MFT Camp Create – Glitzy Glitter – Amazing Card

Hello dear visitors and followers! Today I’ve started catching up with My Favorite Things Camp Create online summer camp.

Day one in the craft cabin was all about Glitzy Glitter. Virginia’s View also has a color challenge going on…

Putting the two together,  here’s what I came up with:

 

I love the glitzy, glittery, magical look of the ombre balloons and sentiment. Doesn’t she look like she’s about to travel the world?!  When you get to the inside, you find out she’s just landed —  or is just entering a Dr. Who time vortex in a little blue box (cue music!)!!!

Hello, Sweetie! : )

Materials used:

• My Favorite Things stamp sets: I Knead You & Simply Fab Sayings
• My Favorite Things dies: Doubly Amazing, Heart Balloons, and Jumbo Peek-a-Boo Circle Window
• My Favorite Things stencil: Concentric Circles
• Coredinations Cardstock
• Simply Defined 2.5″ wide double sided adhesive (“Stacey Tape”)
• Martha Stewart Crafts Essential Colors Glitter: Peridot, Golden Beryl, Tourmaline, Kunzite, Chardite, Purple Sapphire, Carnelion, Cinnabar, Fire Opal, Copper, Smoky Quartz, Florentine Gold, Yellow Barite
• Ranger Distress inks: Stormy Sky and Faded Jeans
• Copic Markers: B02, 05; C1,3,5; RV02
• Aleene’s Super Tacky glue
• Darice Baker’s Twine

So, I’ve earned the first of the five camp badges:

   

Let’s see if I can catch up and get all 5! If you want to play along, with this or the other challenges I’m entering below, just click on the description for more information.

• My Favortie Things Camp Create – Glitzy Glitter
• Virginia’s View Challenge #22 – All About Colors: http://virginiasviewchallenge.blogspot.ca/2016/06/virginias-view-challenge-22-summer.html?m=1 (sorry, you may have to cut-and-paste this link… my computer just died and I’m having trouble geting the hyperlink done with my phone… this does  not bode well for the rest of the week! Argh!)
• Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – World Traveler
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Animal Magic
• DL.Art June Linky Challenge – Anything Goes
• CropStop Linky Party #17 – Anything Goes

Hopefully I’ll be able to resolve the computer issues and see you again soon.

~D.Ann

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Smile – A Pair of Glittery Roller Coaster Cards

Good Monday morning! I hope you all had a lovely weekend!!

Because it IS Monday, I figure we all need some cheering up, so I made a couple of cards to bring a smile to your faces:

This card came about by a serendipitous accident – my Simon Says Stamp Smile Circle die fell on the Roller Coaster die and I noticed how it fit the loop-de-loop perfectly!

  

So I cut it out on some shiny blue-black cardstock and snipped the circle at the bottom to line up with the loop:

Then I pulled out some of my NBUS (Never-Before-Used-Schtuff) Simply Defined 2.5″ wide double-sided ‘Stacey’ tape and laid it across my card to hold the dies down and then make my own background. At this point, you may want to wipe the top and bottom of the card with a dryer sheet to help keep the glitter off of it.

Note: Save the release paper to use to press the dies down and later to burnish the glitter!

I added my cars to both cards. On one I snipped off the junctions and used them for heads of people in the cars for the other…

I then added various colors of glitter to both cards, burnishing with the release paper from the double-sided tape.

I always giggle when I play with glitter, remembering that viral e-mail about the lady who quickly freshened up with a washcloth before going to the gynecologist and didn’t understand why he commented on her wanting this to be an extra special visit until she got home and her daughter asked where the rag she had been storing her glitter was… lol!

Tip: glitter cleans up nicely with a Swiffer sweeper cloth. I cut mine in four pieces and keep them with my glitter.

That glitter just makes me want to reach out and touch the sky and see how it feels. You’d expect it to be rough, but it’s smooth. I tried to center the dies on the tape better in the second card. I was afraid to add an extra 1/4″ double sided tape, thinking there might be a line between the two. I like the way these two die cuts combine, don’t you?!

Materials used:

• Simon Says Stamp Smile Circle die
• Simon Says Stamp  Rockin Roller Coaster die
• Core’dinations cardstock
• Recollections Shimmer card
• Simply Defined 2.5″ wide double sided adhesive (“Stacey Tape”)
• Martha Stewart Crafts essential Colors Glitter: Yellow Barite, Smoky Quartz, Copper, Fire Opal, Cinnabar.
• Aleene’s Tacky Glue

I’m playing along with the following challenges, in case you’d like to join the fun:

• Darnell’s NBUS Challenge #6 (HERE)

• Simon Says Stamp’s Flicker Challenge #40: Sparkle & Shine (HERE)
• Simon Says Stamp’s Monday Challenge: Make Your Own Background (HERE)
• Simon Says Stamp’s Wednesday Challenge: Touchy-Feely (HERE)
• Carolyn Dube’s AColorfulJourney.com Let’s Play  (HERE)

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by!

-D.Ann

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