Glitter Me Silly

Yaaaayyyyy!  It’s time for the brand new Winter 2015 release from Avery Elle – woohoo!  You should have arrived here from the wonderful Karolyn Loncon’s blog, Paper Therapy but if not you can back to the beginning HERE!!

This is such a fabulous release with 9 new stamp sets and loads of new ELLE-ments (dies) too.    I’m so excited to be introducing a couple more stamp designs to the Avery Elle inventory in this release and today I’m featuring a set called Mardi Gras.  I wanted a masquerade-themed set that would let me go to town with embellishments and bling!  When it comes to Mardi Gras there’s no such thing as too much bling!!  You can decorate the mask with the stamped images or of course add your embellishments of choice such as rhinestones, feathers, sequins, ribbons, glitter etc, etc.

My first card is so sparkly in real life but of course, trying to capture that in a photograph is impossible (for me anyway) – you’ll just have to take my word for it!!  The set includes a string of beads so I first created my background by stamping and heat embossing a curtain of beads using Silver Tinsel powder.  I die cut a banner in silver glitter paper and my mask, ribbon and flourished from white (which I stamped and embossed also).  I painted the mask with a solution of Perfect Pearls (in Perfect Pearl!) to give a silky appearance and when dry added some rhinestones (the kind that come in a strips)!

My next card is just a bit more colourful!  I stamped the mask and coloured it with Copic markers (I added the diamond details with the little images also included in the set).  I adorned it with a Fleur De Lys and then added some Glossy Accents for some shine.  Again I used a variety of Avery Elle inks to create my beaded background and mounted the mask onto the Scalloped Pierced Heart dies also from the new release.

Your next stop on the hop is the gorgeous and talented Heather Campbell – enjoy the trip!

I hope you like this set as much as I do and I can’t wait to see all the different mask designs you come up with using this set.

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