Creating something beautiful from a mistake

I received Create a Critter this week and wanted to cut something from it last night while I had banana bread baking. I figured, in support of the Florida game I would cut the alligator. What I didn't realize is that the size of the cut (this was pre-loading it on my Gypsy) is based on the height, not the length, so my 3" alligator was more like 7" - oops. Well, I decided I could make a pretty cute layout with it and so over the past 24 hours I have made what is probably my most complex Cricut layout.

What started with a 3" CAC alligator, was then joined by a hand-cut lake that I embossed with some embossing glue and clear embossing powder. I also welded some grass (from Sports Mania I believe) to a rectangle to get the grass. I cut a few little clumps of grass (CAC) to add some dimension. I chalked all of the grass with some Stampin' Up! chalk. I then pop dotted the alligator amongst the grass making sure that some it looked like he was amongst the grass.

One of the things that I did recently was make my own Glimmer Mist using Perfect Pearls, Mini Mister bottles and some ink. I decided to mist my clouds (CAC) with some white mist (just the white Perfect Pearls and water) and the sun (Gypsy Wanderings) with some gold mist (just the gold Perfect Pearls and water). I'm happy with the dimension it adds to the lo.

The other fun thing with this LO, is the rhinestone as the bird's eye (bird is from Hannah Montana). I purchased an iRock a few weeks ago and have been finding myself adding bling to everything! Gotta love my Michaels finally starting to get new stuff in a timely manner (and the use of coupons on said stuff!). I made the bird carry a banner (forgot which cart the banner is from, but the smile is from CAC) with some ribbon, all of which is pop dotted, of course. Overall I am very happy with how this mistake turned out, especially considering I had no plan in mind when all of this started. Now to get to the other 240 pictures I had (finally) printed earlier this week... :)