So Happy

Good morning all!  I thought I would give you a break from the Christmas cards today (maybe even tomorrow!), but it will be a bit of a mix up from here on in til the end of the year as I have loads of them!  Today's offering is from my previous set of shows and has a lovely technique that I enjoyed demoing at Ally Pally recently as well. I started with a piece of coconut white card covered with a sticky adhesive sheet.  Randomly I sprinkled our polished silk glitter over it using the Rose copper, sea green and hunter green colours.  I burnished it with my finger into the sticky adhesive sheet and that is important to do to get the glitter adhered well and made smooth.  Tap off any excess.  I inked my Swirly Leaf background with a black archival ink pad and stamped my image on to the glittered piece.  This glitter is brilliant as it is so smooth, you can stamp images on it.  I wanted to see what it would look like if I layered it again, so I covered the piece with another sticky sheet and poured clear micro beads over it.  In person, it has a sort of holographic look to it so I have decided to call this my "holographic technique" for future use.  I stamped  a piece of white card with one of the Mix 'n Match sentiments from JustRite designed by Becca Feeken using a black archival ink pad.  Once dry, I embossed the piece with my Heart Lattice embossing folder for texture.  I attached my beaded holographic piece to the upper side.  I cut  a Scalloped Border Two out of black card, using an insert and two cutting ridges.  I cut a white border slightly larger using just the two cutting edges. I glued the black border to it  and embossed the two pieces together.  I added it with mounting foam across my card, hiding the bottom the beaded piece.  I used the dusty rose felt to cut a Spiral flower four and rolled and glued it into place, adding a black pearl to the centre.  I added it to the side of my card atop a messy bow tied out of black seam binding and black jute bow.  I finished the card by adding flatback pearls to all the junctions in the embossed background and a double pierced white mat.  Finished dimensions are 7" x 8 1/4" in size.