Gold Embossed Cats

Hi there, Bibi here with a few quick, easy and fun techniques for you to try out!

I became so inspired by Judi Kauffman's Fifteen Cats the other day that I whipped up a few of my own. 

Meeeow!

All my cats are embossed with gold on watercolour paper. Some of them are coloured in using watercolour pencils (top row), which gives you control of the colours, and some are sprayed with ink (bottom row) on wet watercolor paper - which gives you less control, but it's fast, cool, and ridiculously easy! 

When I use watercolour pencils, I like to scribble some colour on the side of the paper and pick colour up with a waterpen or paint brush. That way I can also mix the colours before adding them to my stamped image.

This is what my sheet of ink sprayed cats looked like before I cut the images out. I love how the colours mix and blend together, usually in a very surprising manner leaving some interesting patterns. I like letting go, having little or no control of what happens with the colours when they take on a life on their own.






I also spray inked a sheet of watercolour paper that I used to cut out these swirls (a Tim Holtz die):





Watercolour cats and more ink sprayed swirls. The sentiment is stamped on some left over paper from the swirl sheet.

I found this piece of pink dry embossed cardstock with hearts in my box with scraps. The bright green piece above it was white cardstock that I coloured with the same watercolur pencil I had used on the cat's eyes and the stars. The small black circles are made with an office hole punch.

All the stamps used on these cards are from Rubber Dance. 
Night Cat: http://rubberdance.com/celestial.html

Sentiment stamps: http://rubberdance.com/sentiments.html

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Thank you for stamping by!

XOX,
Bibi

To find the stamps used in this article, and many more, visit the Rubber Dance website: www.rubberdance.com. 
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