Felix Says Boo! – #scrappy8challenge #sssmchallenge and AJJ September

Happy Friday!

I hope your Friday is going well and that you have something fun planned for the weekend!  Wanderlust 2025 early bird pricing also went on sale yesterday and I had already decided, like with so many other things, not to do it next year, but then I also said that last year, haha, and then I look at the schedule, and the teachers, and the new format, and the fact that it’s their 10th anniversary, and gotta admit, I am tempted….

Anyway it is very exciting here because  – the sun is shining and a top of 23C is expected!!!  Yes that is nothing to get excited about usually but we have been having a lot of rain and temps around 12-13C so yes, as soon as I finish writing this post I am going outside (along with everyone else in Scotland) to get some much needed Vitamin D.  Miss Lily already has her place in the sun and she is not moving (until the sun moves around to the back and then she will be in her afternoon spot).

So here is my page for today.  It was made with a couple of challenges in mind – it is the eighth monthly page for the Scrappy8 challenge over on Instagram, where this month’s prompt is “tear down and buiild up” and also for this week’s Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, where the prompt is “recycle it” so how could I not join in both of those!  I do love a bit of recycling!  I used an (empty) Felix cat food box, dismantled it, dissected it, die-cut it, reconstructed it into a page (two pages actually) and then used the die cuts to decorate it.

Everything you see here with the exception of the Worn Wallpaper background papers, was made with the Felix cat food box.  The box forms the basis of my page, one side of the box.

And then all the little diecut elements were also cut from the box. I had enough cardboard left over to make a second page which I will use later.  I *did* really want to make use of those little black paw prints and the eye-shaped openings but it was not to be.  You can see on the right that I even cut holes in the wallpaper so I could have them on the page but it just wasn’t working the way I wanted it to so I ended up covering them up.

Here’s a look at some of the diecutting I did using the box.  A list of the dies used is at the end of the post.  Felix is just a black and shades of grey image on the kraft cardboard so I coloured him in using some paint/gel pens in his usual colours.

Miss Lily took an interest in this skull die for some unknown reason.  She was really intrigued with the smell (what smell?) and then started trying to bite it with her tiny kitten teeth. No dies were harmed during this process!  LOL  Lily’s teeth were OK too btw.

Everything was diecut from the cardboard box except for these white pieces which were cut from watercolour paper.  It wasn’t my original plan, I had started colouring various bits and pieces yellow and orange but then decided against all that colour and went with plain white.  I used a wreath die to cut the wreath a few times and then all the little elements that go with it, and then coloured some dark brown and kept the rest of them as kraft.  The pumpkin die actually has three main layers (it’s one of those colorize ones) but I only used two for the brown and white pumpkins and used the third kraft layer as separate pumpkins.

And just in case you were wondering about the other kitties, here is Mr G enjoying one of the scratchboards I made for them for their birthday in July.  I made two of these big 50 x 50cm scratches using recycled cardboard boxes.  The bigger size was deliberate as Mr G is almost twice the size of his sister Miss Lily, so he needs the extra room!

I am also linking to Art Journal Journey’s “Anything Goes” theme hosted by Aimeslee from Paper Paisleys Art Adventures. I know some of the people at AJJ love a bit of recycling too so hopefully you will enjoy this page!

Let me know what you think in the comments below.   As always, thanks for reading and Happy Journalling!Ingredients
cat food box, TH worn wallpaper, Sizzix TH dies – Pumpkin Patch colorize, Big Frights, Vault Foliage Wreath, Distress Ink Antique Linen, Archival Ground Espresso, watercolour paper (the white pieces) paint pens, white gel pen, Sizzix express glue,

Challenges

Art Journal Journey – Anything Goes – September theme
#Scrappy8challenge – Instagram challenge
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – Recycle It
Creative Artiste – Challenge #108
Leigh SB Designs – Challenge #32 Anything Goes or CATS I thought you might enjoy the kitties 🙂