Bringin' the BLING

At Jingle Belles, we're cruising into the second week of "BLING on the Holidays" so we're still making cards with gems, jewels, pearls, glitter, glitter glue, glitter paper, shimmer paper... ok, you get the idea right? Here's my card:

Believe it or not, this week's card has more BLING-centric elements than last week's... but admittedly they are harder to see. That gorgeous three-layer tree is Simon Hurley's Classic Christmas Tree from Spellbinders. I already had several holiday tree die sets, but as soon as I saw this one, I KNEW I needed another. I diecut the solid background tree layer from deep green cardstock the trunk from a rich brown and the top/foliage layer from medium green. I used a natural sponge to lightly dab both of the green layers with Bronze Liquid Pearls for a subtle (but lovely) iridescent shimmer. I diecut the tree stand, some of the ornaments and the background mat from shimmery gold cardstock. I cut more ornaments from gold metallic and gold glitter cardstock. I added small rhinestones and pearls to the tree before mounting the whole thing on a piece of Lawn Fawn's Spiffier Speckles in Leprechaun (perfect for March!) on which the speckles are gold metallic. Finally I added a layer of ancient Hambly Screenprints doily patterned paper, which is also shimmery; you can't see it in the photo, but IRL this card is pretty fab if I do say so myself... and apparently, I do, lol! :)

Stephanie's gorgeous card can be seen at Jingle Belles where the linky tool and info about this challenge #JB2505: BLING on the Holidays can be found as well.