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Let It Shine course

 I love adding bling and sparkles to scrapbook pages, so adding it to cards is just as satisfying.  For the Let it Shine course with Altenew Academy, I really enjoyed seeing all of the ways Carissa used to demonstrate how you can make a card shine.  Out of the various classes in the course and all of the cool techniques, I have to say I loved all of them.  

I had a difficult time choosing which one I wanted to use for my assignment after I had made a few.  Eventually, I went with the coloring page I did a few weeks back while I was in Canada.  For the card, I used a few bling products.  The gold sequins, gold thread, Brushed Gold cardstock and some gold shimmer splatter.  I fussy cut the floral image out and added some Altenew instant dimension foam tape to the back and lined it up on a card panel that I embossed with the Dreamy Tiles folder and cut to 5 1/4 inches by 4 inches, adding some craft foam to the back.  I mounted it on Brushed Gold cardstock and then adhered it to a card base.   I used the Circle Greetings:Hug die as my sentiment but trimmed it down to fit the space next to and over the flowers and used some craft foam for added dimension.  The thread was from my stash.  It was from some sewing notions my grandmother gave me many years ago.  Splattered some gold shimmer onto the white embossed area, then added some sequins to it.  








I made another card that was completely different in that it only has clear embossing powder to make in shine.  It is somewhat of a clean and simple card but I loved the result.










 

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