Easel With the Congratulations

Well I really went for the sparkle with this anniversary card I made for friends. Black glitter card, dufex, holographic card and gems. I have to admit to being rather pleased with how it turned out, pix don't do it justice....you just can't get the sparklie bits to show properly can you. I'm hoping they would have got it today, and even then it's a day late.....drat holiday postal service lol. I suppose I could have made it early and got it to them before the break...but that was never going to happen was it now lol.

My receipe...

All cardstock - Stash 

Mini gems - Craft Creations

Stickers - Craft Creations, Imag-e-nation

Nestie - Label 8

Decoupage image - Dufex

Other embellies - Stash

The Love that Put it Together - All My Own

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges :-

Anything Challenge ... The Letter C

The Corrosive Card Challenge ... Bling it on

Paper Sundaes ... Cut it out

Bunny Zoe's Crafts ... Sparkle and Shine

Woodware USA Clear Stamps ... Anything Goes

Fresh Brewed Designs ... Celebrate

The Pixie Cottage... Celebration

Simon Say Stamp...Time to Celebrate

Stamp Insanity ... Sparkle

Stamping 'B's Design ... Celebrate

Digi Doodle Shops Best ... Anything goes 

A few scanned pix to make up for the bad photograph....

The 'banners' were made by drawing around a couple the nestie shapes, the tiniest for the ends and a bigger one to get the length. Outlined with sliver stickers and the congrats banner embellished with a couple of teeny tiny flower gems. Dufex decoupage is great to shape, and so easy, you can curve it with your fingers or for greater depth, with the handle of your scissors. You do have to be very careful with it as the etching is easily marked by a finger nail or the scissors. ...worth the care though. If you've never tried dufex, there is some among my candy which you can find here.

 As you can see the base as well as the card front is glitter card.

 Another greeting banner and an embellishment banner too. The ribbon was coloured with a cheap acetate pen, the flower sequin was coloured from underneath so it would keep the shimmery mother of pearl look (I know you can't see that!!) A paper poppy with a flower gem to finish off.

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