Journeys Of A Cricut Lover...: Sewing

Monday, June 28, 2010

Sparkles & Sunshine Birthday Card!

This sparkly creation is the end result of two challenges smooshed together! The first was a sketch at Pixie Cottage and the second was to make something "SHINE!" at Crafty Creations. I wish the pictures came out better, but there is "shine" from the Diamond Dust glitter on the Fairy's dress, Chunky White Glitter on the roses, Stickles on the fairy's wings & hair flower and various rhinestones.

Sorry for the blurry picture! The sentiment reads "May your day be filled with sparkles and sunshine! Happy Birthday".

This is what it looks like with the flash to show off the SHINE-factor!

--This project is entered in the following challenges--

Pixie Cottage - Sketch and Inside too!

Crafty Creations - SHINE!

Thanks for looking and please leave a comment so I know you were here!
~Hugs, JennRo~

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Flower Picking Fairy Easel Card!

Morning all! I got halfway through the previous post and we lost electricity from the bad storm we were having. :( Made me miss one of my favorite challenge blogs. :( Oh well! We were powerless from about 3pm-2am! Thankfully there are no little ones but the dog was super spooked! Poor baby. I don't think he's ever been in a power outage come to think of it.

Anywho, I created this next project with the Doodle Dragon Studios Challenge in mind because this time around we were challenged to use flowers!

You know, I LOVE my Dustin Pike images so...I thought this Teddy Fairy picking flowers was the perfect one. I colored him with pencils then stickled wings of another image I had printed and added glossy accents and stickles to the base image. When all that was dry, I cut out my second set of wings and adhered only the right side to the base image so I could curl them up! I then flocked the Teddy with Bearly Brown Stampin' Up Flocking Powder. I added Baby Pink FlowerSoft to the flowers on the ground and the one in his hand.

Again, once everything was dry, I added my Teddy friend to a dark pink circle with pop dots (of course! *smile*). I created the easel card and decided to go with blue papers to match the Teddy's outfit. I took on a challenge of my own when I decided to use the zigzag stitch on the sewing machine for the first time! After a few practice rounds I think the finished product came out pretty well! I stitched around the full inside panel and the half easel panel. Finally, on to the flowers! I decided rather than use pre-fab flowers I would once again make my own using my Cricut and the Create A Critter cartridge. (Have I mentioned lately I LOVE this cart.???!!!! lol) I cut fifteen flowers all together (at 2.5, 2 and 1.5inches) and matched them up in three's to create nice big (3-D) flowers! I doodled around the edges and pieced them together with brads. I adhered them all with pop dots. ;) I added white rhinestones to the tops of the brads to match the rhinestone brads I used on the base of the card to hold up my easel! I have discovered I very much like making easel cards and I didn't know how easy it was! LOVING them!