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Saturday, August 22, 2009

Be an Original!

Coffee of the Day - French Vanilla

I haven't had a chance to take part in any challenges in a while, so I decided to try out the one for the week over at Shirley's 2 Girls. We were to follow a sketch as well as use a punch on our design. I chose to use this adorable digi that just makes me smile every time I see her! The scan doesn't show just how super shiny and glittery the card really is irl!


I started with my go-to papers of late, the K & Co. Wild Raspberry collection. Of course I had to do some distressing, so the edges of the main card were inked with vanilla craft and then painted with buttercream shimmerz to glimmer-ize! The glasses she is wearing are just like my reading glasses, right down to the rhinestones! I love these glasses!!!! They were painted with pink shimmerz. Her cute cami top is painted in pink and buttercream shimmerz and the straps are outlined in a spica glitter pen. The fab hat is covered in polka dots that I added with my white gel pen, and the fun arrangement on top is outlined with the glitter pen as well. I used the spica pen to outline other various areas of the card & painted the smaller of the Prima flowers in the buttercream shimmerz, too. Buttons are SU!, border punch is Martha Stewart, ribbon is a remnant I picked up at WallyWorld the other day for less than 10 cents! The word 'original' is painted with the pink shimmerz also. I told you this little puppy is shiny!! :D The card measures 6" x 6" square.


Play in a challenge over the weekend if you get the chance. They really are fun and do stretch your creativity! And remember to 'be an original'! No one else was made to be you! :)
p.s. and I forgot to tell all of you that I made the DT for Sewn Together Digital Images! I look forward to creating all kinds of things with these unique digis! Congrats to the other ladies! I'll get their blogs listed this weekend.

17 comments:

Pat (mspfd) said...

Jennifer, this is a beauty. Love the Gracie Original. Thanks so much for playing with us. Sure hope you join us again next week when we Paint the Town Red for Twisted Thursday!

~Jeri~ said...

Very cute card!! Congrats on making the design team over at sewn together! I look forward to working with ya!!

lisa808 said...

Congrats on your DT position!

Dru said...

Very cute - love the colors!

Scrapping Julie said...

your card is soooo cute. i wish i could see all of the shimmer. i am sure it is just perfect in real life. CONGRATS on the DT !!!!

Becky said...

This is too cute, I love her :).

i {heart} papers said...

This is adorable. I love the pink!

Unknown said...

such a cute card. I have that paper and I haven't played with it yet. I guess I need to pull it out. Congrats on making the design team!!!!

Unknown said...

She looks fabulous! Nice job with the challenge.

Leigh Ann Baird said...

Love the layout on this card! Great work as usual!

Justine said...

You really bring miss Gracie to life. Great job and thank you so much for playing. Congratulations, on the DT

Anonymous said...

JENNIFER...cute!!! you did a fab job on our twist this week! thanks so much for playing with us! DEIDRE

Gina Lindsay said...

Super cute! I love their challenges and have tried to play every week since I discovered them. Congrats on the new DT!

Anita said...

Congrats! I like your coffee for the day. The card is so beautiful. I believe that you can never have too much shimmer. LOL!

"Luv 2 Glitter" by Brenda M. said...

This is definitely a fun card.....great image and coloured so perfectly. One can never have enough bling....shimmery....glitter

Debbie said...

Jennifer...Love your card. Gracie just pops off the card! Love all of the shimmery glitter! Thanks for playing with us over at shirleys2girls Twisted Thursday and hope to see you play with us again next week.

Karolyn at Paper Therapy said...

Holy smokes!! This is DARLING!! That Gracie image just makes me smile, and you've surrounded her with some amazing beauty! Thanks so much for playing Twisted Thrusday with us - looking forward to seeing MORE!!