Three Kings Day Kitty

You may have seen my New Year's post about our grape tradition; well, there's another Spanish tradition we always followed while I was growing up: Three Kings Day. You can see the cards I've made previously for this holiday here on my blog. This year, I focused on the tradition of leaving your shoes out for the Kings to leave presents in.

I thought it would be fun to use this "Party Animal" rubber stamp by Strawberry Kisses/Crafter's Companion.

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I stamped the image four times: on white, shiny gray, gold, and silver papers (all purchased at Michaels). The silver base piece was cut/emobossed with a Pagemaps die. I added some detail on the kitty with a Warm Gray Copic, and then covered it with white flocking by rubbing it through my Xyron sticker machine (I did retrace it with an XS Pitt pen. The confetti & streamers with colored with a Wite-Out pen and also retraced with the black pen. The gold shoe was painted with gold Stickles. The sentiment is from a Dilo En Español set and was heat-embossed in detail gold (Stampendous).

Although difficult to see in this photo, there are three die-cut hearts on the bottom of the card. They were cut using SCAL and my Silhouette, from a black pre-glittered Core'Dinations cardstock.

The black background was edged with zig-zag scissors, and is backed with a shiny black paper (Recollections/Michaels). I finished the card with some Platinum Opal Liquid Pearls in the corners.

ColourQ #222

Inspiration/Challenges:
ColourQ: Color Combo #222
Crafter's Companion January Challenge: Hearts + CC product (die-cut hearts + Strawberry Kisses/CC Stamp)
Delicious Doodles #69: Layer Up
Sparkle N Sprinkle January Challenge: Anything Goes with Glitter, Embossing Powder and/or Flocking (used flocking a glitter glue)


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Anything Goes at Dude Time Doodles

This week at the Dude Time Doodles Challenge Blog, Anything Goes! 

Friday, January 6 is Epiphany/Three Kings Day in Christian tradition, so I decided to make a card for my parents featuring modern versions of the Magi -- I know it will make them laugh. I decided to do very little research, and was able to incorporate frankincense, myrrh, and gold into the image!

Although I always liked putting my shoes out, I wasn't always excited about the annual Three Kings Day parade, which largely featured costumed people on floats hurling candy into crowds of children. I was beaned right between the eyes by a particularly enthusiastic King when I was 4 or so, and it taught me a valuable lesson, probably. So I was excited to find this candy-themed paper in my stash, as it will really make my folks smile, and also makes it qualify for the Sports Team Colors challenge at Use It Tuesdays! For the Team colors, I went with family favorites: left to right: Green Bay Packers, Baltimore Ravens, Arizona State University.

I used a green glitter pen to fill in the highlights on the candy pieces, and added one to the back:

Be sure to follow the few simple rules listed over at Dude Time Doodles and link your creation with Mr. Linky by January 10th for your chance to win a Dude Time image of your choice.

Gold, Frankincense, Myrrh and TLC

January 6th is Three Kings' Day, so tonight, the 5th, children around the world will put their shoes out, filled with treats for the Kings' animals (perhaps an elephant, horse and camel). I haven't put my shoes out since I was 10 (and even then we kept them inside the door because of other animals), but this year I decided to make some cards for the occasion. So glad it's finally here, so that I can share them!

They were inspired by an image and wordart combo by Paulette at TLC Creations. As soon as I saw it I knew I wanted to make a magic picture card, so I purchased the 3 images: the Kings, the Kings with music background, and the mix of the images & wordart of the carol "We Three Kings".

Good Cheer to all!Digi stamps: We Three Kings Verse, We Three Kings Vintage and We Three Kings Vintage Remix by TLC Creations
Original inspiration for magic picture cards: Naked Mole Rat magic picture card by CPeep at Extreme Cards & Papercrafting
Magic Card tutorial: SplitcoastStampers
Magic card template for SCAL2 by cg-says

Supplies: DCWV decorative paper, Staples cardstock, Graphix clear plastic, eyelet from Tuesday Morning, Crop-O-Dile II, ZipDry glue, HP printer & ink, Fiskars papercutter, Cricut personal cutter, SCAL2 software, Offray ribbon, Sharpies, Grumbacher pastels, Pebbles Inc. pom poms, Pergamano reverse-action tweezers, AquaNet hairspray

Update 1/6/11: This card was mentioned in the Happy Three Kings' Day post on Create with TLC.