More vs Less

I was enabled to need a die based on seeing this card:

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Isn't that stinkin' cute? I needed the caterpillar die, and I got it. Yesterday I made myself open and use it. By now you know I can't 100% CASE anything; I have to make it my own. Well, I got pretty close to a 100% CASE when I made this:

only mine suks and hers doesn't. I hate detest my version. It's too much, plus I dislike the colors of green I chose. And I tried gluing the googly eyes over the flock and it didn't work and one of them fell off when I took this photo. And I used the stems die I had and I had to piece it and then I had to add butterflies (they were laying on my desk, unloved) to hide the seams.

I also cut four of the caterpillar die and stacked each of the body parts four deep. I wish I'd been drunk so I wasn't cursing myself for that hair-brained idea. I was also cursing myself for not having red, orange and yellow flock, because caterpillars are fluffy, you know.

All in all, I was most unhappy. Although, I did like my idea of adding some dots to the body parts. I do like those.

Discouraged, I tried a less-complicated version of the card, and I made this:

I cut the caterpillar out of the white layer, colored it with a tan marker, and pieced it back in. Then I added glue and brown flock so it was all fuzzy:

I popped the strips of grass on dimensional adhesive so it looks like he's peeking out from his hiding place. :) And so far the eyes are still stuck to the flock.

I like the Less version a lot more than the More version. I'd even make it again!

About that green card stock: I bought a pack of Core'dinations Minty Fresh card stock at a big box store because it was on sale and I liked the blues and greens in the pack. When I opened it, I found that even though the sheets are textured, which I love, they are very VERY thin and flimsy. This is actually good since I planned to use it as layers, but for the grass, for example, if I'd used a larger die, I fear the paper would have flopped over unless I'd layered it. Yeah, it's that thin.

So now I can check off one more thing from my "not yet used" box and move on to something else. What will it be? I'll probably surprise myself!

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Products used: Poppy Stamps Cute Caterpillar die, Core'dinations Minty Fresh textured card stock paper, SU 2-way glue pen, SU brown flock, A Muse cloud dies, SU Dimensionals, and the following:

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A Fuzzy Blue Kitteh

Today is a special birthday! It is! Today my bloggy and tweepy pal Lydia, aka: UnderstandBlue, is one year older and better! I used that excuse to make her a card using a stamp she designed herself, modeled after one of her kitties: Maddie.

Here's the card, then I'll explain:

First, I have to tell you whoever called it Fun Flock was a liar. Or maybe I don't use it enough to get good at it, which is a distinct possibility. ANYway, I was going to ink up the Maddie* stamp in the colors of her two kittehs, but instead I decided to make it blue, in honor of her special day, and because I kinda doubt anyone else got her a blue kitteh. And if they did, I'm okay with it!

The kitteh is a bit demonic, and that was not intentional. I colored her eyes with a green glitter pen before I flocked her (yes, all stamping terms sound dirty), and I colored the little heart with a red glitter pen, too, but post-flocking, well, see for yourself:

Her flocking got in her eyes. :(

Every time I use the Maddie stamp I cut her out and leave the tail all curly like that. Hopefully Lydia will be so wowed by the fuzzy blue kitteh that she'll overlook the demonic thing.

Anyway, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Lydia! May you have many mooooooooore!

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*You can purchase your own sassy Maddie stamp here.