Flip-flopper

When I saw the freebie for the current Tellen's Place Challenge, I just had to mix it with the Flip-flop Card technique and the flip-flop digis I snagged from Shelly's Images.

I was really inspired by the Buttons, Bows, Brads & Bling recipe at Dutch Dare Card Challenges. Happily, I had 2 sizes of blingy brads and star buttons that matched the paper perfectly.I used my Crop-O-Dile to punch a hole in the flower brad to insert the sentiment brad.

For the large flip-flops, I printed 2 pairs and popped it with foam tape. I edged the buttons, flip-flops, flower & sentiment brads, and mats with Copics.

Here's the front, card closed:
...and opened:
Here's the back, card closed:
...and opened:
Inspiration:
Tellen's Place Designs: Anything Goes
DDCC #121: Buttons, Bows, Brads and Bling

Swing (Flip Flop) Card tutorial: Splitcoast Stampers (with printable template)

Digi stamps: Swimsuit Jess by Tellen's Place Designs, Flip Flops 2 by Shelly's Images
Paper: Core'dinations, Hammermill, stash
Tools: Fiskars papercutter & finger knife, Tim Holtz scissors, HP printer & ink, Adobe InDesign, Crop-O-Dile II, needle
Other: ZipDry glue, Versamark & Memento inks, Copic markers, Sakura gel pen, Smirk glitter pen, CraftSmart Embroidery thread, awl, buttons from stash (thanks Mom!)
Brads: Oriental Trading Co., Recollections

Update 6/25/11: Wow! This card won the Tellen's Place Designs: Anything Goes Challenge. Thank you!

Slightly cracked and a little blue

I haven't participated in Dutch Dare Challenges recently, but I couldn't pass up the current one: Use the Cracked Glass technique. You know how I love a new technique...and heating four layers of embossing powder is my idea of a good time! It was really really fun.

The color inspiration is from the iCopic Monochromatic Challenge, but I'm not entering it into the challenge because I didn't really color with copics. I did, however, use copics for all the coloring. Boy are those great markers! I stamped the images in Baja Breeze Memento ink (both from Stampendous) on letterpress paper, then used BG10 liquid for the background and B00, B000, B32 & BG15 for details.

I made the card and frames in SCAL, did a little light distressing with sandpaper (after the paper was cut but was still on the mat), and voilà.