MFT - Superstar Card Contest

What a fun contest!  It certainly got my juices flowing.  I am entering this card in the My Favorite Things Superstar Card Contest.

 I have a friend who could use a little cheering up and thought this sweet card would do the trick.

I was looking through my MFT stamps and these two sets fell out together.  I think it must be a sign! lol  The sentiment "Fabulous is a frame of mind." and the Geek is Chic glasses die.  What can I say? It just makes me happy.  The background is another beautiful set called Garden Flourish Background. I cut five pairs of glasses with the die and then inked them with an Ombre Pink to Red ink pad.  They were then glued together and coated with Glossy Accents.  I added a couple of rhinestones and some cute googly eyes.  They are girly eyes because they have a little bit of an eyelid and some lashes. Thanks so much for coming by to look!

The Recipe:

MFT Geek is Chic glasses, Harlequin & Cross Stitch Circle

MFT Tickled Pink - sentiment and Garden Flourish Background

Ombre ink - Red to Pink & Butter to Orange

Googly eyes - Walmart

Just Us Girls #263 - Color Week

This week at Just Us Girls it's Color Week, and Lisa has picked a really fun color combo for us, Purple, Olive and Navy.  Here is how I was inspired!

I watched a video of Jennifer McGuire's on No Mess Glitter Die Cuts and fell in love with this die set from My Favorite Things called Geek is Chic.  I didn't add glitter to mine because I didn't have the double sided tape that she used, but here is what I did.  I first cut one pair of glasses out of white card stock.  I inked the bottom half of the glasses with navy ink and the top with purple ink.  I then cut four pairs of glasses from navy and purple card stock and glued them together.  I glued the inked pair to the top and then coated it with Glossy Accents.  After it dried, I applied another coat of Glossy Accents. These glasses are so stinking cute and shiny.  You would never know they were made of paper.  I just realized as I'm writing this post that while the green is supposed to be olive, I had in my mind lime, so my green is a little on the light side.  I black embossed the sentiment onto Vellum.

The Recipe:

My Favorite Things Geek is Chic

Spellbinders Standard Circles and Scalloped Circles

Cuttlebug Spots and Dots

GKD Wild Lilac, Navy & Black Onyx CS

Glossy Accents

Wiggly Eyes

Please visit the Just Us Girls blog to see the wonderful cards the rest of the team and our GD, Wanda Cullen, have made this week.  I hope you will be inspired and play along.  We would love to see what you create!

If you win Chic of the Week in any of our October challenges, you will be in the running to be chosen has our Guest Designer for the month of December.  Good luck!