Cheerful Kitty

A handmade holiday greeting card featuring a gray and white cat die cut sitting on a vellum arch. The card has a pink and purple ombre background with a pink crosshatch pattern and "HOLIDAY CHEER" in white text at the bottom. The card is white and textured. It has been photographed from the bottom right corner. It's displayed on a wooden surface alongside the BetterPress plate that created the crosshatch pattern, the embossing folder that created the texture, an arch die and two sentiment banners with the text "Cozy Wishes." The Valley Oak Paper watermark is visible in a corner.
Closeup of a handmade holiday greeting card that features a gray and white cat die cut sitting on a vellum arch. The cat has been ink blended in grey tones. The muzzle and inside of the ears are pink. The eyes are sage green. It has a magnificent white ruff. The card has a pink and purple ombre background with a pink crosshatch pattern and "HOLIDAY CHEER" in white text at the bottom.
A handmade holiday greeting card featuring a gray and white cat die cut sitting on a vellum arch. The card has a pink and purple ombre background with a pink crosshatch pattern and "HOLIDAY CHEER" in white text at the bottom. The card is white and textured. It's displayed on a wooden surface alongside the BetterPress plate that created the crosshatch pattern, the embossing folder that created the texture, an arch die and some of the dies used to create the cat. The "Valley Oak Paper" watermark is visible in a corner.

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Kitty

My grey kitty is from Bibi Cameron’s Cheerful Kittens Die Set by Spellbinders. You can find an introduction to the die set in a previous post. This time I cut it out from Hammermill cardstock and ink blended it with the following Distress Oxide colors:

  • Hickory Smoke
  • Black Soot
  • Bundled Sage
  • Kitsch Flamingo

Backgrounds

I created the white background with the July 2025 Embossing Folder of the Month, Frosted Stitch.

For the colorful background, I started by ink blending Kitsch Flamingo, Picked Raspberry and Seedless Preserves Distress Oxides on a piece of pink cardstock. When it had dried, I foiled it using the July 2025 BetterPress Kit of the Month with Pastel Pink Glimmer Hot Foil. I cut it down to 3 ¾ by 5″ and added thin foam to the back.

I also cut an arch from white vellum.

A handmade holiday greeting card stands facing right. It features a gray and white cat die cut sitting on a vellum arch. The card has a pink and purple ombre background with a pink crosshatch pattern and "HOLIDAY CHEER" in white text at the bottom. The card is white and textured. It's displayed on a wooden surface alongside the BetterPress plate that created the crosshatch pattern, the embossing folder that created the texture, an arch die, some cat dies and two sentiment banners with the text "Cozy Wishes." The Valley Oak Paper watermark is visible in a corner.
A handmade holiday greeting card featuring a gray and white cat die cut sitting on a vellum arch. The card has a pink and purple ombre background with a pink crosshatch pattern and "HOLIDAY CHEER" in white text at the bottom. The card is white and textured. It has been photographed from the bottom left corner. It's displayed on a wooden surface alongside the BetterPress plate that created the crosshatch pattern, the embossing folder that created the texture, an arch die, some cat dies and two sentiment banners with the text "Cozy Wishes." The Valley Oak Paper watermark is visible in a corner.
A handmade holiday greeting card stands facing left. It features a gray and white cat die cut sitting on a vellum arch. The card has a pink and purple ombre background with a pink crosshatch pattern and "HOLIDAY CHEER" in white text at the bottom. The card is white and textured. It's displayed on a wooden surface alongside the BetterPress plate that created the crosshatch pattern, the embossing folder that created the texture, an arch die, some cat dies and two sentiment banners with the text "Cozy Wishes." The Valley Oak Paper watermark is visible in a corner.

Sentiment

The sentiment I foiled with white Glimmer Hot Foil and the sentiment from this month’s BetterPress Kit. My base was more of the same pink cardstock that I had ink blended with Distress Oxide Seedless Preserves. I cut it out with the coordinating die (included).

Assembly

I started by gluing the white background directly to the front of my card base. Then I added glue to the thin foam on the back of the pink-to-purple background and centered it on the card front.

Next I glued my grey kitty directly to the center of the vellum arch and added the sentiment below her. I turned the vellum over and added foam tape behind the cat and the sentiment banner. Then I adhered the vellum panel to the center of the card front.

I finished up by adding Fashion Rose Color Essentials Pearl Dots (discontinued) and Berry Color Essentials Gems to the card. I’m loving these non-traditional holiday colors and who can resist a festive cat?

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