The Cat Lovers Christmas Kickstart Challenge - Tis The Season (Plus Papercrafters Year in Review 2023 Hop Info)

Hello everyone! Every October Janis Woolbright would hold the Cat Lovers Hop and I was so happy when I discovered the hop a few years ago and had been taking part in it. Sadly, in January Janis passed away and in her honor the Cat Lovers Christmas Kickstart challenge was created. So today I am sharing a card made for the challenge.

To make my card I also followed one of the "game" challenges on the Christmas Kickstart blog and that is a tic tac toe game created with Janis's favorite techniques and themes in mind.

I went with diagonal left top to right bottom (die cut, tag, stamp) but it also fits the top row (die cut, ribbon, patterened paper) and second row (glitter, stamp, scraps).

 Christmas Kickstart Tic Tac Toe

I used some cute cats from the Penny Black set Deck the Halls and a mix of distress inks/Zig Clean Color markers for coloring. The die cut pine branches are also from Penny Black and the bauble tag is an oldie from Whimsy Stamps. Found the perfect red gingham ribbon scrap in my ribbon drawer and tied some jute twine around it. Striped and red paper are also both scraps. I used Penny Black's background stamps Christmas Story before adding the die cuts/papers/ribbon to the top. To finish it off I applied Stickles glitter to the lights. 

The sentiment "Tis the Season" is from another PB set - Holiday Snippets.

Besides the Cat Lover's Christmas Kickstart challenge and Christmas Kickstart Tic Tac Toe I'd also like to share my card here:

Penny Black Saturday challenge - use PB stamps

Snippets Playground - Use Snippets

Simon Says Stamp - Christmas

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge - Christmas

Peace on Earth - Christmas

Fab n Funky - Coloring

The Crafty Addicts - AG

We Love Stamping - AG 

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Papercrafters' Year in Review 2023 Hop Sign Up

Before I let you go, I wanted to mention that I am once again planning the "Year a Review" hop where we will feature our favorite creations of the year and looking for a few co-hosts. As always, you may choose how many project you will feature. It could be a top 5 or top 10. Maybe you have just one you are especially fond of having created. I usually go with a favorite of each month to make the choice easier. 

Details:

• Create a blog post featuring YOUR OWN favorite creations of 2023 to be scheduled on your blogs for Friday December 29th 6am CST (12 noon UK time)
• I will provide the html code for the linky tool to each person signing up as a co-host. It would be great if you included this in your post on your own blogs but not neccessary as long as you post a list of each participant.
• Your blog followers are welcome to link up their own favorites during that time period should they decided to create their own "year in review" posts. The linky tool will be open for one week.
• You must have a blog to participate.
• This will be a blog hop, so please plan on visiting and commenting on each participant's "Year in Review 2023" post when time allows during hop week.
• This sign up is for any paper crafter with a blog. You don't have to have a papercraft only blog - as long as you have some favorite handmade cards to share in your review post you are welcome to sign up. 
• Optional: You are welcome to offer a small prize to a winner selected from those who commented on your post (including other co-hosts) but that is totally up to you and it is absolutely not needed to offer a prize in order to be a co-host. 
• The blog hop will run for one week (December 29th - January 4th)
• To get an idea of how it works you can click here to see last year's hop.

I will close the sign-up linky tool on December 9th (may close sooner if enough sign up before that date), then I will message everyone with the hop list by December 15th so everyone will have plenty of time to prepare their posts even before Christmas should you want to work ahead on it.