We’re looking for a few good kitties

11 / 13 / 21

We are looking for Papercrafters, Card Makers and Artsy People 😉 that like to make things.

Specifically, things with our stuff. Yep, we’d really love to see what you can do with our stuff.

Don’t have any of our stuff? You can download some free stuff here. Or you can show us your best stuff

What we require:

Able to download and print digital stamps and .svgs

Able to use electronic cutting machines and software like Silhouette Studio, Cricut Design Space and Canvas Workspace

Can produce at least 1-2 projects a month and post to Social Media, such as Facebook, Splitcoaststampers, Pinterest, and Instagram. (An active Youtube Channel is a plus)

Posting projects to The Cat’s Pajamas Blog

Commenting on challenge entries and design team members posts

Like to teach and play with new and exciting techniques

Able to take pictures of your projects, including 2-3 DIYs

Able to commit to at least 1 year on the team

What you will get:

All the New and past Digital Stamps and Cutables (svgs)

Ability to earn a commission from each sale directly from your blog posts and youtube channels.

50% off our website, including sales.

Promotion of your work, blog, social media through our email lists.

Please let us know a little bit about yourself and links to your social media along with 3 pics using our stuff or your best work if interested.

Contact Nancy to apply and for more info.

A Little Something

11 / 10 / 2111 / 10 / 21

Hi there everyone! It’s Brenda here today sharing “a little something” quick to make and great to give as a little goodie for the holidays. It features the Nugget Box, Snowy Sayings and Baby It’s Cold Outside from The Cat’s Pajamas November release.

Baby it’s Cold outside — Baby It’s Could Outside Digi

I have to admit, time has been a tight commodity around our house, so this was the perfect project to undertake. I made several to have on hand for little goodies to give for Christmas in a very short time. Who wouldn’t love to get a box of chocolates with that cut little Penguin dancing on the front.

I started by using Silhouette Studio to cut the nugget box and the the medium and small white layered panel from white cardstock. The direction are easy and quick to follow. The snowflakes were stenciled onto the smallest white panel. I found some cardstock in my stash that matched and cut the largest layered panel and snowflakes from Snowy Sayings in several sizes. I used the print and cut feature to create the image from Baby It’s Cold Outside. The Penguin was colored very simply with Copic markers.

All pieces were assembled as shown. Stickles were added to the snowflakes and a pom-pom added to the Penguin’s hat. As for the inside goodies, they were wrapped in bellybands that were printed with the Snowy Sayings and cut into 3″x1″ pieces and attached to the Nuggets with double sided tape. With any luck, one of these boxes will end up in my craft room.

Thanks so much for taking a peek!

TCP November Release Projects!

11 / 8 / 2111 / 8 / 21

Hello TCP Friends! It’s Christine with you today, bringing you some fun peeks at the fabulous November Release at The Cat’s Pajamas! I’ve got three designs to show you starting with this card created with the new set Baby It’s Cold Outside!

I love the cool polar bear and penguin duo, so I thought it would be fun to pair them with an icy cool palette. I used one of the sentiment’s from the set and because of the ease of using a digital stamp, I enlarged the sentiment and made it the focal point and then added the polar pals in a smaller scale popped up. They’re coloured up with Copics and because they’re small, colouring was a snap! The background is sponged with Distress Oxide Ink in Broken China and Mermaid Lagoon, spritzed it with water and then splashed with more ink.

A few die cut snowflakes and sequins add some colour interest in that fun winter theme.

The next design is perfect for your loved ones who are facing that dreaded winter cold (and hopefully it’s nothing worse than that!).

It’s created with TCP’s adorable new Bounce Back digital. I love this cutie! He’s cozied up in the coziest snowflake paper-pieced patterned paper blanket, and then colour is added to his cute little self with Copics. He’s got his tissue box, hot water bottle, a cup of tea and a cozy popped up scarf to keep him warm.

I framed the image with a snowflake topper and added the red Baker’s Twine to the image to coordinate with the striped scarf that I coloured.

On this view you can see how the scarf, tissues and tea are popped up. I feel like it’s a great cozy card.

And lastly, I’ve got a clean and simple but sparkly design with this Figure Skater by Day and stealthy Ninja by night!

It uses TCP’s new Skating Bunny digi. I thought the sentiment was such a cute one. Our spinning bunny is coloured up with Copics and I couldn’t resist using a swirly die on the background layer to mimic the fancy skating routine he’s been doing.

I added lots of spritzy sparkle to the main layer which of course is so challenging to photograph, but its so fun in person. The card is accented with a pretty gingham ribbon pulling in the black and white colour scheme.

