Here is my card for the "sparkle" challenge over at the Crafty Secrets Forum. Darlene is this weeks host and gave us a few clues yesterday and here are the clues we were given:
1. 4th of July
2. diamonds
3. sequins
4. Twinkle
5. Flash
6. Shine
With all those clues, this is the card that I came up with.
I used an image from the Seasonal Heartwarming Vintage Booklets "Proud To Be American" (although I am not an American) and added some Pastel Clear Ultra Fine Glitter to the stars and words around and in the oval. Background DP is from a stack that I purchased at Cosco some years back. I used a Quickie Glue stick to add some glitter on the fireworks on the DP. For the frame of the image, I used the Peony die from Spellbinders to cut red, white and blue cs. I then inter-twined the cut pieces to make my frame. And to finish off this card, I added ribbon to the image and some brads to the corners.
What a fun challenge.
Date: Tuesday, June 9, 2009 GMT Views: 267
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Registered: September 19, 2006 Location: Akron, Ohio Posts: 10480
Tue, Jun 09, 2009 @ 4:44 PM
This is SO COOL!!! Sorry about throwing you that 'curve ball' with the 4th of July reference but I was going for 'sparkler'. Your early celebration card is AWESOME though .. love your use of glitter and the red,white and blue circles behind the image is FANTASTIC ... great thinking! Thanks Marisa for making time to play along in the challenge ... glad you had fun!!
Registered: July 19, 2007 Location: Orangevale, Ca Posts: 3724
Thu, Jun 11, 2009 @ 4:28 PM
Kaboom...love the exploding sparkle on your card. Your always so clever with the nesties....I like those ticket corners too with the white brads.
Thanks for the inspiration.