Elegance and Sparkle

I'm in the mood for some bling today. Let's start it off with another card for the 2018 Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop. This time I used sparkly silver stickers, floral background paper, two pink teardrop rhinestones (put together to form a sparkly heart), a Love die (from SU), and cut an "I" to match! This card is being given to a friend to use as décor in her office. She loves coffee and all things sparkly. 

  

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2018 Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop   (Coffeelovingcardmakers.Com/2018/05/2018-Spring-Summer-Coffee-Lovers-Blog-Hop)

Power Poppy- B&W with a pop of color                (Powerpoppy.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-spark-with-bit-of-drama.html)

Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge      (craftyhazelnutspatternedpaper.blogspot.com)

The Paper Shelter- #341 Flower Power                 (thepapershelter.blogspot.com.ar)

                  

This next card has more elegance than bling… oh… and has a very high yummy rating! Used one of my newest digi sets from Beccy's Place named "Just Desserts." All of the desserts are amazing, but I opted to go with something chocolate.  Also, since I love to color, I don't usually use pre-colored images (in truth this is only the second time I've done it) but I knew that I couldn’t ever make this dessert look as pretty as Beccy did! So, I just added a little shading to the left edges to "anchor" it on the card.  Isn't it gorgeous?! I love it, but now I am really, really hungry for chocolate cake!

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Simon Says Wednesday Challenge- Anything Goes      (simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge)

CAS-ual Fridays- #200 Happy Birthday                        (CAS-ualfridays.blogspot.com)

Beccy’s Place Challenge- May                                             (beccysplace.blogspot.com)

Word Art Wednesday Challenge- #334-335 Anything Goes       (wordartwednesday.blogspot.com)

I am fairly new to the Outlawz Challenges and really enjoyed this one. In early May I was provided a free digi, this beautiful perfume bottle. Wasn't sure what I'd do with it until I realized that the bottle looked like one a Genie could live in. I then raided my stamping stash, pulling out patterned vellum (from a packet of champagne glass lanterns that I found at the local Goodwill store), two sizes of stars (from shaker card packets) and some beautiful new roles of mini washi tape that I recently picked up at the local JoAnnes. With some fussy-cutting, coloring and lots of adhesive, I had fun creating this magical card. (Developed the sentiments on my laptop and printer.) 

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Outlawz Challenges- Progressive Freebie-                    (Outlawzchallenges.ning.com)

Double D’s Challenge- Bling It Up                                  (daranddiane.blogspot.com)

Artistic Inspirations Challenge-Challenge #201          (artisticinspirationschallenges.blogspot.com.au)