Pin-Up Girls Series ~ Flirt

Today is the last day in the Pin-up Girls Series.  I created all of these cards as a birthday present for my bestie.  She loves pin-up girls and I thought it would make a fun and unique gift.

The negligee is cut from the Cricut cartridge Sweethearts.  I embossed the darker pink layer and sewed my pink ribbon on.  I added a single seam binding ribbon in white and a white linen thread tie as well.

To create the lace texture of the negligee, I cut it in pink cardstock, red cardstock, and pink vellum.  I started with the pink cardstock and then added the red cardstock for the bra portion.  Next, I embossed the pink vellum.  When you emboss vellum, it creates a lot of texture because the raised portion turns lighter (even when using clear or white vellum).  This technique really added to this cut because it really made it look like lace.  I then sprayed the negligee with SmoochSpritz in a pearl finish and added mini Stampin' Up! pearls to the bra portion to complete the look.

 If you are wondering where I purchased the pin-up girl pins, I bought them on EBAY:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/160578199954?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649

I hope you have enjoyed viewing this series as much as I had creating it!  Thank you for visiting daily and leaving such lovely comments.  Happy Creating!

Ball & Chain

For this month's Cricut Circle's Magazine Challenge, we were given a sketch to follow.  This is my interpretation of the sketch, a ball and chain:

And here is the sketch:

The ball is the ice cream cut from Sweet Tooth boxes cut at 11.5" and represents the circle in the sketch.  The chain is cut by hand from the left over grey from the 12x12 cardstock I used.  The rectangle pieces are 3.8" x 1.0" qty = 18.  I also cut 18 patterned rectangles at 3.8" x .5".  The smaller rectangles are adhered to the larger rectangles to represent the layered band in the sketch.  After creating my chain, I connected it to the ball and added the hand cut cuff to the chain, again using the leftover grey cardstock cut at 8.25" x 1.5".  I trimmed the edges in to connect it to the chain.  Next, I cut the lock to represent the heart in the sketch and the key to represent the rectangle.  I pop dotted the heart pieces for dimension and inked the edges.  Last, I cut the sentiment from Tie the Knot and added it to the cuff.  The smaller heart is the leftover heart from the key image. 

I created this treat box to hold a gift card or small present for the newly wed couple. 

Gypsy File:

http://www.box.net/shared/p6h61ykejzgvas7jgrdv