Stampin' Up! Nine Lives for Amy's Inkin' Krew Love Themed Blog Hop

January 2019...wow! You are in for 12 wonderful installments of the Inkin' Krew themed hops. This month Amy has given us "Love" as our theme. We can interpret that any way we want and we can use any products we want.

I have decided to use the Nine Lives stamp set from the new 2019 Occasions catalog.

If you follow my blog, you know we lost our beloved Martini (Tini) on December 22. She definitely left paw prints on our hearts. We are hoping the Lord will bring another polydactyl kitty into our lives who likes to be held and only scratches at the scratching posts! Tini never scratched at anything other than those. BUT she did not like to be held even though she was loving! They all have their own personalities, that's for sure.

There are several "Critter" challenges out there so I thought, "Why not play along in honor of Tini?"

• 2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge #22 and
• The Paper Players PP423 - A Theme Challenge from Ann

My card base is Grapefruit Grove with a mat of Calypso Coral and panels of Grapefruit Grove Gingham DSP and Whisper White card stock. 

I die cut the edged strip, from a Whisper White scrap, with a die from the Delicate Lace Edgelits Dies and glued it to the back of the Calypso Coral mat. 

The kitty is a two-step stamp. Using Basic Gray ink, I stamped the outline of her after I had stamped the striped body. I tried stamping the outline first, then the body but my way seemed to get the best result. I punched the kitty out with the cat punch and mounted her with Dimensionals on the next-to-largest Stitched Frame circle die. I also used Dimensionals on the back of the circle to adhere it to the panels. Before I did that, I stamped the sentiment in Calypso Coral and the hearts in Grapefruit Grove inks on the Whisper White panel. 

I adhered the panels to the mat and wrapped a piece of Calypso Coral Ombre Ribbon between the two panels to hide the seam and taped the ends to the back of the mat. Then I adhered the mat to the card base. Fini! I want to thank Janet Wakeland for her inspiration.

I have not decided what I'm going to do with the inside. This card could be for my son's birthday, January 17, and perhaps his present will be a real live kitty. That would ease his heartache! His true love does have four paws!

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Measurements and Partial List of Product Used:

Card Base: 4 1/4" x 11", scored and folded at 5 1/2"
Calypso Coral Mat: 3 1/4" x 5 1/4"
Gingham DSP: 1" x 5"
Whisper White sentiment panel: 1 3/4" x 5"
Scrap of Whisper White for cat
Scrap of Grapefruit Grove for circle
Lace Edge Whisper White Scrap: 1" x 5 1/4" long
Ribbon: 6 1/2"

Nine Lives Photopolymer Stamp Set [148703] $16.00	Cat Punch [144666] $18.00	Delicate Lace Edgelits Dies [147053] $29.00
Gingham Gala 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper [148554] $11.00	Calypso Coral 1/4" Ombre Ribbon [144235] $7.00

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