the best things in life are *SPARKLY*!!! (obviously)

and those are the kind we especially like at shopping our stash. but alas, not everything arrives at one's doorstep pre-glittered; some things need our help. so this week's challenge is to use stickles (or the like) on your project!

frosted lace stickles, tinted with a teeeeeeeny bit of ultramarine colorburst and yet still not really showing up in the pictures; continuing my mission to use up some of my (many, many!) tiny stickers i have a bear and bunny by funny sticker world, plus sunshine, a vw microbus and a cute sentiment from simple stories; tiny library cards: amy tangerine/american crafts; patterned paper: making memories, sei, echo park; tape: martha stewart + freckled fawn; twine: celebrate it... which my aunt joy saw in a store just before xmas and thought i would like, how cool is that? ♥; adhesives: elmers brand gluetape, 3m foam tape

my card inadvertently sets a record for the most stickles on one piece of paper that cannot be seen at all in photographs! yeah. apparently, these are stealth stickles. clearly, they have defense applications. i'm sure the pentagon is very interested! luckily i somehow actually remembered to take a "process pic" and by virtue of increasing the contrast on the photo you can very nearly almost see them. (and YES, i hand-painted the stickles on the left-hand side and lower edge of every single cloud!):

despite the absence of convincing photographic evidence, this card really is pretty sparkly in real life, honest! so of course you're all invited over to see it in person. i'll make you a mochacino* and everything! this goes for the folks from the simon says stamp monday challenge blog, too, though since this week is "be square" and my card seems thankfully to be doing that fairly straightforwardly, i think they'll be able to tell.

another great place to visit is SOS where my design team darlings are ROCKIN' IT... you know... like always... ♥♥♥

*technically, it'll just be a regular cup of coffee with a spoonful of ghirardelli cocoa mix stirred into it... but it's yummy and chocolatey, i promise! :)