Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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Feb 04
Lovelorn Jack Card
Part of a series of six greeting cards inspired by the need to make a birthday card for Jane Cheek. For this card I started with a greeting card blank that I’d started to stamp an invitation on (I ended up not using the invitations because evite is easier). I cut a rectangle of scrapbooking …
Jan 31
Jerome’s Landscape
I was originally going to use one of the etched copper embellishments I made for this, but decided against it because the metal would be too heavy to mail. When I mail letters, I tend to cut extra sheets so I can add a lot more text than the stationary-makers think a person needs, and …
Jan 28
Haloed Blue Reader Card
I’d made the linoblock of a woman reading for another birthday card for Jane, and the print was still in the pack of cards. I cut it out and placed it experimentally on the blue scrapbooking paper background. It wanted some kind of outline, and I love the idea of using text, so I took …
Jan 25
Happy Birthday Jane
Jane’s birthday was the impetus behind all this card-making. I wanted to make a birthday card for her that was really special. This particular card was the hardest to make, as it didn’t seem to turn out the way I wanted it to. After I chose the card color and the background scrapbook paper, I …
Jan 22
Kuchi Red-Violet book
This is the fourth of a series of four books I did simultaneously in which I used the same rainbow tie-dye fabric as a base. For this book, there wasn’t any green and hardly any blue in the piece of cloth I had, which I liked very much. The front cover and the back are …