Sparkle and Shine

Hello everyone! Today I have a sparkly card to share with you. I made it for this week's Our Daily Bread designs Shining the Light Challenge29, which was to sparkle! I used this month's new releases Brocade Background, Brocade Frames and a sentiment from the Peace set, the newest in the Full of Grace Collection. I also used the new Die Cuts for the Brocade Frames and let me tell you I am a woman in love!!! These make the job of cutting so quick and easy!!!

My card base is Bazzill Bling in a silvery gray, then the next mat is also Bazzill Bling in Black which reads more like charcoal gray with shimmer. The next layer is dp from Making Memories. On basic black I stamped the brocade background with white Craft Ink and heat embossed with Ranger Crystal EP. It really sparkles! I then cut that out with the Spellbinders Scalloped Edge Frame, putting the frame aside for now. I used the same Edge Frame and cut another one out of white to use for the frame this time. I laced gray sheer ribbon that has a silvery thread running through it through the scallops and tied in a bow at the bottom. For my focal point, I stamped the sentiment from Peace in Memento Tuxedo Black, then stamped the Brocade Frame around it and again on a blank white piece of cs. I used the die cut to cut them both out and then cut one in such a way to make the vertical part of my cross. I taped the two parts onto the back of the sentiment and then sprayed the entire thing with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Glacier. After that dried I mounted it on a stiffening layer and then mounted with foam dots. I hope you can see the shimmer.... it really does sparkle!

Thanks so much for stopping! Your comments mean the world to me! Have a blessed week!

I am linking this to the following challenges:
Gingerloft- Anything Goes
Fab n Funky- What'Eva
Southern Girls Challenge- Anything goes
Fairy Fun- Embossing
Scrappekammeret- Anything goes
Timbro Scrapmania - Anything Goes
Stamping vacation- no brads or eyelets "NO, NO!" challenge