Feline-themed Art Papers
Art Papers With Cat Art!
I’ve had this idea in mind for several years trying to find the best way to put it together. Seeing text-weight and cover-weight art papers for scrapbooking and creative crafts I decided this was a good way to give it a try. These papers are designed from my portraits and sketches and printed digitally.
Use these papers for scrapbooking, wrapping gifts, decorating keepsake boxes or any creative project you can think of that needs a bunch of cats on it! I ship them flat between sheets of cardboard. I’ve included a photo of keepsake box I made as an example–this box is not for sale.
I’ve started with three different designs and two different paper stocks, text and cover, to see how popular they are. I have many more ideas in mind for these papers—consider the number of daily sketches and portraits I have, plus holiday designs, and artwork yet to come!
22 Cats Art Paper
This pattern is a collage of all 16 portraits—22 cats in all—included in my Great Rescues Day Book. I’ve painted portraits of pets since 1992 and I’d always wanted to publish them somehow, and since most are rescues I always wanted to share their stories as well, and this came together in Great Rescues. The pattern repeats six times on the paper so you are sure to be able to fit all the cats on one project or just cut out the cats you want. This text-weight pattern is printed on one side of 70# gloss text weight paper, the cover-weight pattern printed on 100# Lynx Uncoated Bright White Cover.
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Just Fits Art Paper
Any cat who gets in my way gets sketched. Giuseppe decided to nap in the basket I’d had merchandise orders in, and he would not get out of it, even though he did not exactly fit in it. He really scrunched himself too, but he made for a nice solid subject. This is drawn in brush pen which actually has shaped bristles at the tip and the ink flows from a cartridge so it’s almost like a brush dipped in ink. The brush is very graceful and I can make all sorts of lovely lines, wide and flat or narrow and wandering. I designed this pattern when I decided to play around with the sketch as a repeating pattern and colored Giuseppe a different color each time. This text-weight pattern is printed on one side of 70# gloss text weight paper, the cover-weight is printed on 100# Lynx Bright White cover.
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Brush Kitties Art Paper
This pattern is a collage of all the kitties I’ve drawn in this same style with the above-mentioned brush pen, singles, multiples, smooth lines, sketchy lines, just a bunch of busy kitties in black on white. The text-weight paper is printed on one side of 60# uncoated text weight paper—in case you want to add color yourself—the cover-weight is printed on 100# Lynx Bright White cover.
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Text or Cover, and Pricing
All three patterns are printed on one side of the page, and come in two text or cover stock with corresponding sizes:
- Text-weight stock is printed as described above and trimmed to a generous 11″ x 17″, click here to go to Etsy.
- Cover-weight is printed as described above and trimmed to 11″ x 11″, click here to go to Etsy.
These are priced singly for $2.00 per sheet and in sets of three for $5.00. I’ve listed the most likely sets on Etsy, but if you’d like a different combination, please send your description in a conversation.
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Once a week on Thursday I feature something new in my “shop”, whether that’s here on The Creative Cat, in my Etsy shop, on my main website or even at one of the bricks and mortar shops that carry my work.
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Find out more about creating custom items for your own home using the images you see here. Visit the “Ordering Custom Art” page to see samples and read bout how to order.
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Weekly schedule of features:
Sunday: Essays, Pet Loss, Poetry, The Artist’s Life
Monday: Adoptable Cats, TNR & Shelters
Tuesday: Rescue Stories
Wednesday: Commissioned Portrait or Featured Artwork
Thursday: New Merchandise
Friday: Book Review, Health and Welfare, Advocacy
Saturday: Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat, Living Green With Pets, Creating With Cats
And sometimes, I just throw my hands in the air and have fun!
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These are great Bernadette..I will order some in the near future!!
Bluemoonalone, that’s great to hear–I’m actually working with a few of them this weekend!
Terrific idea Bernadette!
Thank you Sued–and thanks for your feedback as I post my art and sketches!
These are beautiful, B. Can the text weight be used as wrapping paper?
Thanks, Chris! Yes, I wish I could go a little lighter but they are plenty flexible enough to wrap small gifts–I tried it with a few of the proofs I had printed. Until I can get it printed in rolls, this will work!
hay…thiz bee a kewl eye dea 🙂 !!
Thanks, Tabbies–I had such fun!