Thank You With A Little Glam

Wow - talk about bling!!! 

 Believe it or not all of this striping is made from white satin ribbon that I 

inked and attached to cardstock.

The inspiration for this card came from

 The Shabby Tea Room's Just Pretty Challenge.

  You had to use the colors in the photo AND include Stripes and A Flower.

  Since I didn't have any stripped paper to match the colors, I simply

 MADE my own.  

The idea for the Thank You was from the

  Pixie Studio's challenge

 (that I missed by not posting this card yesterday when I was supposed to - duh!)

I used 1/8" scor tape (scor-pal.com) in between the ribbon and added the glitter. 

 So easy and it stays on so much better than glue.

All this ribbon (striping) certainly works for the

FOST (Friends of Speedy TV Challenge)  #56 where they wanted 

Creative Uses for Ribbon

 (wonder how often it is used to make striped paper?).  

The ribbon also worked for  Paper Pretties ribbon challenge.  

Too bad I missed that one too - (wow) -

 BUT,

 it works for their new challenge to

 Try A New Technique. 

 AND, 

while visiting their site I found out I won Challenge 241 and get some

 goodies from their store. 

 YES!!! 

 I'm a happy little crafter!!!

Just as soon as I finish this post I bet ya'll know where I'm headed.

A little "dry" embossing here with a Cuttlebug folder.

 The sentiment was embossed with white powder and then embossed again  with glitter.

  This was a great tip since I only own 3 colors of embossing powder and was limited to what I could do.  This little tidbit of info allowed me to use my existing inventory of "stuff" to a much greater extent.   I just found this technique on Gink K's site and had to try it. You can see the video here 

I die cut the flowers out of white cardstock, inked them with the same Memento Angel Pink that I used on the ribbon and the card  and added some Flamingo Liquid Pearls(rangerink.com)

Assembled the flower and added more liquid pearls to the center of it and put it all together.

Challenges that I am entering with this card (and sometimes, specifically WHY) are:

Penny's Paper Crafty Wet or Dry Embossing Challenge #111

Aud Sentiments Bingo Challenge (I went straight across the top - Die Cut, "Thank" and "You")

Bunny Zoe's Anything Goes

Digi Darla's DDC #46 - Feeling Sentimental

Papertake Weekly - Tie Up You Your Loose Ends (A Bow)

Top Tip Tuesday - Challenge 24 - Lavishly Luscious Layers

Catch The Bug - January Bingo 

(I went across the top - Designer Paper, Sentiment and Pearls (liquid pearls for me)

Creative Craft Challenges2 - Challenge 2 - Bling It Up

A Card A Day 

Moving Along With The Times - Bling It On

Tsunami Rose - Anything Goes

 (By the Way - I just won one of their challenges too - 

I'm going to get one of their beautiful journals that I have been 

REALLY - REALLY wanting. 

 Thanks so much!

  I LOVE your stuff!)

and last but never least - 

Simple Salutations  on MFPSpeedy TV - Challenge 29 (Use A Flower) -

 this is a site for clean and simple cards, but even with all the bling on this one -

 it still fits that category perfectly,

 I think.

Wishing you many blessings today! 

 Prayers going out to a beautiful friend 

who I went to school with pretty much from

 kindergarten until we graduated together,

 Natalie,

 who is having surgery today!