Purr-fect Pop-up

My card this week is one I made for a cat-loving friend.  The stamp set was a limited edition to celebrate Visible Image’s 20^th birthday called Purr-fect Birthday and I love the silhouettes and fun sentiments.  It’s a great set to use for quick cards and brilliant for those tricky male cards too.

For background, I blended blue and red inks through the Squared stencil.

Whilst that was drying, I stamped the cat in the box onto white and kraft card.  I added a little shading to the brown box and then fussy cut them both, chopping the cat off the brown box.  The brown box was then glued to the white one, with the cat peeking out of the top.

Returning to the background, I replaced the stencil and used a fine black pen to draw around the squares.  The various cats were then stamped into the big squares.

I stamped some paw prints onto the other squares and then added the sentiment.  Each of the cats’ eyes were finished with clear Nuvo Drops to make them shine.

For the inside, I wanted the cat in the box to pop-up when the card opened so I cut a ¾” x 3” piece of card and scored it at ¾” intervals.  The two end squares were glued to the inside of the card blank next to the score line to create the pop-up mechanism.

To finish the outside, I simply glued the panel to a square of black card and then onto my card blank.

Inside, I stamped another peeking kitty and attached the cat in the box to the mechanism.