Tutu cute!

It's that time of year again -- teacher present time! I haven't figured out yet what I'm going to do for my daughter's preschool teachers (thankfully there's still a week of school left), but I did have to scramble for the dance teacher last week. I ran to Target for a gift card and plunked it inside of this card I made that reflects this year's dance recital costume:

It was actually pretty easy to make, once I saw the idea for a cupcake paper tutu on Pinterest. I could only find an aqua cupcake paper with white polka dots in my stash of baking goodies and I needed light blue. So I turned it inside out and sprayed it with my new Heidi Swap Color Mist in Ocean. If you haven't used these mists, try them out! I think they may be my favorite brand of spray ink as the color is predictable and consistent. I ordered them from www.joann.com when they had 50% off of all papercrafting supplies.

I freehand cut out a leotard and sprayed that with the same ink. Then I used Stickles around the the top to mimic tiny sequins. The bow and rose came from my stash  -- I've had them for years and finally found a use for them! I adhered with Zots glue dots. I really like the singles as opposed to the rolls -- much easier to apply in the right spot. 

The background is embossed with a butterfly embossing folder -- I think it's made by Darice. The card is 5 by 7 so and the embossing folder only 4.24 by 5.5 so I had to trim the panel in width and allow the bottom inch or so to remain unembossed. It left a perfect place to add my daughter's teacher's name, which I stamped with mini lettters using Colorbox Chalk Ink in Pink Pastel, ran through my Xyron, cut out invididually, inked the edges and then adhered. Then I used the Tim Holz ink blending tool with the sponge pad and the same ink to lightly apply pink to highlight the butterflies.

 
 I wrapped a piece of butterfly washi tape around the butterfly panel between the end of the embossing and the stamped name. Finally I mounted the butterfly panel onto a purple panel and then onto a white 5 by 7 card.

It came out so cute that I'm wishing I had made another tutu to use as an embellishment on the scrapbook page I'll make of my daughter's dance recital!