Friday, October 27, 2023

a bit of bling

Hello

Welcome to my little crafting place! 
 My card today is for Shabneez's Daring Cardmakers Challenge this week.   

It's Shabneez here and I love

 a bit of bling

 on a card so now’s your chance to get out those shimmer pastes, glitter glues, mirri card and those glorious gems!

 Click Here for some ideas from the design team

I'd planned to make something other than a Christmas card but being deep into making those, I'm struggling to make anything else right now.  Even though I have a few birthdays coming in the next couple of months that I need to come up with non-festive ideas for!
I think I might have to clear the glitter and shiny card and all the Christmas sies off the desk and focus my mind on other things next week!
 
I did make two cards though - I made the black one first, but then the Sealed Squiggles set arrived and I couldn't resist trying them out! 
Black and Silver card
I made the starry background piece using black card. silver foil  and the

You've seen those trees before and you'll see them again - the brilliant tree dies from Spellbinders' Sealed Christmas Tree Squiggle Etched Dies,  cut in different finsihes of silver card.

Finally a hot foiled sentiment from Waffle Flower. 

 

White, Silver and Red card

I die cut 2 of the lovely dies from the Sealed Squiggles set plus the longstemmed tree from Sealed Christmas Tree Squiggle all from the same silver glitter card - this card is a much more subtle pale silver than I usually use.

The NOEL die is an old favourite, also by Spellbinders but not available any more, sorry!

I added a bow o metallic red thread, and a few stars and circles in white, silver and red, then finished it off witg a bit of extra bling in the by way of some tiny silver and red gems

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Thank you so much for coming by

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself,
 
Kathy xx

 
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2 comments:

  1. ShabneezFriday, 27 October, 2023

    These are beautiful cards Kathy! Loving the bling.

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  2. AndreaHSaturday, 28 October, 2023

    These are 2 gorgeous cards. I'd never of thought of using black as cards especially Christmas cards but oh wow I will now....beautiful. Thank you so much for the inspiration X X

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