And some holeless sequins accent the sparkly theme of the design. I hope you’ve enjoyed the fun and festive sets I’ve played with today. Here’s a peek at the set graphics so you can see what is included in each design! Thanks so much for joining me today!

Baby It’s Could Outside Digi

Bounce Back Digi

Skating Bunny Digi

Happy November

10 / 31 / 21

November is my very favorite Month of the Year! It’s still Fall, but Winter is coming. So, of course, this month, I’ve got some of my favorite digi stamp sets and Cutables to present to you. There are quite a few, so grab a seat and a cuppa and enjoy the show.

Starting at the top I give you a Winter Truck card in a box. I designed it to fit in a slimline, but you can scale it up or down. That’s the beauty of digi/Cutables. This file also has .pngs so you can print them and cut them out even if you don’t have an electronic cutting machine.

It’s easy to put together and there is even a place to put your personal message. Click on the photo above or this link to see the video.

Baby It’s Cold Outside was one of my favorite stamp sets. So, I thought I’d bring it back just so that you could make this.

If you need stocking stuffers or small gifts for a class or party, this Nugget Box Cutable is perfect and easy to make. Especially, if you use our Baby, It’s Cold Outside Digi to decorate them before you cut the pieces out.

If you are creating an Advent Calendar or just need some snazzy numbers, check out our Puffy Numbers Cutable. You get numbers 0-9 and a hashtag and percent sign

Our Puffy Numbers Cutables are great by themselves or with this great stamp set, Your Number Is Up. Here’s what I mean.

Super cute, huh? Just as cute as our next stamp set, Skating Bunny.

He’s perfect if you want a Winter card and not a Christmas or Hanukkah Card.

If you love Vintage, like I do, we’ve bought back our Vintage Christmas Stamp Set, with a couple of tweaks. It’s a great set to mix and match

Snowy Sayings is a new set that you can use as a digi stamp AND a Cutable .svg file. I designed these so that you could enlarge them and cut them out and use the negative space as a coverplate, or to use for shaker cards.

Or, you could always use all or parts on your cards or crafts or scrapbook pages.

If you’ve been with us since the beginning, you might recognize this Mini Pizza Note Box that Jen del Muro designed for our Project of the Month. It’s a cute container for small gifts or notecards, so I decided to turn it into a Cutable. We’ve included .svg files for the box and notecards. You provide the stamps and paper.

What’s great about a Cutable is that you can enlarge the files to fit bigger gifts, like a gift card or even yummy candies. Think stocking stuffers.

Finally, this digi stamp while not a Winter Stamp or a Holiday stamp is perfect for the season, don’t you think? Here in Calgary, we’ve already had 2 snowfalls, and I can just feel the cold season starting. Bounce Back is a great digi stamp that you can use all year round.

I hope you like all the New Digis & Cutables for November. I can’t wait to get crafting. This month we’ll be starting a NEW Challenge just for the Holidays, I hope you will join us and play along!

Brains!

10 / 29 / 2110 / 16 / 21

Hey all! Happy Saturday! Cristena here today. Are you all ready for Halloween? I have so much fun with Halloween and this cutie is one of the reasons! I love the Brains! Digital Stamp from The Cat’s Pajamas. I couldn’t resist the sentiment to use it!

I had a GREAT TIME with this fellow! I even had to go and watch The Mummy with Brandon Frasier while I was coloring this! Just so PERFECT!

I don’t know if you can tell but any place there was “skin” (I mean do mummies really have any skin? haha) I had to color it with green colors to make it extra fun!

This sentiment makes me laugh so much!! I LOVE IT! It is just the ABSOLUTE PERFECT sentiment to go with this ever adorable set! I actually printed the sentiment on vellum cardstock which was GREAT! I don’t know about you but any time I try to stamp on vellum cardstock it always smears. I love digital stamps so much!

I finished off the card with just a couple of sequins.

The Copic colors I used are:

Mummy: E41, 42, 43, 44, 47, YG61, 63, 67

2021 Cat Lovers Hop

10 / 28 / 2110 / 30 / 21

It’s National CAT Day! And, If you can’t tell by the name of our Company, we LOVE cats. Of course, we HAD to sponsor a day in the Cat Lover’s Hop.

If you didn’t know after 20 years in business, The Cat’s Pajamas went digital. (I am loving being semi-retirement). One of the reasons I love digital is that we can offer one of my FAVORITE stamp sets as a FREE download so you can play along with the Cat Lovers Hop on this very special day.

That’s right! From now until November 2, you can download this pretty for FREE.

You get the Kitty carrying gifts AND 4 sentiments. We save them at 300 dpi so if you make them large, you won’t lose definition.

So, download the free digi, now. It will stop being free on November 3. And, don’t forget to play along with the Cat Lovers Hop. Besides the free digi, you could win a gift voucher to our digital shop.

