Valentine's Artist Trading Coin Featuring Tim Holtz's Crazy Cat
Hello, everyone! Welcome back! In today's post, I will show how I made the second of four Valentine's coins. These are for a swap where four people each had their own theme. The first coin was a bacon and egg theme, and this coin's theme was a cat, so I chose to use a Crazy Cat from the Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Mini Crazy Cats and Crazy Dog stamp set. I do have a video of how I made these coins, so if you are interested in watching that, you can go here or scroll to the end of this post. Sorry for the poor photo - I just couldn't get good lighting. Anyhow, I started by punching out 2.5" circles from mixed media paper and bookpages. I glued the pieces together and then used a wash of white gesso by Liquetex gesso over the bookpage to push the text into the background. As you can see in the photos above, you don't see much of the bookpages any more. I stamped the cats from the Tim Holtz stamp set onto the Canson mixed media paper, an...