Papertrey Ink Make it Monday Challenge #180

To continue my goal of participating in more challenges I put together this card for Papertrey Ink’s Make it Monday Challenge.  The challenge required the use of a Papertrey Ink product and paper weaving!

I started off by stamping the lines from the Ombre Builders set onto three different pieces of scrap Strathmore watercolor paper in Salty Ocean, Peacock Feathers, and Mowed Lawn distress ink.  I knew I was going to use the cat die cut so I wanted the scraps of paper to almost look like woven yarn.  After the ink dried I cut it into length-wise strips of varying widths.  I laid the strips down vertically and then used a piece of post-it tape to hold them together while I wove in the horizontal strips.  I wasn’t quite sure how I was going to lay it on the card so I didn’t want to permanently adhere it together.

After weaving I decided that I was going to keep half of the edges clean and then fussy cut the other edges to follow the design of the ombre stamp.  I adhered the woven piece to the corner of my card base.  I used the Strathmore watercolor paper because I wanted the texture of watercolor paper as the background.

Next I die-cut the cat from the Cat’s Meow set using the same watercolor paper.  I own the coordinating stamp set but decided that I didn’t want the hard lines of the stamp set to show so I watercolored the entire die-cut.  I used the Derwent Inktense watercolor pencils to create my calico cat and after coloring I went over the cat with a damp paintbrush to blend the colors.  To finish the cat I used a copic .3 black multiliner to draw in her eyes, nose, and whiskers.

I used foam mounting tape to adhere the cat to the front of the card but felt it was missing something.  I took a leftover scrap from the ombre strips and die-cut the yarn ball.  I think it helps to tie together the paper-weaving design and the cat.

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