another a*muse*a*palooza challenge 2 design! as i was working on the last one--cute design, but pretty obvious--i saw this little girl on my desk from mignon's birthday invitation. (i keep too many scraps on my desk!) it occurred to me that if you cut out the middle of the pool and put the paper doll in there, it could be a floatie ring! i cut off her legs because i wanted it to look like she was floating on the ric rac water, but she was also cute standing in it. to give the ring dimension, i put a small strip of foam tape between her body and the front of it and used flat adhesive to place it on the card. also, i used a glaze pen over the pool image to give in a plastic look, but it changed the color of my ink. it looks a lot like a floatie ring we used to have, but it did make the dots harder to see, especially in the picture. now that i've done a few a muse cards, i need to focus on shopping bag props for mignon's recital...
enjoy!
:) lexi
