Metallic Inspirations- CardMaker Blog Hop

Hi there!  It's time for the monthly CardMaker Blog team hop. The theme is Metallic Inspirations---create a card that is shiny and sparkly. You can use mirrored card stock, glitter, metallic finished, etc.---anything that is metallic and shiny. Cards can be any occasion.

Here is my metallic, shiny, glittery mirrored, sparkly creation:

And here is a picture of the card lying down so you can see some more of the glitter, sparkle, etc:

Took the challenge quite literally, eh!? 

Mirrored- check

Glitter- check

Sparkly- check

Shiny- check

I used some beautiful chipboard from This & That- Christmas collection (Echo Park) that I have been hoarding and layered it on some fabulous paper I found.  It is pretty cool...it's mirrored and then has circular glitter circles.  (Cool, but hard to photograph!)

I used an SRM sticker from Fancy Sticker Sentiments- Christmas for the sentiment and I added a silk ribbon that I gathered with a piece of cord and then added a glittery sparkly snowflake with an extra rhinestone center on top.  I added another rhinestone to the first reindeer's nose (Rudolf!) and to the sentiment .  Finally, I punched a corner from a glittered area of the card stock to add to the corner of the sentiment.

Supplies: Sentiment- Fancy Sticker Sentiments- Christmas (SRM Stickers); Chipboard Accents- This & That Christmas (Echo Park); Patterned paper- This & That: Christmas- Poinsettias, Red (Echo Park Paper); Speciality paper- Metallic foil -Recollections (Michael's); rhinestones- Recollections (Michael's)- Snowflake bling- Jolee's (EK Success).
Cannot wait to get a gander at what my awesomely talented teammates came up with:
CardMaker Blog
Anya
Colleen
Glenda
Jennie
Kimberly
Trudy

Enjoy the hop! Be sure to check in tomorrow for my first "clean-out-the-office-or-bust" giveaway!

Thanks for stopping by!

A Totally Twilight Challenge

A TOTALLY Twilight Challenge: Wanna play along?

Just add your Twilight inspired card to this blog post and Judge.Cara will select her favorite. You have until Sunday, August 23 at 8:00 am central time to add your card to this post. Cara will pick her favorite and you will win a STAMP SET of YOUR CHOICE from Gina K Designs.

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A few days ago I blogged about how my daughters and I were working on projects together at the kitchen table. My oldest daughter, Cara, was making this Twilight poster: Someone asked that I post it...and that gave us an idea!

Today Cara and I made "Twilight" inspired cards. The cards we made were inspired by one of the four book covers.

Here is what we came up with:

First, here is Cara's card:

She was so secretive while making this---because she didn't want me copying her idea (This is verbatim from her!). I love what she came up with---the little forever tag and bling flowers are so much fun! And I love the overall design. (Can you tell I am so proud of her!?)


Here is my first card (I made two, cause I am fast!)

I was inspired by the same cover Cara used on this one---my checkerboard pattern just morphed a bit. I chose to make a teacher thank you card--taking inspiration from the apple on the first book.

Materials used: Black cardstock (Gina K Designs); Designer paper-Norm's News (October Afternoon), Everafter (Cosmo Cricket); sewing machine; apple-Rebecca Sower (EK Success); buttons (Papertrey); ribbon (Offray); stapler.

Here is my other card:

Removed for Publication

I used Arranged with Love (from Gina K Designs) to create the background. I stamped it once on white cardstock and then another time on black and embossed with white detail powder. I fussycut the black one and layered part over the original.

I layered some cardstock over some sheer red ribbon (taking colors from the covers) and added the friends rub-on. Finally, I added some adhesive rhinestones.

Materials used: Stamps-Arranged with Love (Gina K Designs); cardstock-white, onyx (Gina k Designs), red (SU!); white embossing powder; Versamark; Memento tuxedo black ink; ribbon (unknown); rub on-Make it Personal (One Heart One Mind); Mark Richards Crystals.

Hope you will play along!!!

Thanks for stopping by!