It's Tuesday which means we have a new CASology cue card - GLITTER. I have a love-hate relationship with glitter. Its so pretty but also so messy!
I remember my daughters made a craft in preschool which was made of paper, covered in glitter, and supposed to be hung from the ceiling or fixture. When it was suspended, it would spin in the air. Can you see where this is going?? Although beautiful, it spread glitter everywhere when it spun! Seriously everywhere. Never again were my girls allowed to use glitter in their craft projects.
For my CAS take on glitter, I wanted to incorporate it in a muted way so I went for a tone on tone, look. I used a Hero Arts Large Lotus stencil with Wendy Vecchi translucent embossing paste on Smokey Shadow card stock. After letting the embossing paste dry for 3 minutes, I added Sparkle and Sprinkle glittered embossing powder in Ebony Spark to the top and applied heat. Wow. The embossing powder just melts into the paste and leaves a glittery finish. These pictures don't truly capture how cool it looks in real life - textured and sparkly. I heat embossed the sentiment in the same glitter embossing powder and Versamark.
This is my take on a technique I learned from THIS video of Jennifer McGuire featuring embossing paste and embossing powder.
Check out the fabulous GLITTER creations by the DT to see how glitter can be used in a clean and simple way.
Deidre Payne
Hannelie Bester
Hazel Hodgkins
Jacquie Southas
Jen Wills
Joyce Mehrberg
Judy Marino
Kymona Tracey
Melissa Chipperfield
Sherrie Mannion (HERE!)
Tracey McNeely
Guest Designer: Sarah
and this week's sponsor DeNami Design is offering a prize for our gallery winner.
Look forward to seeing what you create in the gallery! Have a great week!
Elegant and gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteLove the Tone on Tone. I can imagine how this would look in person as well.
ReplyDeleteThe tone-on-tone is so striking Sherrie. Love this one.
ReplyDeleteSherrie, I really love the dark and elegant flower, the dimension you achieved with the embossing paste is really so beautiful.
ReplyDeleteOn the second photo you can see the spark better.
Thank you for sharing.
Maria Rodriguez.
This is so effective, Sherrie! LOVE that tone on tone effect. I really must give this a go. Gorgeous, elegant card!!
ReplyDeletewow Sherrie
ReplyDeleteI love the tone on tone color on your card
so lovely texture and too bad that Photo cant capture your lovely glitter
I love the idea Sherrie and geat DT card
I always love joining CASology challenge and love visiting the DT member
and you are new one I knew and I love to visit too
hope you like to see my entry #33
I must confess I have less Glitter paper on my stash :)
thanks for the inspiration Sherrie
hugs
Monika (love to join CASology challenge :))
Ha, great story! Yes, I think I quickly banned glitter from my kids' art projects...and Play Doh on carpet is no fun, either! I LOVE your card...it is so amazing and rich and classy! I'll have to try that technique...you executed it perfectly! I don't see one stray dot of glitter!
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