Cinema Saturday:Wizard of Oz

Ill go ahead and share my Cinema Saturday creation, but ding dong! I completely missed the required element of the challenge: a metallic element(see Sankari's fabulous Tin Man sample!) Doh! Oh well, I'm still really happy with it it, and had a blast working on it. Although the challenge was posted yesterday, this card might go down in the books as longest time to make a card from start to finish, because I started it back in JULY! Yes, you read that right, I pieced together the dress and shoes from "Retro Boutique" right after the set was released because I thought the shape of it and some gingham paper would make a perfect little "Dorothy outfit" for a follow your dreams type card, but I never finished it because I couldn't decide on a layout. The pieces you were cute not to save(and I'd spent the time on them!), so I tucked them away in boxes to complete at a later date when inspiration struck...well, hello, inspiration!! (7 months later LOL! hey, you never know...! I was just impressed I found them!)

I stamped the dress once onto white CS, so I could sketch in the apron to cut out and lay over the pieced image, and once onto Magnolia gingham DP and added some little cap sleeves with a pen. Red Stickles and adhesive rhinestones colored to match are accents for the shoes and bag, I colored the basket with Copics with the chisel tip end, dotting some little squares it to make it look like woven strips. The background DP is Basic Grey Sultry and the path is Summer Sun CS I Cuttlebugged with my mesh folder. "The journey begins" is from my "Hand-in-Hand" set.

Inside I stamped "Wish Shoe Well!" from Rupa's set, perfect with the ruby slippers, dontcha think? I was going to put the ribbon on the outside, but decided to slide it into the inside, because having it at the top( although it was tying in the red and blue outfit at the bottom), was breaking up the illusion for me of the scene. The colors in the DP are so different from the outfit or yellow brick road, I know, but the flower print in the background was so perfectly, magically surreal, and while not perfectly coordinated, it really does give the impression of one of those vivid glorious Technicolor scenes from the movie, so I went with it!

(So what do you do with a "Wizard of Oz" card?? LOL! Send it to a film/craft buff and encourage them to enjoy "the journey"!) ;)

Cinema Saturday has a very nice PRIZE this week, a Gina K set of your choice valued at $19.95 or less, thank you Brooke and Sankari for offering that! You have until this Thursday, 12 PM PST to link your creation on the Cinema Saturday Challenge blog, see more details there. But DON'T FORGET THE METAL like I did if you want to win LOL! Q&A with Sankari soon to come!