This is called Picnic Time I have colored her with my Copics and high lighted with white gel pen. For the card I started with a white base, then all of the pattern papers oh my... I LOVE these! This is from K&Company's Cut n- paste collection, really fun new collection you are seeing a lot of cards from there from me aren't you? I inked the edges of all of the pieces, including a Martha Stewart Lace Doily border out of white. I sewed down everything. I wish now I had made more of the recipe from the patter paper show, but I had it all ready sewed together, so there wasn't much I could do with it. The sentiment is computer generated in pink.

I started out by stamping my Sarah Kay image and coloring her with my Copics and cut her out with my Fiskars fingertip craft knife. I then stamped the Magnolia Brick wall stamp and colored it with Copics as well, then cut it out. I cut a piece of the cloud pattern paper from Cosmo Cricket and pulled lots of my Catseye inks and my Rubbernecker Kitty Kit Cause for a scene stamps, these are fabulous little nature items to build a background… I adore these! I worked them, and created the tree and the ground in lots of colors.

My giraffe head is attached with glue dots, then the wall with pop dots. The Sarah Kay is then attached 1/2 with pop dots and 1/2 with adhesive so she looks as if she is standing on the corner of the wall. I added a few tiny Prima flowers to the grass, and then needed a sign for the Zoo… otherwise we wouldn’t know why there was a giraffe with his head over the wall.

Some may recognize the tin! It's usually kind of like a turquoise blue - I spray painted the tin first with metal gold and than added the K&Company paper to the top and glued the ribbons on. I hope I've been able to inspire you to not only use those fabulous images on cards.. they make fabulous altered gift items as well

I like this Sarah Kay stamp really much. I love the cute little kitty and this time I’ve added some butterflies to the image. What do you think?

stamps: Rose’s Garden by Stampavie, LeLo-Design, Art Impressions papers: Bazzill CS, Chatterbox PP inks: Ancient Page Chocolate & Wisteria accessories: Spellbinders, Ribbon, QK Photocorners, Retroflower & Leaf Punch, White Gelpen Albrecht Duerer Watercolor Pencils