Challenge.......Yellow tin

Here is another challenge I participated in since I had a new partner for a couple of days at the West Valley store. I was lucky enough to work with the lovely and talented Lisa Sims, famous for her role in the cricut infomercial. She had brought these simple yellow tins in, and they made a perfect starting point for our little challenge. So the rules we came up with were that we had to use the tin, black vinyl and just the cartridges we were demoing. As we have done for other challenges we invited the public to vote for their favorite.Mine....Yellow tin, words (Smile, inspire, and wish)from Gypsy wanderings. The small whiteish flowers were welded together and cut from thin magnet material then I inked and added a paper layer on top of the magnet. I used the crop-a-dile to punch holes in the center of the flower so the tin could be used as a ribbon holder/dispencer. (Thank you, I thought it was a brilliant idea too...) I used accent essentials for the white layered flower on the top, and also added the words "Be creative"......one of my favorite mantras, to the top of the tin. One more thing... I made the brad using the Itop tool, and a yellow cut from the accent essentials cart. It has the perfect shape for doing the Itop, try it out. It is fast becoming one of my favorite tools.
Lisa's version......... Now when I saw this finished, I conceded the challenge. I thought it was beautiful. The beautiful black vinyl design on the bottom was a cut from Storybook she welded together several times. I LOVE the way that looks, so elegant. She added the words "Be Happy" to the top of the tin, and of course also made a beautiful layered flower in Pink. The bee is from Sentimentals, ( I may buy that cartridge just for the bee cut, it is beautiful). She popped the bee up with a couple of foam pop dots. Of course she added the cute black ribbon with the yellow brads to finish it off. BEE-U-TI-FUL........

So we started the voting, and no surprise...... LISA'S WAS THE FAVORITE. If I were voting, I would have picked hers too, so no surprise to me. There is always next week, and I have a great idea....... See you then.
Lori