It's All About the Glitter

Today's card was inspired by the prompt at As You Like It Challenge. 

What's my favourite? I love gold, I love silver, but anything glitter makes me happy. I especially love white and black glitter papers but honestly will take them all. Something about the way it catches the light just makes me happy. 

I used a butterfly set that was part of Concord & 9th's summer camp. The top layer was cut from a watercolor background piece, and then I stacked additional solid white dies to give it a bit of lift. I used that same due to cut from white glitter cardstock and then inlaid the pieces. I love inlaid dies . . . it's like a jigsaw puzzle.  

The die cut background also had inlaid pieces, so double jigsaw puzzle fun. 

Of course, I have additional pieces for another card saved in a tray, so perhaps another card will be posted soon. 

I hope you find some time to inlay some pieces, if that's your thing! 

Debbie

Supplies Used - Thinking of You

Stamps and Dies:  Butterfly Inlay Stamp Set and Dies (Concord & 9th);

Ink & Embossing:  Black, Harbor, Lilac, Fig, Grape Soda, Parsley Grasshopper and Evergreen (Concord & 9th);

Paper:  White Cardstock (Scrapbook & Cards Today); White Glitter Paper (Concord & 9th); Distress Watercolor Cardstock (Ranger);

Other: Iridescent Sequins (Gina K Designs); 

Party Pups

Today's card was inspired by the prompt at As You Like It, which was "favourite critter" (domesticated critter, that is). 

Shocker, but as the photo on my blog shows a picture of a dog, I fess up that dogs steal my heart. 

My dad inspired my love for dogs. My mom didn't want pets in our house, she didn't want the mess, chaos and dog hair. I wanted a dog so badly as a child, and I asked Santa for one when I was five. "Santa" delivered. He convinced my mom with a non-shedding dog. The rest is history. And so still have a non-shedder, but my life has been filled with shedders too. 

I love that Photoplay had this fun paper with the pups and a die set to match. I cut them all out and have been slowly creating cards, mixing them with other pattern papers, stamps and dies. 

Today's card mixes my critters with Pretty Pink Posh and Catherine Pooler Designs stamps/dies. 

Find some time to create with a critter today! And use some chunky glitter!

Debbie

Supplies Used - PARTY, Yappy Birthday

Stamps and Dies:  Bow Wow Stamp Set and Dies (Photoplay); Balloon Alphabet (Pretty Pink Posh); Party World Die (Catherine Pooler Designs); 

Ink & Embossing: Party Dress, Aquatini, Tiara and Midnight Ink (Catherine Pooler Inks);

Paper: Bow Wow Pattern Paper (Photoplay); Premium White Cardstock and By the Yard Pattern Paper Pack (Catherine Pooler Designs); Spiffy Speckles Pattern Paper (Lawn Fawn); Doodlebug Designs Pattern Paper;

Other: Twine (Concord & 9th); Pearly Pastel Confetti (Trinity Stamps); Diamond Stickles (Ranger); Chunky Glitter (Lawn Fawn);

Layered or Flat, and why?

The As You Like It Challenge prompt this week was Layered or Flat. I am most definitely a layered girl. I love flat, but I am in love with layered.

For me, it's all about the texture you can get with a layered card. This one is a perfect example of layers. I used a tone one tone cover die and I wove some pattern paper strips on one side. Then I layered some layered images, in the form of mini-shakers. 

Sequins and a sentiment to add some layer in other areas. Just love the texture!

Enough said!

Hope you get the chance to layer something up.

Debbie

Supplies Used - Congrats on this Happy Time

Stamps and Dies:   Candy Cane Lane Slimline Die, Every Minute Stamp Set and Dies, Moments in Time Sentiment Stamp Set and Dies (Catherine Pooler Designs);

Ink:  Flame, Do-si-do, Black Jack and Midnight (Catherine Pooler Inks);

Paper: White Daisy Cardstock (Close To My Heart); Potted Pattern Paper Pack (Catherine Pooler Designs);

Other:  Valencia Sequin Mix (Catherine Pooler Designs); 

Favorite Color Combinations

It's interesting when I think about color combinations and my favorite ones. A card that combines all the colors of the rainbow is my absolute favorite, likely because I don't have a true favorite. I love all the colors for different reasons, and like my children (or my pets) . . . it's hard to define a favorite!

The As You See It Challenge this week was "favourite colour combo and why". The "why" was the compelling part of this, because many of the combinations of colors just make me happy. But the combination of blues and greens makes me both happy and I find it calming. So that's why I chose it for this challenge . . . because I could explain a hefty why!

I pulled some old product for this one. A bit of a composition notebook . . . 

I just find blues and greens to be so calming and peaceful. 

I did use a few shades, but stuck to the blue and green (and stayed away from the full rainbow). 

I hope you can connect with some colors today.

Cheers.

Debbie

Supplies Used - Just Wanted You to Know . . .

Stamps and Dies:  Composition Notebook Background Stamp, Composition Label Dies, Composition Sentiment Stamps and Spiral Notebook Border Die (Catherine Pooler Designs);

Ink & Embossing:  Suede Shoes, Lime Rickey, Aquatini and Something Borrowed (Catherine Pooler Inks);

Paper:  Premium White Cardstock (Catherine Pooler);

Other: Crater Lake Sequins (Catherine Pooler); Golden Era Glacier Paste (Nuvo);