little creatures, she owns three  " imps " as she calls them and her blog always has a feline of the day at the end of her posts ! How could I not take part !

The front of the card only has feline related words but if you open it.........................

my little cat is sitting all proud ( as they do ) right on top of the sentiment ! Don't  know if you can see what with my terrible photography but when the card is closed the rats tail can be seen protruding from the side . Hope this is feline enough for you Zoe !

Why not pop over to the The Craft Room to see the fabulous inspirational pieces by the DT whom I have to say are a rather nice bunch of ladies and all  of whom are very talented indeed !

While I was having a little nose around blog land I came across a fabulous and new to me challenge site,  Just Add Ink , I have to say I was very impressed by the DT who's work was both beautiful and inspiring  and as soon as I have posted this I will be going back to take a closer look. Their  theme this week is " Just add ........a Die Cut " I do love my inks but I equally love my die cuts too so I thought I would have a go here as well !

This card was a bit of an experiment in more ways than one.  I took an image from Designer Digitals and printed it onto parchment paper. I used my sewing machine to adhere the image to the card a first for me and it shows ! I then die cut some leaves with the tattered florals die by Tim Holtz , I embossed one and then dabbed  it with a little green distress ink to give it a little emphasis . I then placed  it inside the little pocket that I had created on the  front of the card  you can just about see the leaf  showing through. I used an eyelet and ribbon to close up the edge so that the leaf wouldn't fall out ! I quite like the effect and have to say it looks a lot better in real life !

Have decided to throw caution to the wind and enter this card as well even though the photo is not perfect ! Here I once again used one of my Tim Holtz on the edge dies to create the borders and some DPs from my stash ( don't know who's they are the cover has come off ! ) I inked the edges with Ranger distress inks , a bit of embossing and another eyelet and some ribbon ( looks like I am going through an eyelet phase )  I took and old button and used some silver stickles on it and added it to the top of one of my trees , and there you have it. I hope the lovely ladies at Just Add Ink will like it too !  Please pop over and visit them I think you will be pleasantly surprised as I was by their amazing work.

Anyway that's enough gabbing from me I do have a suitcase to pack you know !!

Take care

Marie