Pinktober at Crafting with Dragonflies

This fortnight at Crafting with Dragonflies our theme is Pinktober / Support Breast Cancer Awareness. I used Fashion model with Beehive Hairdo by SLS Lines to create this BCA card for a friend:

Inspiration/Challenges:
ABC Challenge: T is for Two
Crafty Boots: Pink

Tuesday Throwdown #267: You Have My Support
Eclectic Ellapu (Pink Team): For a Cause
Ooh La La Creations: Pretty in Pink

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Pilin' on the Funky & Freaky

The theme this week at Pile It On is Funky and/or Freaky. We're sponsored by SLS Lines, so I used their lovely Zentangle Fashion Lady digi stamp:

Inspiration/Challenges:
Crafts Galore Encore: Halloween OR Make a Card
Fab 'n' Funky #276: Sassy Ladies
Our Crafty Corner October Challenge: Anything Goes/Getting ready for Halloween
Love to Scrap: Ribbon or Lace + digi stamp
Sparkle N Sprinkle October Challenge: Use loose glitter, embossing powder and/or flocking (loose glitter on clear tape holding ribbon)
Suzy Bees: Something that Starts with S (Sea creatures)
Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2: Sketch #70
Whoopsi Daisy October Challenge: Hand colored image (colored pencils & Copics)

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Pilin' on the Historical Puns

The theme this week at Pile It On is Not Cute. You can interpret that however you like, as long as the project doesn't feel cutesy. Our sponsor, SLS Lines, has lots of funky images, and I used this unique Marie Antoinette with Cupcakes to make this rather macabre birthday card:

I couldn't resist using this sentiment! Come on, all I know about Marie Antoinette is that she liked cake, met with a bad end, and bragged to have inspired the champagne glass. I feel a bit guilty about making light of it all, but I'm certainly not the first! I used the Zapfino font for the sentiment, printed it on white paper, and cut/embossed them with a Spellbinders die.

I used a glue pen to cover her hair with white flocking, cutting small slits in which to place the cupcakes and glasses. I printed the image twice, fussy-cutting the cupcakes out, but leaving some paper so that I could fit them into the slits. I added die-cut champagne glasses (from a Memory Box set) to her beehive to add to the decadence. The images are colored with Copics, and I used a Pearl Pen on her earrings.

The frame is a Silhouette cut file. I cut both layers from the same shiny gold paper, but I heat-embossed the top piece with gold powder. The crown-patterned paper is a DP from my stash.

Challenges/Inspiration:

1. Crafting for all Seasons: Birthday + 4 of something (4 metal champagne glasses)
2. Crafts for Eternity #226: Wood (wood veneer bird embellishments)
3. Creative Card Crew #87: Embossing (Wet embossing on outer frame)
4. DoubleClick Skittles #22: Happy Birthday
5. DRS Designs: Birds and/or Bees (wood veneer bird embellishments)
6. Ike's World Challenge: Naughty or Nice (pun is naughty in a macabre way)
7. Loves Rubber Stamps #151: Add a Sentiment
8. Red Rubber Inspirational #220: Sassy Women
9. Ruby's Rainbow: Humor
10. Snarky Stampers: Cake

Update: This was chosen as an Inspiration Project from Red Rubber's "Sassy Women" Inspirational Challenge!

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