Make It Monday #301 - Matting With Glitter

Hello friends.  This week's Make It Monday challenge has Lizzie Jones showing us an easy way to make a glitter frame for our cards.  Well kind of easy...well actually not easy for me at all, but I think I'm Stick-It paper challenged!!  But I persevered and managed to come up with a pretty card that's also VERY sparkly!!

 I started with the Cutaway Tags: Winter stamp and die set and paper pieced the flowers and holly leaves with Pure Poppy and Simply Chartreuse cardstocks.  I did stamp the little dotted veins for the leaves to add a little more dimension to them.  After gluing them down to the white base, I embossed the sentiment in gold and then added the berries using Autumn Red Nuvo Drops.  I used an old Spellbinders scalloped die for my glitter matting, and because I couldn't get the Stick It paper to cooperate with me, I just ended up spreading glue all over the die cut scalloped circle and then adding some Martha Stewart gold glitter.  It dried beautifully and I loved the look of it under the cutaway tag!

I added some Kraft and Simply Chartreuse DSP to my card base and then sponged the edges with Cocoa Bean ink.  I also stamped the flourish from Autumn Adornments in Cocoa Bean ink and a couple holly leaf sprigs from Tag-It's #9 in Simply Chartreuse ink.  I finished off with some dark red seam binding ribbon and gold sequins.  Really LOVE all the sparkle to this card!!  :0)

Still a couple days to play along with this challenge, so check out Lizzie's beautiful card and then play along right HERE.

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