'Feline' fine

I haven't made any gel prints recently, and one of the reasons is because I have a whole pile of prints I need to use. So I pulled out the pile, gathered some dies, and got to work. Today's gel print cards, which are pretty meow-velous, are made with the Feline die from Penny Black.

Both this first card and the next one are the same layout, just different gel prints for the backgrounds. I wanted to make birthday cards, so I chose two prints that were fun, bright colors. For each card, I cut the print using a stitched rectangle die to cover the entire front of an A2 card and glued it onto a white card base. I cut the Feline die out of black card stock and adhered it in the middle of the card. I found a small party hat die in my stash (this one is from the No Drama Lies from Taylored Expressions -- it's the perfect size) and cut a hat out of five different card stock colors that coordinated with the gel print. I added a little Wink of Stella to the hats and then glued them on the die-cut cats. I finished each card with a few coordinating sequins.

I thought about adding a "happy birthday" sentiment to the front of these cards, but I couldn't find a style or layout that I really liked. So I decided to leave the sentiment to just the inside of the cards. (I think the one I used said "Live it up on your birthday and all year long.")

I had the negative pieces left from the first two cards, so I layered them together and made one more card. For this card I used a smaller stitched rectangle die to cut the gel print background. Then I glued the die-cut pieces to the remaining part of the same gel print and trimmed it along the edges of the black card stock. I attached the focal piece slightly above the middle of the card and added one tiny white clay heart between two of the cats. Finally, I stamped the sentiment on a scratch piece of white card stock, cut it into a strip, and added it near the lower right corner of the card.

Stayed tuned for more gel print cards. Thanks for stopping by!