Snarky Halloween Cats

The Stampers Anonymous Snarky Halloween Cats is my most recent purchase.  Whilst I don’t send Halloween cards as such, I liked the other sentiments in the set so decided to purchase it anyway.  The thing I really like about these sets is that it’s easy to make quick cards with them as they don’t need much colouring.

To make the backgrounds, I used Distress Stains in Mustard Seed, Lumberjack Plaid and Distress Spritz in Fossilized Amber and Spiced Marmalade for two.  The other two were sprayed with Villainous Potion and Twisted Citron Distress Stains and Wilted Violet and Twisted Citron Spritz.  For the latter panels, I had to wait for the different colours to dry so the colours didn’t get too muddy.

I wanted to use the witches’ hat on one of the panels so I wiped the ink off the sticking up ear before stamping.

The hat then sat nicely on the cat’s head.

To add a little colour, I used a white pastel pencil and coloured pencils.  To make the eyes really stand out, I used a yellow Posca pen.

The sentiments didn’t really stand out on the purple and green backgrounds so I gold heat-embossed them on black cards and tore the edges.  I tried tearing a scrap of the card towards and away from me and found that tearing the card towards me produced a wide border, which I didn’t want.  After tearing the card, I dragged the edges in the Versamark ink pad and added some gold embossing powder and heat set it. 

The sentiment was attached to the card using some thin black foam tape.

The orange cards are perfectly flat for easy posting.

These are the two landscape versions.