"Around the World Blog Hop"

Welcome to day 4 of the Scrappy-Go-Lucky Blog Hop.

My challenge was to come up with something to do with my part of the world, or a part of the word that is important to me.

I live in Brisbane which is situated between two beautiful Coast lines..... The "Gold Coast" to the south and the Sunshine Coast to the North........so I decided to do them both.

One thing I needed to feature on both pages was the Cri-Kit Gel pens. Design Studio helped with the alignment of the pens to border the scallop mat, which was cut from "Story Book".

This page is from the "Gold Coast". The paper I used is Kaiser "Distracted". The flowers are from "Life's a Beach" plumeria, and were cut at 3in, 2.5in, and 2in. I cut the leaves from "Walk in my Garden".....1in, .09in, .07in.

On the photo below the white gel pen was used, it turned out exactly how I wanted ........Sign Writing in the Sky! That was done with "Lyrical Letters".

The heading "Surf's Up" is from the "Life's a Beach" cartridge. The words and surf board are one cut. I then did a second cut with just the board as I wanted the surf board a different color to the font. The Cri-Kits glitter pink gel pen was used to draw the plumeria's across the board, and they were then colored with water color pencils. The pink pen also borders "surf's up" with lots of white glitter added.

I think of the Cri-Kit pens just like a stamp, draw your image and color it in !

So if you'd like a chance to win a set of these great pens , just leave a comment at the bottom of this post, Random.org will choose the winner on Friday the 18th of June.
Be sure to leave a way for me to contact you if your comment is chosen.

My inspiration for this second page was the phrase Queensland Tourism uses to describe the state.......

"Queensland , Beautiful one day, Perfect the next"

So this is what a came up with........ the photos were taken at Rainbow Beach.

Using "Base Camp" With Design Studio and the Cri-Kits, I bordered the font with Cri-Kits blue glitter gel pen and wrote inside the B with black. Crystal Effects was used to give the letters more dimension. "Perfect" was done the same way. The paper is a favourite of mine, its Kaiser "Esperance".

The kite is from the "Everyday Paper Dolls" cartridge, and the font is from "Lyrical Letters" drawn with the black Cri-Kits gel pen.

The Star fish is from "Life's a Beach" outlined with gold Cri-Kits. And Bling  of course!

 As you know, Mandy is giving away the four latest release cartridges from CRICUT

Wall Decor and More, Cindy Lou, Freshly Picked, Mini Monsters,

 Follow this international Blog Hop and collect the clues - once you have solved the anagram you need to

 e-mail the answer to Mandy at

comp@scrappy-go-lucky.com

It was a last minute decision to make this card ........I found the Maple Leaf image on "A Child's Year", this represents Canada and that's where my Husband is from. We have family there who we hope to visit sometime soon.

As another example of using the Cri-Kits as a stamp effect, the leaf was drawn onto water color paper at 4in with the black Cri-Kits gel pens. My heat gun was used to set the ink which stopped the bleeding when water-colouring. Stampin Up earth element crayons were used to color with an aqua brush.

The leaf just looks like a stamped image I think! A very simple and quick card to make.

So that's it from me.................Don't forget Tereesa's blog  tomorrow, to see her amazing creation and for another clue!

Here's mine

Good Luck and Happy Hopping!

Tracey