Large birthday card featuring a cute cat and a black and white background

I have been having fun with paper scraps!!  I have been paper piecing backgrounds for cards and for this one I used black, gray and white scraps which I cut into strips and glued to a bond paper substrate starting with a X pattern near the middle.  I simply butted the scraps to the leg of the X and trimmed them off at the edge.  I used the zig zag stamp to add faux stitching to my background.  I adhered it to a large black card.  I watercoloured the cat (CLKER) to coordinate and when it was dry ran my pattern tracing wheel on all four edges.  I mounted it to a black rectangle of cardstock and added a variety of coordinating ribbons to the right hand side using double sided tape.  I like the little pop of orange on the cat which I echoed  with the ribbon.  Therese