Simon Says Stamp | With Enough Coffee Anything Is Possible. Cat-Detective Card

With Enough Coffee Anything Is Possible – this sentiment from Simon’s February ’17 kit inspired me to create this card. I wanted to use a smart and quirky image to convey the meaning of the sentiment. Following my example of a “Pretend Peacock” card I decided to create a Sherlock Holmes kind of cat. Because, well, with enough coffee, anything IS possible.

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CARD DETAILS

I used one of the cat images from the Christmas Cats stamp set to create a main character for my project. You can also use a dog image if you are a dog person or any other critter, really. I did struggle for a bit as the coffee cup I wanted to use is a bit too large for the cat, but because I couldn’t really find any critter image bigger than the cat, I went with what I had.

I also stamped a scarf and I knew I needed to add a fun hat to complete the look. I didn’t have stand-alone hat images like that in my stash, but I did find a perfect hat in the Critter Costume Party and so I stamped that image, die-cut and and cut the bottom part out using scissors.

I also wanted my cat to wear glasses, but again, I didn’t have a perfect stamp to use for that, so I looked for a circle and a curve and used those to stamp a monocle, I think that really added a lot to the whole “detective cat” kind of look.

I stamped an oversized coffee cup and added corrugated sleeve (stamp on the back of corrugated paper and cut it out following the line on the back to avoid doing stamping on the front).

I used Copic markers to do my coloring (I went with my usual color combos – I am listing exact colors I used below) and also added little coffee stickers onto the sleeve.

I stamped “With Enough Coffee Anything Is Possible” sentiment using black ink onto Simon’s Sea Glass cardstock (it matched in color to the monocle). I wanted to add some additional stamping to the background, but I didn’t want to do any more coloring to keep the attention on the detective cat. So I simply stamped additional cat images using Simon’s Dark Chocolate ink framing the main panel.

After I foam mounted this panel onto an A2 top folding white card base I also adhered several clear droplets in 2 two sizes – 4mm and 6mm and that finished my card.

P.S. I failed to mention I added a generous amount of glossy accents to the monocle. Unfortunately, glossy attached itself to the hat, too. If you plan to re-create this card, add glossy accents first, wait for it to dry and later foam mount the hat on top of the cat’s head.

SUPPLIES

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