Distressed Lady Bug -- Chirper Challenge

I’ve been so busy getting the pre-wedding stuff done that I forgot to get my Chirper Challenge card up. So, now here we go!

The challenge this time was a very difficult one for me. It is to use no patterned paper with black as the background with bright colors and stitching or doodling in black or white using this sketch.

I definitely wouldn’t be doing a scrapbook page. The dark colors were way to much of a challenge there. I actually dreamt about what I was going to do it was on my mind so much. I thought I would do a lady bug cad with the Black Magic paper from Core’dinations.

I used the ladybug cut from the Walk in my Garden cartridge. (After I finished the card, I realized there was a cuter lady bug on the Doodlebugs cartridge that I wish I would have used.) The letters are the standard cut from Lyrical Letters.

The great thing about Black Magic paper is that it is colored on one side and has a coating of black on the other side of the paper. I demonstrated three ways of using it on this card. First of all, I drew around the lady bug with a white pencil, removed her and then sanded around the white pencil marks. This takes a little more than I thought it would. I used a nail block but I think I needed one with a little more grit.

The second and third techniques are on the flower. I crinkled the paper and then sanded the crinkles. Then I tore out the individual circles and stuck them together with a brad. When you tear the paper it leaves a pink border around the black.

I also distressed just about everything. I sanded the sides of the cardstock. I used black chalk on all the pink paper except the letters and put a little ink on the brad. I doodle stitched around the lady bug and her dots and I put some dots on the letters.

I gave the lady bug wiggly eyes and I mounted the whole thing onto dark grey cardstock.

The Black Magic card stock was hard to find. I had heard about it before but I hadn’t seen it in any of my LLSs. I had some errands to run including a stop at Joanns so I drove around one day hitting some stores with no luck of finding it. I did get the number of a store in a town about an hour away that probably had it. At my last stop, Joanns where I knew they didn’t have it, I was looking through the DP as I always do and, guess what? They have it now. I bought two sheets and only used 1/2 sheet to make this card. Now I have more to play with.

Sorry once again that I didn’t get this posted. I could have done it last night but it just slipped my mind.

If you have a Cricut and what to play along, go to the Chirper Challenge blog to read about the challenge and look at all the lovely layouts and cards the other Chriper’s made.

Blessings,

Christine