A Quick Kitty

So NOT!  I wanted to do the SCS Fan club sketch challenge.  I saw a red, white and black color challenge and then today's Cat's Pajamas challenge is to use a stamp set with the word "love" or "heart" in the set.  So that meant I could use my brand new kitty set and my Valentine's Bo Bunny paper.  Since there isn't much coloring on the stamp it seemed to me that I should have been able to whip this off in a half hour or less.  HA!  A couple hours later I was winding down on this one. 

First I had a different size card base started but didn't like the way the pieces were going to fit on it so I switched to a square base with a piece of red card stock.  Well I had a different piece going across, probably the back of one of these and it was red with little hearts on it and it clashed with the red card stock so I went looking for a different red and spent way too much time doing that before I decided to switch to a black card stock base.  Then I didn't like the print with the red background.  I put the ribbon down flat and was ready to let it go that way but then I thought it would be more fun to fold/pleat the ribbon across so that took a little more time, I'm not very nimble or fast with that technique but it looks really good to me so I took the time for that.   Lots of glitches taking lots of unanticipated time not that I had any pressing appointments...

don't forget the inside


So here's the deets:
stamp - The Cat's Pajamas "It Had To Be Mew"
ink - Brilliance "Graphite Black" for the image and Memento "Tuxedo Black" for the sentiment
paper - unknown red and black card stock; white Recollections cs for scalloped border and inside heart; My Favorite Things white "Perfect Panel" cs for stamp; Bo Bunny "Crush Sugar", "Crush Darling"; "Crush Flirt"
miscellaneous - the Cat's Pajamas "Heart Trio" cut ups; Nestibilities heart and scalloped heart, oval and big scalloped oval; My Favorite Things "scallop" die-namics; key charm; TCP red and white divine twine; TCP red glitzy glitter; Queen and Co. pearls; Stampin' Up corner punch

Here's the challenges:
The Cat's Pajamas TCPTUES143 - use a TCP set with the work "love" or "heart(s)" in it
Splitcoast Stampers January - Love Is In the Air - Sketch DDSKETCH0111
Going Grey - red, white and black
Really Reasonable Ribbons #16 - Heart theme
Pile It On #4 - Love Is In the Air
Paper Play Week 3 Back to Black
Sugar Creek Hollow - Splash of color (Black and White and a splash of another color)
Cupcake Inspirations #95 - cupcake with white icing with little hearts

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