CTMH Cats & Bats for the Joyful Stars Blog Hop

Welcome to the Joyful Stars Blog Hop for October 2017.  If you have arrived here from the very talented Michelle Loncar's blog, you are on the right path.  If you get lost and need to start at the beginning, you can always jump back over to the beginning of the hop at the Joyful Creations blog.

Have you seen new Cats & Bats suite from CTMH's Holiday Expressions Catalog yet?  Well, I would like to share with you a layout that I made for my display board that features Cats & Bats.  I use display boards to show my customers some examples of artwork that is made with a given paper suite. 

For this Cats & Bats layout, I started with two base pages of Willow cardstock. 

I then built my layout with patterned cardstock from the Cats & Bats paper pack, and I embellished the layout with Cats & Bats Complements.  The Complements feature cardstock stickers, glittery chipboard accents and 3D buttons.

In these next couple of close ups, I hope you can see the Cats & Bats Dots as well as the Black Shimmer Trim accents too.

I should also mention that I needed one more pop of color to suit my taste, so I added some Pansy Cardstock photo mats.  The pop of Pansy was not a CTMH suggested color, but was all my crazy idea!

Thanks for stopping by to visit me on the Joyful Stars Blog Hop for October 2017.  Now, please hop along to visit my sweet friend Krista, at Krista's Crafty Corner.

CTMH Cats & Bats Party Card

Who says that CTMH's Cats & Bats paper suite has to be used strictly for Halloween themed projects?  Not this girl!!!

I mean, I love Halloween as much as the next girl, but, I want to show you the versatility of this Cats & Bats paper pack.  Here is a card that I made using a few of my CTMH favs at the moment.

Let's run down a list of supplies that I used to make this card, shall we?

Don't you just love the bold polka dot and striped papers of the CTMH Cats & Bats paper pack?  The fun, heart and polka dotted streamers were all part of the Cats & Bats Complements.  The little enamel dots came from the Cats & Bats Dots embellishments.  The word party was stamped and cut from the My Acrylix Cats & Bats Cardmaking Stamp Set with Thin Cuts.  I used a ShinHan marker to give it the green color.  And lastly, that beautiful scalloped border...it was cut from our Silver Foil Paper using our Thin Cuts Scalloped Border.  The foil cuts like a dream with that Scalloped Border, which is actually two pieces.  It should be called Borders, because, there is a second solid border that I cut and layered out of green patterned paper underneath the gorgeous Silver Foil.

So, what do you think?  Is the CTMH Cats & Bats paper suite just for Halloween?