Peck Witch and Petrified Cat

Sorry for the lapse in posting this weekend.  We've been having some house renovations done, a result of a tornado in March of 2025.  Our house had minor damage, but we decided to redo the whole house exterior as a result.  It's coming along very nicely, thanks for asking.

My first die cut of the season is this Peck (I believe) Witch and Black Cat.  The artwork looks very much like Peck, but I couldn't find an example on the internet and apparently neither could Google.  It likely dates from the 1970's based on the style.

 Clearly, this is this cat's first journey as a familiar.  Or maybe not, and he knows what's coming.

This was a large die cut, so I had to take eight scans to capture it entirely and stitch it together (I hope you appreciate that) and after ended up with this:

I'm sure I could have filled the background with white with some photo editing tool, but instead I used Google Gemini to do it for me, so yes, full disclosure, the first image is AI. It did clean up some of the tape and creases, which I didn't ask it to do; one of the things I don't like about Gemini, it takes liberties.

I have a love/hate relationship with AI.  It's very convenient for doing things like above, at the same time, there are skilled people who knew how to do that before AI, I just wasn't one of them, so it is nice for the layman, but not so good for the skilled people.

Now that I think of it, AI is a little like Witchcraft.