Today's card is all about Valentine's Day and features the Sugardrop line of stamps and papers. I stamped the crystal chandelier (E1170) onto white paper with black Versafine ink and then painted the chandelier with yellow and pink Twinkling H2O paints. I painted around the lights using yellow paint mixed with a lot of water to create a soft "glow" around the lights. I then painted the crystals and framework with pink paint to match the papers I chose for my card. The lights were colored with a yellow Tombo marker.
I punched out my image with a Marvy Mega Oval punch and then layered it onto some Sugar Plum paper that was punched with a Marvy Giga Oval Scallop punch. I finished by layering everything onto a selection of papers from the Sugardrop 6" x 6" paper pack and a Vanilla Bean notecard. On a special note, I would like to mention that the saying I used was an older Memory Box stamp. There is a brand new script "you light up my life" saying that is part of the Sugardrop collection.
As a final touch, I used just about every form of bling I could find. After all, what is a chandelier without bling? I added Diamond Stickles to the crystals and some of the new Memory Box pink rhinestones to the framework. I even added a little gold Spica pen to the centers of my gold flames.
I am including a close-up of the chandelier so that you can see how I painted around the lights as well how the bling really makes the chandelier sparkle.
Cute stamp & saying. Love all the bling!
Posted by: Heidi | 01/16/2009 at 04:47 AM
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Posted by: Chrisi Rogers | 01/16/2009 at 09:04 AM