Today I am joining in a Sale-a-bration blog hop with some very talented ladies from the ILWS forum. If you have joined me from Dawn’s blog a warm welcome to my website, whilst you are here do have a look around, there are lots of samples, tutorials and inspiration, the tabs at the top and links on the right hand panel will lead the way for you.
All the samples on this blog hop are featuring Sale-a-abration stamp sets available for free with a £45 Stampin’ Up! order. I have used the Whimsical Words stamp set for my cards today and at the end there is a mini tutorial. The colour combination for my cards is Close to Cocoa and Pretty in Pink, I have embellished the cards with the Pretties kit.
This first card uses the heart from Love you Much stamp set, stamped in Rose Red onto Whisper White card and coloured with markers before cutting out and raised up on dimensionals. A little paper piercing in the corners and the heart is cut through using a hat pin studded with pearls and a little Pretty in Pink taffeta ribbon.
The card below is using Fresh cuts and decorated with 2 flowers from the pretties kit, the first flower is coloured using a Close to Cocoa marker and the second is seriously glittered……I love, love glitter!
This is a pretties white fabric flower, transformed with Stampin’ Up! Fine Cosmo glitter, here it is in close up! Very Sparkly !!
Glitter flower tutorial
You will need
Fine Cosmo Glitter
Pretties kit
Crystal effects
A small dish to hold the glitter
Squeeze the crystal effects all over the flower, it needs to be well covered as shown in the next 2 pictures.
Put the flower crystal effects side down, this is messy, press down hard into the glitter check for any bald spots and press down again, do use tweezers if you don’t like to be gluey and sparkly……..me I love it!
Then put it to one side to dry, make sure it’s a non-stick surface, I use a teflon sheet, but baking parchment will work too, you will know when it’s ready the flower will feel a little crispy!!
Below are 5 flowers coated using each of the colours in the Fine Cosmo glitter kit aren’t they beautiful, a little glitter goes a very long way brilliant value at £12.95.
Thank you for spending time with my, do come back again soon, and now off to your next stop Jo’s Blog have fun!
Happy Stampin’
Amanda
Gorgeous cards, love the glittered flower and the colour combination is awesome too….
Gorgeouscards! thanks for taking part, and thanks for the tutorial!
Loving these cards and a fab tutorial too thankyou Amanda….
lovely and a tutorial as well – TFS
Both beautiful cards Amanda! I love the glittered flowers!
Teri xx
Great tutorial Amanda – thank you. Will definitely be blinging up some flowers soon
Fabulous creations and wow now I NEED The gliter lol. Enjoy the rest of the day.
Amanda, Loving those glittered flowers. Will be giving that a go. Fab tutorial, thanks for sharing.
Carole x
Really love the heart card especially
Great tutorial
these are both so pretty and a fab tutorial too – thanks for that, must give it a go!
Victoria
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Fab cards Amanda! And great tutorial as well – gonna have to try that one!
lovin it Amanda and thankyou for showing us how :O)
Gorgeous cards Amanda. I have thoroughly enjoyed the ‘blog hop’ – so much inspiration and talent.
Oooh – LOVE those glittery flowers Amanda – I might just have to go and get glittery this evening!
lovely Amanda. Glad to see you used the glitter and not me.
Emma xx
Gorgeous cards and fabulous tutorial. TFS
Gorgeous cards Amanda – love the glittered flowers !
Love the glitter flowers, thanks for the tutorial :o)
Beautiful cards and love those glitter flowers, great idea for a touch of bling!
Carole, Australia
I love the bling flowers,the cards are really pretty too. Thanks for sharing, lots of inky hugs from Charmaine 🙂
Thanks Amanda for the ispiration and the tutorial. I am enjoying this ‘blog hopping’ and have the chance to see some beautiful work. Many thanks
I can see some serious glittering coming my way, I’ll sparkle through Spring, lol. Thanks for the tutorial, the results are stunning.
Sara xx
love the glittery flowers Amanda, thanks for the instructions
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