Altenew - Let it Shine

I had some unexpected free time this morning, so I thought I would continue with my journey for my AECP.

Today's video lessons, was by Carrisa Wiley, it was all about adding shine to your cards, and as you know I love me some splatters and sequins, cards aren't cards until they include some sparkle.. I learnt that adding an odd number of sequins is more pleasing on the eye than an even number..

I had lots of ideas after watching the videos, for things I don't normally use, you know those craft supplies that hide in the back of the draw... well today I got round to using them... OK if I'm honest I TRIED to use them and got myself in a big flaky mess! I'll post the photo...I ended up not using this as I really didn't like what I'd done LOL..

Anyway back to my card process, I first started out using the Classy Stripes Stencil by Altenew.  I went with the coral colour of Nuvo mousse, I tried to use the pallet knife, but my mousse was a little dry, so I used a make up sponge, which worked quite well!

I stamped out two images from my favourite set ATM, Wallpaper Art, I used Jet black ink for the flower and Sand Dune for the leafs, I added gold Wink of Stella to the parts of the leafs you would see, but they needed grounding, they looked like they were floating in mid air, so I decided to cut an oval frame from some gold mirror card stock, and add 2 strips of the golden washi tape in between the lines.

Next I moved on to my flower, I coloured it with some copic markers, YR12, 14 &18 and added some Wink of Stella clear sparkle to the petals, a drop of nuvo glitter drops to the centre and my flower was complete.

Some gold metallic thread added to the back of the flower, and I was happy...now to put it all together with some foam tape and just the right shade of sequins and a sentiment from the Vintage Roses set as this looked like an anniversary card to me!

I've taken another photo to see if I could capture all the glittery shininess of the card!

I loved this card so much, that I thought I would enter it into the Monday Challenge over at Simon Says Stamp - Add something metallic.

Thanks for popping in to see me.

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Alli

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