I borrowed my friend Loll's Twinkling Tree stamp recently and stamped several panels with it. When I saw the new Addicted to CAS challenge "Sparkle", I decided that I could use gemstones on each of the twinkling lights on the tree. Little did I realize it would use about a packet and a half of gemstones and would take a very long time to add each little gemstone. Even using my very fine-pointed tweezers, my hands ached at the end of it.
Luckily I'd stamped it on Gina K heavyweight cs (and used the same as the cardbase) as all those gemstones need a heavy cs!
The tree and sentiment are stamped in brown and I used a matching brown cs as a border. The gemstones are from Recollections - they come in a packet containing both red and dark red in three different sizes that nicely fit the little circles on the stamp. And I like the mix of the two tones of red.
It's an unusual colour scheme for me - outside of my normal colour choices - but I like the end result, and it sure does sparkle in real life!
Date: Monday, October 12, 2015 GMT Views: 2150
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Mon, Oct 12, 2015 @ 10:25 PM
This is really Spectacular!!! That tree is so graceful and SO Gorgeous with all the Bling! I want to make one just like it so I can prop it up somewhere to look at many times during the day. Beautiful!