Cat In The Moonlit Window

  

This card is inspired by a YouTube tutorial by Inkylicious.  I didn’t have the window mask/stencil but I did have some mylar sheets so I cut some aperture stencils and their matching masks using my Cricut Maker.  I made square, round and heart apertures and also 2 window apertures, one landscape and one portrait, for Mooch and Mimsy, the Lavinia cat stamps.

  

To start, I used the window mask and drew around it in pencil.  Then, using the acetate from the stamp to help positioning, I then drew another partial window for the window sill and reveal.

After punching a ½” circle from the sticky part of a sticky note, I blended Memento Black ink to shade the sky, leaving it lighter around the moon and shading the windowsill and reveal.

Since I was doing this shading and stamping directly onto the card base, to which I would add a smaller top layer, I masked the edges before stamping the branches using the Inkylicious Mini Branches & Twigs set.

Then I added Mooch (or Mimsy) onto the windowsill, shading the sill with the shadow cast from the cat.  I added some white gel pen to the cat and the leaves for moonlit highlights. Looking at this now, I realise I should have added a few shadows from the branches on the left.

With the back complete, now to do the frame.  I’d cut these out on my Cricut too using the same cutting file as the mask so I knew they’d be a perfect fit.  I trimmed the edges though so there’d be a slim white border around the edge.  Using Distress Oxide in Weathered Wood and a brickwork stencil, I blended some ink in patches around the frame.

To finish, I added a small sentiment panel under the window using MFT Greetings Galore stamp.