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Happy Tuesday!  I hope you enjoyed the holiday weekend and whatever celebrations you took part of for Canada Day or the 4th of July!

I had a request for thank you card ideas, so when I saw one on Pinterest that inspired me to make this week’s card, I knew I could turn it into a lovely thank you 🙂  The card itself is very simple, featuring one of the gorgeous Sizzix thinlits dies by Tim Holtz over a pretty watercolor background I created with Color Burst.  The same background design paper is cut into a strip, which gives a strong visual to the front of the card and draws the eye to the three main elements- the lace pattern, the sentiment and the cat!

The sentiment is from my new fave Avery Elle “Oh Happy Day” set.  It’s such a pretty script and a really nice mix of sentiments too 🙂

I tied a small bouquet to the crazy cat’s tail (the cat crazy stamps by Tim Holtz are just as fun as the birds!) to help him/her show appreciation.  I picked up some color on my craft sheet to add to the flowers since the original white color blended into my cream card base a bit too much.

Here’s another look at the card, the sun is shining bright so it was tricky getting photos without shadows, but I wanted you to see the pretty colors in the full light!

This would be a simple card to reproduce multiples of (if I was someone who did that!) and play with a variety of colors, sentiments, cat & bird images…

Hope you have a creative day and that your summer is off to an amazing start!  Thanks to all of you who left kind words on my last post- I’m glad my ‘something different’ inspired you!

Inky hugs,

Tara