This week's CAS challenge is "Under the Stars" and the Happy Little Stampers August Christmas Card Challenge has the theme of "Sparkle".
The word "sparkle" immediately made me think of stars so it seemed a great opportunity to use a new-to-me SU set called Bright and Beautiful, and a new stencil from Hero Arts.
The background uses the stencil with pearlescent embossing paste with glitter sprinkled over it while wet. I didn't have a gold glitter that blended in with my glitter cs or my gold embossing paste so I mixed gold glitter with clear glitter to tone the gold down.
The large star is stamped, heat embossed, and die cut, and then topped with a smaller star die cut from gold glitter paper. Repeated the gold glitter paper for the background for the sentiment, and as luck would have it, I had the perfect sentiment with the word "sparkle" in it!
Come and play along with us at Happy Little Stampers. The "Sparkle" challenge runs until the end of August. Here's the link: