Happy Monday! I still cannot believe I’m in the Top 5 of the Paper Crafts Magazine’s Gallery Idol card contest. Thank you again for your sweet comments and votes for my Little Prince Themed card and help me to go to the final round. You’re all the best bloggie friends a girl could ever ask for! I really appreciate your support.
Now it’s time to focus on Final Round! The challenge is to create a card with adhesives in a fun/awesome/creative way! Then I decided to continue my fairy-tale series, and I chose one scene from Cinderella. Do you remember how Cinderella met a prince? It’s all because of her right shoe remained on the stairs. Cinderella’s glass slipper came off while she was escaping from castle in the story. But I want to reinterpret it in a modern way, so I imagined that her shoe was taken off by stepping on the chewing gum. Since I recreated the story, I changed her crystal shoe to the red high heel. Without further ado, here is what I came up with:
I really love how my card turned out, and I’m also proud myself that I kept true to my Clean and Simple style based on creativity. For my card, I started by designing my own images, castle, leg, and high heel, using Silhouette Design Studio. Then I heat embossed my high heel using Sparkle embossing powder and coated it with glossy accents. I used glue gun to create chewing gum and colored it with white acrylic paint. By the way, I’m sharing my cutting files I designed, and you can download HERE for only personal use. The file includes a high heel, leg, and castle.
Here is a detailed look of my card. The red glossy heel looks so fabulous with all the glitters. I love the drop shadow of heel created by popping it up with dimensional adhesive. The chewing gum looks a bit messy, but that’s what it’s supposed to look like. Isn’t it? What do you think? Hope you can catch the awesome details from the photo above. I’m so sure this card looks way better in real life.
For some of you who want to see the step-by-step tutorial, this is how I created my Cinderella Themed card. 1)Create a castle, high heeled shoe, and leg images using Silhouette design studio and cut them out using cutting machine. (Free cutting files download HERE for only personal use.) 2)Ink over the panel to blend in the colors using Distress inks: Broken China and Faded Jeans and Hero Arts Shadow Ink: Soft Pool. 3)Heat emboss the high heel with Sparkle embossing powder. 4)Color the edge of shoe with Strong Red Copic maker and adhere it on the leg, then pop it up on the panel using diminutional adhesive. Color some shade under the shoe using Netural Gray Copic marker. 5)Create a chewing gum using glue gun and paint it with white acrylic paint. Then place it under the heel. 6)Stamp the sentiment from Harold’s ABCs stamp set by Lawn Fawn. Finish off the card by applying some glossy accents on the high heel.
So there you have it – my entry for Final Round of the Gallery Idol card contest. Please go HERE to check out all the amazing entries, then vote for your favorite! If you want to cast your vote for my Cinderella Themed card, then you can find a direct link to my entry HERE! Your votes are going to make a big difference between moving on to the Top 1 and not. Thanks so much in advance for your kind words, encouragement, and votes. As always, I so appreciate you stopping by my blog today. Happy crafting!
Kim S
You are amazingly creative!! Sticky and Cinderella would not have come immediately to my mind – but it’s perfect!! Congratulations on all of your successes!
Jun . 18 . 2014Rachelle Olaridge
Totally fab and cute card. It is a winner!
Jun . 17 . 2014Michele Ferguson
No matter the results, May, you will always be one of my idols! Love your card, and your style =]
Jun . 17 . 2014beaumama
Winner, winner. Amazing design, amazing card. You ARE an IDOL!
Jun . 17 . 2014Cindy H.
Oh my gosh, this is totally AMAZING!!!! So VERY creative and wonderful! Good luck in your quest!
Jun . 17 . 2014lalo
Funny and so cute!
Jun . 17 . 2014wienerhoneymooners
May YOU ARE AWESOME!!!
Jun . 16 . 2014kerenbaker
This is just brilliant- inventive, clever and fun! Good luck- 😉 xx
Jun . 16 . 2014Jill
Awesome job May!! Wow–that shoe is a fun one! Your card is flawless and so well done! Congrats on top 5 and best of luck in this final round! It’s been so fun to be a part of it all! 🙂
Jun . 16 . 2014Joyce M.
This is just so fantastic. You must be a winner with this. OK, I’m off to vote for you.
Jun . 16 . 2014Judy1223
May! All I can say is WOW!!! Perfect interpretation of what might have happened to Cinderella’s shoe…a definite “oops” moment! Best of luck in the final round at Gallery idol!
Jun . 16 . 2014Jen W.
Another brilliant, clever and totally you creation, May! You are such an incredible talent! Good luck in the final!
Jun . 16 . 2014Marcie Sharp
May this is way too cool. I loooooove the modern Cinderella shoe. Perfect use of adhesive!
Jun . 16 . 2014hazelhodgkins
OH, I LOVE this!!! So awesome May!! You go,girl! Take it to the top!!!
Jun . 16 . 2014Yoonsun Hur
So clever!!! The sparkly red shoes is tempting!! May, It is fabulous!
Jun . 16 . 2014Iwona Palamountain (Chupa)
You’re so creative, May! This is AMAZEBALLS!!!
Jun . 16 . 2014Cham
I loved your modern Cinderella story!! Glue gun showed up reality.
Jun . 16 . 2014Best of luck to you!
Jaclyn Charette Miller
I just love how imaginative this is May! You are just so clever with all of your projects and I love that you create most of your own files. Best of luck!
Jun . 16 . 2014Sabrina Alery
I am smiling ear to ear over your fun interpretation of Cinderella! Stuck in gum would have been a much funner way to lose her shoe! Gorgeous card May!!
Jun . 16 . 2014BarbGhig
This is such a FABULOUS card, May! I just noticed the chewing gum, too…so clever and truly stunning! Best of luck to you!!!
Jun . 16 . 2014Judy
You are so imaginative and creative–very clever card!!
Jun . 16 . 2014Archana
Wow!! this is so amazing!! such a clever idea!!
Jun . 16 . 2014lisascreativeniche
wow this is so amazing!!! I love the whole thing! Congratulations!!!
Jun . 16 . 2014Miriam Prantner
Just so clever! I love the sparkly red shoes, I would buy some of those (and red is my favorite color too), and the gum is such a cute idea, it looks so real!
Jun . 16 . 2014tsurutadesigns
This is FABulous May! So creative and fun!
Jun . 16 . 2014