Don't Be A Square Challenge

The latest challenge on The Greeting Farm blog is to make a non-square or non-rectangle card. I decided to make Angel Anya sitting on a cloud:


I cut the cloud on my Cricut using the Hello Kitty Greetings cart, and used Design Studio to make it into a card and sized it how I wanted. I also cut an extra full cloud shape, and then a smaller shape to serve as the pattern for the felt. I cut out the white felt and hand-stitched it onto the extra cloud shape with light pink rayon embroidery floss (it has a slight sheen that's really pretty). I stuffed it just a little so it has a nice puff.

Angel Anya has multiple layers for dimension that you can see better in this shot:


I added an extra face, bangs, arms and wings, as well as a paper pieced bow and dress. For the wings, I outlined with a Stardust glitter pen, then drew the glitter around with my waterbrush. This method fills in the area with a more subtle glitter sparkle than just filling in with the pen. I then went over the lines with Stickles. I also Stickled the halo.

I attached tiny little bows to her dress and a half pearl to her bow. The beaded pin is Making Memories, the ribbon is May Arts, the tag is Spellbinders and the sentiment is Stamping Bella.

Here's a shot of the inside where you can see I created a mirror image Anya. I paper pieced, embellished and colored her the same as the outside, but I didn't do all the 3D work:


I did this because I didn't want to hand draw a back to her, and I didn't want just a plain white back, or even worse, the back of my cardstock where the Copics bled through!

I really like shaped cards, so this was a super fun challenge for me! TFL!

Hello Kitty Heart Card and an Award!

I decided to make some Valentine's cards, so I looked through the images available on the Hello Kitty Greetings cartridge and found this heart:

I cut the image at 2 3/4". I used the DCWV Glitter Cardstock for the wings, The Sweet Stack for the background, and some Bazzill Bling for the heart. I was a little disappointed with the Bling cardstock. I thought it would be glittery, but it's got more of a pearl sheen. Still pretty, but I think it's a little too subtle for something called "bling."

I did the scalloped bottom with the Stampin' Up! punch, and then pierced through each scallop. There's some simple straight stitching, and the ribbon is May Arts. Hope you like it!

I got an award from the super sweet Enjoli over at Stamping Under the Sun. I'm supposed to name 5 things I'm addicted to. Here are the first five I thought of (I've got a very obsessive personality so it's pretty hard to name just 5!).

These apply right now (it changes almost daily):
1. DH's unbelievably *awesome* coconut oatmeal cookies
2. The Twilight series
3. My Cricut
4. Patterned paper
5. Playing Picross on my DS

Thanks so much Enjoli - you made my day!!

More Hello Kitty & Blog Candy

I'm still loving the Hello Kitty cartridges so I have a few more projects to share today. The first two aren't actually HK images, but they are on the cartridges and I liked the look of them too!

The strawberry is from the HK Greetings cartridge, the frame is from Fabulous Finds, and the font is Plantin Schoolbook.

This cupcake is also from the Greetings cartridge. It was super easy because the cartridge already has the card design built in so I didn't even have to design it myself. I embellished it a bit by crimping the liner, adding some glossy glue to the cherry, and some chunky glitter to the frosting. I also added a white liner so I could write in it with a regular pen.

This HK is from the Font cartridge and because it doesn't have a card function, I had to design it with the Design Studio software.

I did the fold at the top of her head so a little of the bow got cut off, but once I added the patterned paper, I barely noticed it. I added some Stickles to her wings and did a bunch of tracing of the designs on the PP with a Stardust glitter pen for a more subtle sparkle.

The patterned paper is from the K&Co. Berry Sweet paper pad.

And now for the blog candy part of the post: the DoodleFactory has a bunch of brand new stamps just in time for Valentine's Day cards and they're giving away a whole set. Check it out here. Aren't they adorable!?!

I got a Cricut Expression!

Woohoo! I'm having SO much fun playing with it! Of course I went totally overboard and got a ton of cartridges and a jukebox and the Design Studio software.

The first thing I had to play with were the two Hello Kitty cartridges. LOVE them - too cute!!

And then I had to create a template in Design Studio. You weave 2 pieces together to make this cute heart.

It's done with Plantin SchoolBook and I copied a Hot Off the Press template called Scandinavian Hearts. It was actually easier than I thought and a lot of fun to figure it out! I will definitely be looking around for other things to design!

Hope you don't mind a bunch of non-stamping projects, because I'll be posting a lot more Cricut projects in the future! TFL!