Glitter & Shimmer Challenge!

Hi Ai Fans!

It's the start of a new Challenge called Glitter and Shimmer! This Challenge is right up my alley! If you know me, you know that I almost always add some sort of glitter or shimmer to my cards!

Today I am using the Girlfriends "Dancers" set (Sku# 3580). I thought their tutus would be the perfect thing to glitter up! I recently took a card class at my local Scrapbook store (Two Scrapbook Friends) on how to do a starburst background and decided that this would be a cool technique to use on this card.

I started by gathering up all my supplies and pre-coloured my image. I decided to use papers from the Julie Nutting Belle Vie 6x6 collection. I picked out 5 patterned papers from the collection, some pink glitter paper and some cardstock to layer behind everything.

 The first step is to cut the papers you will be using for the starburst into strips. I cut mine at 2x6". Then cut each piece on the diagonal with your paper trimmer.

To cut on the diagonal,  all I did was place opposite corners of the paper on the cutting line and cut through them to get a "triangle"

 Depending on the size of background you want, cut a slightly bigger piece of paper. Since my starburst is coming from the middle find the middle mark on your paper. You can make the starburst come from wherever you like such as the side or bottom.

Starting in one corner, glue your triangle with the small point in the middle. Continue gluing until you fill the circle all the way around.

As you can see, my starburst isn't perfectly in the middle. That's ok as my image will cover up the overlap.

Flip your starburst over and cut off the excess pieces.

I choose to cut the starburst out with a MFT Stitched Rectangle die. You can use any shape that you want.

 Now that your background is complete, it's time to go ahead and decorate your card base.

You might notice that I changed some of the cardstock. I wasn't happy with the original choice of the pink paper and found a different piece in my stash that actually has a bit of a shimmer to it. Perfect to go along with the Challenge theme!

Here's the finished card. I added a strip of ribbon and some pearls to finish it off. The sentiment comes with the "Dancers" set. I added Pink Taffeta Stickles to the tutus to fit with the Challenge theme! What I love about the starburst background is that you can use up those scraps that we all hoard  LOL. You can make it any size from a small background in a pocket page to a full scrapbook layout! The technique is the same but the size choice is up to you. 

Here's the inside of my cards with another sentiment from the "Dancers" set.

Copics Used:

Skin: E00, E11, E21, R20

Hair: E43, E44, E47 / YR31, YR14

Ballet suits: C1, C2, C3, C5

Shoes & accessories: R85, R89

Tutu: Pink Taffeta Stickles

I'm also entering this card into the:

Stamp Ink And Paper Challenge: Funny of Punny

Thanks for stopping by today!

Happy Stamping!

Supplies:

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