Mix It Up #5: Thinking of you Cat

Hello crafty friends!  I have 3 posts today going live at the same time.  Love to Craft, Love to Scrap and Mix It up challenge blogs are doing away with the mid-month inspiration posts, so you get all the goodness in one day and all at the beginning of the month.  Hoping to start your month off with some crafty inspirations.

This is the card I created for the Mix It Up! Challenge, Inlaid Die-Cut.  I don't have a fancy computerized die-cut machine, so everything I do, it's by the old fashion hand crank Big Shot.  I really did a peek-a-boo and little bit of inlaid die-cut technique.  My lesson learn on this project, let the glue dry before sending it through the Big Shot, because it will squeeze it out through the edges.  I wasn't happy about that and I didn't have anymore of the dp I was using, so I scrapped off what I could and hid the rest...sssshhhh.  I'm really wishing I punched out a few more paw prints down the side, but.....it's still I card I think my friend will enjoy.

Here's the inside.  I know that cat looks pitiful, but it's perfect for a worrying friend.  The image/die-cut stamp set is from Tim Holtz.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:

• 2 Crafty Critter Crazies: #6 Anything Goes w/critter
• AAA Cards: #98 Creatures Great or Small
• Crafty Animals: #6 Anything Goes
• SUYP (Show Us Your Pussies): #22 Anything Goes

stamps: Tim Holtz: Cat Chat
paper: SU, Bo Bunny: dp, the Paper Studio: white
die-cut: MFT: circle stax 1 & stax 2, sentiment strip, Tim Holtz: Cat Chat, paw punch
embellishment: twine