Fitting right in

It hasn't taken long for Harley to settle in. He's an easy-going kitten, not too clingy, and he finds fun at every turn. He's already outgrown this place to curl up and nap, on top of a side table. Simple things entertain him: he delights in carrying around and tossing the white glove fingertips that I cut off the oversized gloves I wear when I handle fabric. An empty water bottle gets batted around the house, making a great noise.

This page was from a scraplift night online, and the ribbon and tag are from my "Reigning Cats and Dogs" kit.



Toby has found a new competitor in Harley. Ringo is very grateful, not having to be the subject of so many daily playfights. He gets to sit back and watch as the other two pound each other into playful submission, then race around the house at breakneck speed. Rank has its privileges.

The papers and elements (except for the tag by Lauren Bavin) are from my "Reigning Cats and Dogs" kit.

A new passion, a new love

Two things came into my life recently: learning to do digital scrapbooking with PhotoShop Elements 4.0, and a new kitten. Both are taking inordinate chunks of my time. Both are something I really needed to spice things up around here.

Here is the page I made the night the new kitten finally came inside out of the stormy weather and a life living under my car. He had come up to the porch to eat, and once I got him with his head down in the food dish, not watching me, I snatched him up. I was wearing gardening gloves, and it was a good thing. The element of surprise was terrifying to him, and he screamed and hissed and snarled all the way into the waiting bathroom where I gave him a bath and cuddled him in a soft towel. He settled down, burrowing into the folds of the towel, and here he is, before I even had a name for him. I'd been calling him BK, short for Baby Kitty, during his stay outside, because I couldn't even be positive which "brand" he was. He never let me get that close.

The page elements were all things that I had experimented with: a piece of yarn, the paw prints, and an allover patterned paper. They are part of a new kit I'm designing called "Reigning Cats and Dogs". If you like digital scrapping, email me, and I will share some elements of this kit with you.



Not to leave the other boys out, I started scrapping pages of their antics. I had bought them a small kitty condo to give them a new sense of place while the new cat in town was sequestered in the bathroom. No sooner than I walked in the door with it, Toby and Ringo were all over it, in it, and jockeying for position. The pictures on this page were taken over the course of an hour or so of "Synchronized Sleeping". The papers are from Tami Forbes' Mystery Kit, a crop challenge.

Welcome to Scrapkatz!

Hi there! Welcome to Scrapkatz, my blog to showcase my digital scrapbooking, and my three fuzzy buddies.

Let me introduce you to Ringo, aka The Big Red Cat, who came into the family after his first owner had to go into a nursing home. He's a huge red tabby, a stocky fellow who is a real soft touch. He loves having his tummy rubbed, and flops in the floor at any chance for someone to oblige him. Not sure exactly how old Ringo might be, as he was fully grown when he showed up about three years ago.

Toby was maybe six weeks old when someone tossed him out behind the car dealership downtown. We brought him home, and he immediately took up with my mother, and he would snuggle up in the crook of her elbow and try to hide. He wasn't shy for long, however, becoming quite a rambunctious fellow. Today, his favorite toy is a plush Peep (like the marshmallow variety), and he enjoys wrestling with the other two cats.



Harley is the newcomer to the family. His feral mother brought him and two littermates up onto my porch one weekend. I managed to catch two of the three, and took them to my vet to see if he could take them in and find homes, which he did. The third kitten was too fast for me, running into the backyard and under a storage building where I couldn't get him. His mother abandoned him, and he was left alone to live under my car. It took me three weeks to coax him close enough to nab him and bring him inside. Now, he wouldn't go out for anything. He's going to be a real love.