The Male Room #72 - Spooky

I've said it before:  I love silhouettes.  You can imagine how quickly I decided I was going to play along with the Male Room challenge since their theme this week is silhouettes.  What fun!

I decided to do a simply laid out card.  What I wanted to feature was a branch, a cat and the moon.  To prepare for that I made myself a mask so that I could begin sponging in a huge yellow and orange moon using Crushed Curry and Peekaboo Peach inks.  Once that was done I changed over to a mask to protect that moon I had just created and began sponging in the sky using Marina Mist and Night of Navy inks.  Partway through a rather vigorous bit of sponging created a wrinkle in my sky and it definitely showed.  Rather than scrap the piece and begin again, I took advantage of Fate's interference and carefully created a whole set of wrinkles all over the piece, making sure I left the moon smooth.  The finished sponging was even better than I had hoped.  The added lines from the wrinkles were a super addition.

Next I turned to the silhouettes I had planned to place across the moon.  The branch was easy.  I love the skinny, bare branch from the Stampin' Up! Seasonal Layers Thinlits.  After cutting that out from a scrap of Basic Black cardstock, I mulled over cat silhouette choices.  The Stampin' Up! Cat Punch simply didn't have enough attitude.  I had, however, bought a set of Tim Holtz cat stamps with matching framelits.  One of those cats had attitude to spare.  I used the framelit to cut out my cat from Basic Black cardstock.  The branch and cat were perfect against that huge moon.

I wanted a sentiment but didn't think stamping one, even with heat embossing, would show up well.  I did, however, have a retired Stampin' Up! framelit which spelled out "spooky" and used on a scrap of Black Glitter paper.

My base cardstock is Basic Grey followed by a layer of Night of Navy.  I love the way this turned out, don't you?

I hope you'll check out the other great silhouettes at the Male Room.

I also linked up to the Hand Stamped Sentiments fun challenge.

And finally, I'm also linking up to the Show Us Your Pussies Cats Challenge #23.