Oscar Voucher (collage?)

There is a very old little gentleman named Oscar who I've had the pleasure of catsitting several times while his owner/servant goes off on adventures.

Over the winter holiday times, several friends and I got together for a Friendsmas that involved a homemade feast and a little gift exchange. I was really stumped what to get Oscar's owner/servant/dad/devotee until another friend suggested some kind of catsitting coupon. PERFECT! ..........or..........dare I say....................

PURRfect????

Eh? :D

EH??? :D :D :D

So I could have just designed something cute in Photoshop and printed it out, that wouldn't have taken long at all- an hour tops.

What I did instead was turn this into a labor-intensive, golden, hand-lettered, collaged piece of paper craft.

To begin, I printed out the above design and then used white transfer paper to- as the name implies- transfer it onto some black cardstock. Then I lettered it in gold.

Unfortunately, I did not account for how much thicker gold paint would be than a pen line, so my smaller text got kiiiiinda squished. It's supposed to read:

"Oscar Voucher: Redeem for one (1) catsitting event at any participating Erika Moen establishments."

Because gold hand lettering with a brush (because I forgot I still had a gold paint pen that was way better suited) didn't take long enough, I then proceeded to cut out the Oscar illustration as a negative shape from the black paper. Which I then teamed up with some really shiny gold paper behind it!

Ta-dah!

I am happy to report that this was not one of those useless clutter gifts because not too long after I gave it to him, Oscar's owner reached out to cash it in for another stint of catsitting- which I am on my final day of today!

It's always a pleasure to spend time with this little guy. He's hella old, over 10! But you'd never guess it, he looks and moves like a much younger cat.

I guess I gotta make some more coupons so I can catsit him again in the future!