Friday, August 12, 2011

JB33: bling on the holidays!

i might've gone slightly overboard.

i know, i know, you're *SHOCKED* aren't you, at the thought of my being over-excited by this week's ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ prompt in which we invite you to create cards using rhinestones, beads, pearls, studs, glitter, stickles and/or any other sparkly shiny thing which takes your fancy! afterall, it's so unlike me!!! :)

what can i say, this one had LAUREN written allllllllll over it, and i reveled in the opportunity!

(transparencies: hambly; patterned paper: ki memories, basic grey; chipboard snowflake & rub-ons: basic grey; poinsettia: we r memory keepers; snowflake punch: ek success; metal & glitter snowflakes: making memories; brad: my mind's eye; bling: oriental trading co; sparkly wired ribbon & pink acrylic paint: michaels; adhesives: tombow monorunner, sewing machine)

i adorned my giant basic grey chipboard snowflake with glimmery pink paint, smothered it in white rub-ons, and loaded it with really sparkly (but almost totally flat) pink and silver flourishes from oriental trading company; and then i covered a lot of that up with flowers and die cuts and a pearl brad. go figure.

seeing as some of the snowflake's embellishments got hidden by successive layers, i added pink shimmery patterned paper, glitter-embellished wired ribbon, and rhinestone flourishes to a white grid hambly transparency base. when left in a dark room by itself, this thing emits a subtle yet comforting glow, lol!


so what do you think? will you try to beat my record for the sheer number of glittery things on *ONE* christmas card? or go very understated and elegant like miss stephanie, and just choose one perfect, dramatic, sparkly element? whatever you do, c'mon over to ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ before next wednesday night and help us BLING ON THE HOLIDAYS!!!

13 comments:

  1. I just love this card! It's stunning - with so many gorgeous details. Great challenge this week!

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  2. This card is so full of beautiful "bling" What a fantastic job. Can't wait to try this challenge.

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  3. It could never be too sparkly for me ... GORGEOUS card It may have Lauren written all over it ... but it has my name on who to send it too right?

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  4. Oh so very Lauren!!! Which of course means lovely, beautiful, pink, blingy, and all things wonderful :)

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  5. Blingalicious!!!! LOVE it...so GORGEOUS!

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  6. Sparkly gorgeousness! Just beautiful work, Lauren...painting all the edges of that snowflake die cut must have taken forevah. Love it!

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  7. I don't know Lauren. I *might* not be able to tell you made this card. I mean after all its pink, sparkly, glittered, bejeweled and fabulous. (sarcasm) IT totally screams LAUREN! love it!!! I will have to see if I have enough jeweled goodness for this challenge. I'm excited. I haven't done a JB card in awhile. Great card girlie!

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  8. So VERY Lauren-y! What took you so long to issue THIS challenge?!?! Oh, and I have an idea already swirling to the front of my grey matter for this one. :)

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  9. Ahhhh, Lauren, this is gorgeous! I love all of it! :)

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  10. Oh wow, this is absolutely gorgeous!!!!

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  11. I've pinned this as it has me written all over it too - pink AND bling??? Who could ask for more! I adore this card.

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