Simply Wonder Woman

I was the very lucky winner of Sketchy Colors' Sketch Challenge and received an awesome prize from Korthobby: a large bag of metal embellishments & charms all the way from Norway! I decided to make a Wonder Woman-themed card using one of my new metal embellishments & the 200th anniversary sketch at Freshly Made Sketches.

For the belt buckle, I heat-embossed the back of a metal embellishment from Korthobby with an antique-gold powder and carefully placed gemstones in some of the indented portions. Both the gemstones & the final metal piece were adhered with Glossy Accents. The friend I made this for loves pink, so I used pink gemstones.

I created the sentiment in SCAL and cut it from adhesive silver vinyl with my Silhouette Cameo. The red & blue portions are white cardstock inked with chalk inks. The belt is a scrap of gold paper. The little stars were also cut on my Silhouette, and were leftover from another project.

I'm pleased with how this came out ... almost like how it looked in my head!

Inspiration/Challenges:
Freshly Made Sketches: Sketch #200 + Clean Lines
The Paper Girls: Super Heroes
Sparkle N Sprinkle: AG with Embossing Powder etc.


Thank you for visiting & for inspiring my crafting,

Personalized Superhero Water Closet pun

image courtesy of QuickLOL

I was brainstorming ideas of how to use the "Restroom" symbol from Viva Las VegaStamps' Plate #917, and I remembered the funny joke (right) about the female symbol looking like it's wearing a cape. And then it hit me... it's Superman and Wonder Woman! I figured a million people had thought of this already, but if they had I didn't see it on Google... so do let me know if you've seen this before. There is nothing new under the sun, but occasionally you hit on something that people have, well, not seen recently.

I came up with this some months ago, but I never did make a card of it. However, the other day I saw on FaceBook that an uber-talented H.S. friend (aka MyRandomActs) designed the most amazing superhero-themed logos & invitations for her kids' joint birthday party. I wanted to make them a fun card, so I used this idea of mine to make this card with a pun on their surname, Culpepper:

Each color on the superheros, except the black base, was stamped separately and paper-pieced. The chipboard frame, metal letters, ribbons, metal frame, and star brads are from my stash (meaning, Mom sent them to me!). I made the cloudy background by inking the embossing folder before running it through my BigShot.

I'm entering this card into the following Challenges:
Crafting Musketeers #4: Sketch
Crafty Ribbons #58: Anything Goes with Ribbon


Here's a sneak-peak of some of the beautiful projects by MyRandomActs:

MyRandomActs on FaceBook

Thank you for visiting,

Super Baby

I'm an only child, but thanks to my husband's 3 fabulous siblings, we're up to 7 nephews & nieces (with one on the way)! Our newest nephew arrived just last week, and I sure had fun putting together the baby gift.

I've reconnected with a crafty friend from High School via FaceBook, and she sells her gorgeous handicrafts on Etsy at MyRandomActs on a special-order basis. For just $15 (including Priority shipping), she made these Baby of Steel "Superman" Mitts:

MyRandomActs

And here's how they were sent to me, wrapped so beautifully! That little tag she added is hand-stamped.

I wanted to wrap the mitts in a fun way, so I made a fabric pouch, using Timeless Treasures/Smirk Super Hero fabrics and some scrap white fabric:

And the back:

I started with the tutorial for an iPhone Case at During Quiet Time, but I made my own template in InDesign and pretty much just did it my own way. Not fancy, but it works! 

I've been itching to use this material since I bought it back in December, and I think it came out O.K. considering: 1) I've never done this before, 2) my machine was acting up so I had to remove the stitches a kagillion times, and 3) I totally refused to get out the iron. I broke a needle pulling that baker's twine through too!

The Newspaper-patterned buttons are from Daisy D's Paper Company.

Of course, I made a card as well:

You may remember the cityscape die cuts from several of my recent posts (archived here). The baby carriage rubber stamp is by Viva Las VegaStamps, and the sentiment is from a set that came with an issue of Cards Beautiful.

I used some Graphic 45 paper on the inside to give it more of a "baby" feel.

I wish I had taken a photo of everything all together, but it had been pouring for days while I put it all together and I simply couldn't get any good light. Anyway, it got in the mail just in time. I wish I could share a photo of our new nephew with you, but it goes without saying that he's super-cute at 6lbs 8oz!

Also, as total coincidence as I didn't know the little guy's name until his birth, the woman who made the mittens has a son with the same name as our nephew!

Thank you for visiting, and best to you & yours,