A Happy Purr-thday Card

It seems like it's been a long time since I made a card to play along in a challenge! The current MFT sketch challenge card layout was too good to pass up. 

Other than a smaller format, I stayed very close to the sketch:

I used two different MFT cat stamp sets... and I MIRROR STAMPED!!! This is my most successful attempt at mirror stamping yet. (By which I mean, it's usually a complete failure.) I wish I could remember where I saw it suggested to use a gelli plate for the technique, but at least I remembered to try it. I stamped the cat onto the plate with pigment ink, carefully pressed down a piece of watercolour paper, and was even able to successfully heat emboss the transfer. While waiting for the watercoloured kitties to dry, I die cut the white frame, added the sentiments and sparkly hearts to the blended panel (I had made it a while back at a stamping playdate), and adhered the various layers. The final thing was to perch the two cats on their *windowsill*.  

I'm also entering this in the current Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes with Dies challenge. 

Supplies: Neenah white, Recollections black, & Hero Arts blue layering cardstock, Canson watercolour paper, MFT Love You Furever & Cool Cat stamps & dies, Versafine onyx black, Colorbox orchid & assorted Catherine Pooler inks, Wow clear gloss & clear sparkle embossing powder, Zig watercolour markers, MFT blueprints 29 stitched die