Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Va-va-vroom

I just adore this free digi stamp from Floweret, and thought it would be fun to paper piece it for this week's Paper Pretties Challenge. I decided to go way outside my comfort zone and went PINK for this week's Speedy Fox & Friends Challenge at Mark's Finest Papers.

I also played a little Tic-Tac-Toe with the Card Crafter's Circle (see the board below). I chose the right-to-left diagonal: Embossing, Digi, Bling.

I dry-embossed the bottom of the Kraft piece using a Tim Holtz Texture Fades folder, and ink-distressed it a bit with Rose Bud Memento ink.

The stitching is actually a stamp from the great Stitchery Doo set by SP & Company. I stamped it in Memento Tuxedo Black and heat-embossed it with Kaleidoscope embossing powder from Stampendous! for a little bit of Bling. I also heat-embossed the Hero Arts sentiment, with MS pink powder.

For the paper-piecing, I used about every piece of pink paper in my stash! Eight papers in total, plus a white piece that I built onto. The skin is actually a light pink... I added color to the hair, light & seat with Copics.

I strung some bakers twine across the background, and popped up the image piece with foam tape. I added a pink gemstone to her helmet for a final touch, and she's OFF!

Thanks for visiting!
Update: Many thanks to Floweret for spotlighting this card on her blog!


Card Crafter's Circle Challenge #15
Inspiration/Challenges:
Card Crafter's Circle Challenge #15: TIC TAC TOE - Embossing, Digi, Bling
Paper Pretties Monday Challenge: Paper Piecing/Piercing

Mopedbrud digi stamp by Floweret (thank you!)


8 comments:

  1. She looks fantastic, love the paper piecing and your Kraft background. Hugs lin

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  2. Hats off to you for using up those 8 pink papers! Awesome job!
    Cheers
    Sonia
    cardsandschoolprojects.blogspot.com

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  3. You did your very best to "turn" me to purple, and here you are, goin' all girly 'n pink on me...haaa!
    And what a great job you did, too....I really like the look of that heat embossing, and the little pink gem is a giggle....love every bit of this! Now you have to go buy some pink paper, lol.....and thank you for entering the challenge at Card Crafter's Circle...good luck!

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  4. What a cute card! Adorable little motorbike girl and I LOVE this dry embossing, so creative ! Thanks for playing in the challenge this week at Card Crafter’s Circle. So glad you could join us!
    Trish Munro
    http://trishandtreasure.blogspot.com/
    Card Crafter’s Circle Design Team

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  5. Cute image. Thanks for joining SpeedyFox and Friends.

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  6. Cute card. The Kraft paper really compliments the pink. Thanks for playing along with us here at Speedy Fox and Friends challenge, we hope to see you again next week. Make sure to check out our challenge with Friends of SpeedyTV for more fun and more chances to win with Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

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  7. Love the image and the embossing and baker's twine fit in so well.
    Monica xxx

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  8. Thank you ever so much for sharing this lovely card and it warms my heart to see what good use my digi came to here. Lots of hugs and wish you all the best, greetings from Sweden!

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