Do you know how much I love Hello Kitty? My Bitten by the Bug 2 design team sister, the lovely Theresa, actually had no idea that Kitty is one of my favorite characters - and character cartridges - when she selected this Halloween outfitted Kitty as our challenge cut of the week. But how can you not love a trick or treat Hello Kitty?
I used Cricut Design Studio and two cartridges to create this card: Hello Kitty Greetings and Happy Hauntings. All of the character cuts were from HKG, with only the spiderweb card coming from the Happy Hauntings cartridge. The spiderweb card was created by welding to spiderwebs together. I used CDS's Hide Select Contour feature (right click the cut, see the bottom item on the list) to hide the inside cuts on one of the spiderwebs. The "blacked out" spiderweb became the back of the card.
I cut Kitty at just under four inches tall. Her costume was cut in cardstock printed on the Imagine machine using Teresa Collin's Black & White cartridge! Kitty was finished with black micro tipped doodles and a "trick or treat" stamp on her tummy.
Also on the front of the card are two other Halloween cuts from the Hello Kitty Greetings cartridge. I cut the pumpkin at 1.5 inches. I used Smoochies to highlight the pumpkin cardstock and green Smoochies on the stem area.
The bat was cut at nearly two inches tall. I used a grey textured striped cardstock for the bat body. I used copper Smoochies over the grey area to color the bat brown.
I welded the base cuts of each of the three images together and completed the cut in a single piece. I built the characters on this single cut, then carefully traced the spider lines with glue and glued the Kitty image scene to the spiderweb. I cut the base cut a second time and glued it to the back side of the spiderweb.
The final additions to the card were orange Smoochies on Kitty's sucker and hairbow. I also cut the blacked out spiderweb again, one-half inch smaller, in orange cardstock. I attached the smaller orange cardstock to the inside of the card and stamped a Happy Halloween message in the center.
Thanks for stopping by Busy with the Cricky today. If you have not already done so, please visit BBTB2 and check out all of the great Kitty designs the design team created this week. Also, consider playing along with us and entering your own Halloween Hello Kitty project in the weekly challenge.
I will be back tomorrow with an exciting announcement. I hope you will drop back by.
