Saturday, January 5, 2013

Celebrate with Birthday Bling

This week so many people around the world took time to celebrate the beginning of a new year. In my family we always had a big celebration when anyone had a birthday. It was time to make them feel special and loved. We have two birthdays in our family this week, so I decided to focus on birthday celebrations with Sparkle and Shine! Since I often make crafts with earthtone colors but rarely use glitter, I wanted to see how those colors looked with a little sparkle. Here's one of the cards I made using shiny ribbon, a giant glitter brad, a butterfly with sparkles, and flower and leaves with glitter. To go with the earthy colors, I dry embossed leaves on the brown cardstock.



I want to thank so many for challenging me to get out of my rut and use more glitter and shine! I'm sharing this card with the following challenges:
ABC (All Beautiful Cards) Challenges #10 - New Year Sparkle (any theme-birthday+sparkle)
ABC Challenge - E, Embossing
Paper Pretties #239 - Bling
Scrap It Girl for January- Bling, Glitter, Shine, & Sparkles
Whoopsi Daisy - Celebrate (birthday)

"Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." Matthew 5:16




 

14 comments:

cotnob said...

This is a lovely card, fab colour combination.
Thank you for joining us at Whoopsi daisy.
Pauline
x

Danielle Vincent said...

Really lovely card Vicki. The sparkle on your flower is the perfect touch. Thanks for joining us this week at 'ABC' Challenges.

Jeanette (Forest Ranger) said...

What a lovely way to use a flower embellishment. Your card is very nice!

Thank you for participating in ABC Challenges!

Lela said...

Birthday and Bling are always good things! I like the flower, thanks for sharing with us at ABC Challenge Blog this week

Rosie Gustafson said...

Cute card, love the flower. Thank you for joining us at ABC Challenges. Xx Rosie

Patty Gorka said...

Oh, I like the sparkle on your flower! Great idea! Thanks for playing along at ABC Challenges!

Rachelle Olaridge said...

Totally beautiful card. Awesome details. Thanks for joining us at Scrap It Girl Blog Challenge. See ya again soon.

Jenn said...

Very beautiful card, I love the colors and glitter! Thanks for joining us at ABC Challenges!

Linnie Blooms Shop said...

The bling you added to this is beautiful!

Candy Spiegel said...

Lovely card. Thanks for playing along at Scrap It Girl.

Unknown said...

So pretty! Glitter looks great with earthy tones! Thanks for playing along with Scrap It Girl!

Dawn said...

I think your bling looks great with these colors. Thanks for joining in at Scrap It Girl.

kellystar said...

the sparkles on the tips of the petals really make the flower pop! Thanks for joining in the challenge at Scrap It Girl

Laura Cox {aka scrapaddict} said...

Love the sparkly touches!! Thanks for playing along over at Scrap It Girl!