Something with and bit of sparkle and Next Week's Challenge theme.

Good Morning Ladies,

I hope that you are all well and ready for the weekend, not too sure about the weather for weekend, I think its not sunny but not raining either so fingers crossed all the local activities will still go ahead, I always feel so sad seeing them packing up their stalls a day early because nobody wants to go walking around May Day fairs in the rain.  Our old village had a huge May Day fete with Police Dog Displays, car boot sales, lots of plant stalls to, so bargains to be had for everyone.

Sadly they don't have anything like that here, not until the Summer fete, which Paul and I both enjoyed walking around.

Today's card is one I made with some of the freebies in the New 'Chloe' magazine, it has a lot of free goodies...A lovely Embossing folder, a set of corner dies,a stamp set and a mask and lovely  magazine full of inspiration, oh and a lovely collection of Pastel coloured papers.  Well worth the cost of £12.99 , I will add a photo of it below.....

I loved the look of the card that was featured on the front and at first I thought ''oh thats a quick and simple card, boy was I wrong, I had foolishly thought that the flowers were cut out with the matching die set after stamping them, but no, everyone one of the flowers on that wreath consists of two layers, which meant I had to stamp 16 flowers in Clear ink, add sparkle embossing powder and heat set, then fussy cut them all out as the die doesn't fit, it was quite therapeutic though.  The background was made by covering an 8 X 8 card with a piece of the striped papers from the set, I then had to die cut a two circle dies to make a round frame to use as a wreath to arrange the flowers around, I stuck that down with foam pads, then arranged the flowers around the circle.  Oh I forgot to mention that I had to use a Fine Tip glue bottle to add little tiny blobs of dries clear around the flowers and the background and then add glitter all over, I blew away the excess and left it to dry, those little dots do add some lovely detail. To finish the card I stamped some leaves out onto Vellum and die cut them and arrange them around the wreath of flowers, I coloured the back of them with Granny Apple Green Watercolour pencils on the reverse of the leaves,  then blended with wink of Stella sparkle pen.

I hope you like my card Ladies.

Next Week's Challenge

I thought that as the weather was a little dull and the Spring seems to have lost it's Sparkle, that it was up to us to change that dullness into a bright, shiny day by adding some sparkle to our cards!

So for the challenge I would like you to add some 'Sparkle' to your cards, you can use anything you like...…

Glitter

Sparkly Gem stones, sequins etc

Glitter glue/ink

Glitter card

Glitter card 

I can't wait to see what cards you make with all of the glitter/sparkle products you have in your stash.

I am off  to prepare for a weekend crafting at Danielle's, I am very excited, we plan to do lots of crafting together.

I hope you have a lovely weekend too, however you are spending it,

Love and hugs to all

Sandra 

xxxxxxx