Color Challenge: Silly Crazy Cousins

I love a challenge!  The color challenge on the Circle Blog threw me for a loop though, for some reason.  I had an idea and cut my elements and.... nothing.  After the Mess On Your Desk timed challenge (my previous post), I got a fun, creative boost, changed the photo, and started fresh!  I found some old photos of my daughter and her cousins on my computer and the silliness inspired me to go in a new direction.

This is my entry for the Cricut Circle Blog NSD Crop:  Color Challenge.

We were given a picture with a color palette to use and I actually had the papers!  *miracle!*

For the crafty how-to:

• I hand-cut the aqua base mat and green stripe.  
• The daisy border was from Paper Trimmings (page 37), cut at 1"  (Fit-to-Length was 11.5").
• The Circle border was from Elegant Edges (page 24), cut at 1-1/4" (Fit-to-Length was 11.25").
• The semi-circle with daisies was from Pretty Pennants, cut at 5-1/4" (Fit-to-Length was 9-3/4").
• The face was from Paper Play (page 12), cut at 8".  Popped up at 1/8".
• The crown was from Rock Princess (page 39), cut at 1".
• "Crazy" was from Mickey Font, cut at 1-3/4" and embossed with Cuttlebug Chevron.  Popped up 1/16".
• "Silly" was from Quarter Note, cut at 2", embossed with Swiss Dots, and inked.  Letters were not welded, just cut and glued together.  I overlapped the two "L"s a bit.  Popped up 1/16".
• "Cousins" was from Art Deco, cut at 2-1/4" for the "C" and 1-1/2" for other letters.  I created a wonky-striped paper from which to cut the letters.  Because of all the adhered layers, I used multi-cut 3.

Thank you for checking out my blog post!  I have several more Challenges from the Circle Blog NSD posts to try to crank out.  Hoping to get at least one more done today... fingers crossed!

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