Friday, October 27, 2017

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.

Thanks for stopping by today ... I love it when you do!


8 comments:

lainey said...

Very pretty and sparkly Marcia! I love those red berries! Congrats on your blog hop win.

Melanie Ann MacKenzie said...

Aren't you the clever girl to show the sparkle all through the tags. Love it! Cheers.

Ros Crawford said...

This is so elegant! Beautifully done as always and I just love how you can switch up your styles!

Loll said...

Beautiful layering of elements to create a gorgeous Christmas card, Marcia. Love the glitter scalloped circle that adds lots of sparkle! xx

Greta said...

Worth your efforts, Marcia! Love the look of this card & now I want to use glitter with the Cutaway Tag I have!

Betty Wright said...

This is wonderful, Marcia! Lovely Christmas card!

Stebbins Family said...

That gold really makes it festive! Beautiful card glitter buddy =)

Helen F. said...

Gorgeous card! I love glitter ~ but not the mess I created with it :-D