Wicked Wednesday Life's a Beach Challenge

Over at Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenge Life's a Beach so I couldn't resist doing a little quickie with my foot paper clips. I found these babies at WalMart back in 2008 and for awhile I used them quite a lot.  You can see those posts HERE. Notice they're blue, 'cause that's what color my toes generally turn in the wet sand. LOL  Papers are from the really old DCWV Summer glitter stack, the letters are Sticko.  Didn't have any sand so I used some vermiculite.  As usual, the DT is fabulously inspirational so pop on over to WW and check it out.  I'm also entering this in the ATC's and Cards with Attitude Anything Goes Challenge, Simon Says Stamp Tags or ATC's Challenge and the Simply Create Too Summer/Vacation Challenge.

Witch's Shoe

I'm so excited! With this card post I'm officially up to date. Boy I better start creating or you'll have nothing new to look at for awhile. Hopefully this will encourage me to speed up my production. I'm such a snail when it comes to crafting. LOL I made this card using Cricut design studio and the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge welding a rectangle from Plantin Schoolbook to the witch's shoe for a stocking. The papers are from BoBunny, Debbie Mumm, DCWV, and Provocraft. Because the shoes come is pairs on the cart I used the 12x 24" mat and cardstock to fit them both in. I suppose you could try and move one of the pairs off the mat to cut on a smaller one, but this way I've got another base to decorate. (Let's see if that happens before Halloween. LOL) I used the drippy goo and bat border punches (the little stars were added with another punch) for her sock cuff. You really couldn't see the cutouts because of the striped paper so I stickled some orange paper and put it under the border to make it show up better. The frogs are also from PDDU , the web is a MS punch and the little spiders are brads. This was my first time using my cropadile Big Bite for the giant eyelets which I laced with ribbons. There is a whole lotta pop dotting going on and I was thrilled to find black ones made by EKSuccess. Inside the sentiment was cut directly from cardstock and backed by 4 punched scallop squares. The little feet were sent to me by a cricut mb member who liked my other paper clip cards and had found additional colors. (Isn't that sweet? People are sooooo generous over there.) I couldn't resist adding a passed out froggie and spider hanging upside down. Whew! STINKY FEET.

Lei Back and Relax

I made this for my good friend and next door neighbor who was going to Hawaii. It is still one of my very favorite cards and was soooo much fun to do. I was excited to get the oppor- tunity to use this sort of tropical paper from the DCVW Summer glitter stack. The words were all cut from Plantin School- book (roly poly) and the flowers are from A Walk in my Garden doodled to look like hibiscus. They were strung on DMC floss to look like a lei and I added tiny ribbon stamins. I made little flip flops for the foot paper clips with cardstock, ribbon, flower buttons and skittles but they just didn't look right without soles so I added some of corregated (sp?) cardboard. This made the card pretty thick so I used the crayon box on Tags, Bags, Boxes and More to make a matching envie. Thank goodness she lives next door so I could hand deliver it. I wish the pics had been in better focus but you get the idea.

Sweet Baby Boy

I'm still lovin' those little foot paper clips so I decided to use them on a baby card. The patterned paper is from the DCWV Nana's Nursery baby boy glitter mat stack and the solid pastels are from the Best Occasions pearlescent paper pack from Walmart. Sweet boy is cut from the All Mixed Up cartridge, the scalloped circles are from Accent Essentials. I cuttled behind the feet with Swiss dots, and used my scor-pal on the lower half of the card. I strung alpha beads and pastel buttons on a wine charm ring and added some organdy ribbon. Sure wish those little feet came in pink!

Chill Dude

I found the cutest foot paper clips at Walmart and knew they would be just darling on a card. The first thing I thought of was sort of a "hang 10" sort of thing, especially when I saw the sand and surfboard paper in the DCWV Summer glitter stack. I thought this would make a great birthday card for a teenage boy. Chill is cut from All Mixed Up and Dude from Plantin Schoolbook using the roly poly feature. The waves are from Zoobaloo. It's your day is from Celebrations and the exclamation point is hand cut from the card stock.