Here are the deets.

Happy Hauntings

10 / 25 / 2110 / 25 / 21

Gosh, can you believe Halloween is Sunday? Before it’s too late, I want to share a couple of spooky cards I made using Vintage Halloween Digi and Fancy Frames Cutables from The Cat’s Pajamas October release.

I used Silhouette Design Studio to create both cards. Every time I use it I stumble onto something new to me. For this card, I imported one of the Fancy Frames. resized and cut it to fit an A2 card blank (4″x 51/4″). The other elements are from Vintage Halloween Digi. I know I always mention the versatility of digis, but I still don’t really know all you can do with them. Look at these great die cuts that happened by cutting out the digital stamp design!

I sparkled all of the bats with black sparkle embossing powder, the spider with Orange Stickles and the webs with Black Diamond Stickles. The Fancy Frame was run through a spider web embossing folder to add all that wonderful texture. The frame was popped up on top of the A2 blank with foam tape as were the bats and spider. OCT 31 was simply glued in place.

The second card was made using Vintage Halloween Digi. This card definitely happened by accident. I started by just cutting some spider webs, bats, spiders, and words. While I was doing this, I learned that when you add an offset around your image, it makes a perfect frame. I’ll add some pictures on my blog to help explain better. You just move the image off your design space and send the offset “frame” to be cut.

For this card I cut the Happy Haunting scene and added a bit of Copic color here and there. I also ran a black marker around the edge to color the little white bits on the edge. Jelly Roll pens added a little sparkle to the ghost eyes and the web in the scene.

I cut 2 frames, green and purple, and ran them through the spider web embossing folder. They were layered onto the A2 card blank with foam tape along with the spider webs. The bats were placed using foam tape.

Thanks for taking a look. Before I go I want remind you of the Halloween freebie in the store. It’s called Ghoulish Digi and can be found here. Head on over to the TCP store to pick up yours and to take a look at all the fun in the October release.

All of you stay well, to those of you who trick or treat, have a safe, fun Halloween. See ya again soon!

Time to Unwind!

10 / 18 / 2110 / 18 / 21

Hey everyone! Angela back with a fun card featuring Brains Digi, one of the new digis released this month. I love Halloween and was excited to play with this digi. Aside from Christmas, Halloween is one of my favorite holidays! I absolutely love creating Halloween cards and I am addicted to scary movies. Do you like Scary Movies? I also love handing out candy on Halloween. Growing up we (my little brother and myself) never really trick or treated…… my grandma was a school cook so we did the school event where you knock on cardboard, but we never had the full experience. But I love being on the other side!

I printed the image on Copic Xpress It cardstock and cut with my Scan N Cut.

I colored my mummy with Copics – decided on simple coloring on this image.

Skin: E00, E11

Mummy- T1, Colorless Blender

I inked my sentiment with Black Soot Distress Oxide Ink and did an angle cut to add a bit of flair to my sentiment strip.

I used some Halloween Paper from my stash and a Haunted Hill Die, to add to the scene.

Lastly I used some hot pink enamel dots to add a pop of color.

I hope you enjoyed my card.

I would love to hear your Halloween favorites!

Hay Gnomie

10 / 15 / 2110 / 16 / 21

Hey all!! Happy Saturday! Cristena here today! I hope you are enjoying this wonderful fall turn of the seasons. I am with the beautiful trees outside changing colors and with this NEW RELEASE Hay Gnomie Digital Stamp Set from The Cat’s Pajamas! It is so very cute!

Hello Pumpkin Spice!

10 / 7 / 2110 / 7 / 21

Believe it or not, I had my first ever pumpkin spice latte this year and I loved it! I was so happy to see this fun digital stamp, Fall Pumpkins from The Cat’s Pajamas September release. It definitely triggers the wonderful taste and smell in a good way but, if pumpkin spice is not your thing, there are two other wonderful options included.

There are so many things you could do with the set; greeting cards, place cards, banners, placemats…just let your imagination go. I decided to make a little autumn decor with it. I salvaged a piece of corrugated cardboard and took out my little stash of vinyl. I used Silhouette Studio to size and cut the vinyls as shown here. I just love that darling little latte.

After the vinyl was cut, I layered it on to a piece of kraft cardstock as shown above. The edges were torn to fit the 5 3/4″ x 4 1/4″ cardboard and it was distressed with ink and glued in place. Grommets were placed to hold jute to hang it and a big orange bow was added. I used a little distressed metal hanger I decorate for the different seasons, but you could find a nice branch that would accomplish the same sort of look.

In the end, I felt it needed something, so I added a few coffee colored sequins and a few splatters. Thanks for taking a peek!