All that SPARKLES...

...is glitter, Glitter and more GLITTER!

And me thinks that this silly girl went completely OVERBOARD with it! It's hard for me to deal with crafter's block. I get so frustrated and irritated with myself when I sit down to make something and I come up with ABSOLUTELY nothing! Then I get more frustrated and then of course it doesn't help me come up with anything...

Anyway, today was one of those days...I sat down and looked around and...nothing. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Blah.

So I reached for a big, huge jar of not-so-fine glitter that I've had for over a year and I decided to play!

I started with this...

And with a little tweak, a couple light bulbs going off and my good ol' friends ALCOHOL INKS, came up with this:

Red Pepper

Stonewashed

Lettuce

Wasn't really sure what to do with them separately, so I took a little bit of each and ended up with this:

...and from there, I ended up with THIS:

So is there such a thing as glitter overboard? What on this card did I not glitter? *LOL* Another question would be, is there anything that Alcohol Ink can not re-colour? I love, Love, LOVE this stuff! From being so scared to try it out to colouring everything I can get my hands on using it! *LOL*

The card is also a very loose interpretation of Mojo Monday's sketch:

There was already a lot going on with all the glitter, so I decided that I would omit a few of the extra embelly-like things and just stuck to the basics of the sketch. Hope it hasn't deviated too far from the original sketch to not actually COUNT as a Mojo Monday sketch...LOL...when I get started in the scraproom, it's hard for me to go back to the other room to look at the other details I'm missing. I usually only remember a few distinct details of the sketch and go from there anyway...but thanks for looking!

MATERIALS
All hyperlinked products and materials are from Pez-a-Doodle Designs

Stamp: Fairybella (okay, I just made that one up, I can't actually remember the ACTUAL name right now, but I know for sure it's by) Stamping Bella
Ink: Adirondack Dye Ink
Medium: Copic Markers and Sakura Glitter Gel Pens, Alcohol Ink
Paper: Plain white cardstock (100 lb)
Embellishments: GLITTER

CURRENT MOOD: COMPLACENT CURRENTLY LISTENING TO: BENJAMIN BUTTON BLATHERING ON AND ON...

All that glitters...

...is ME!

So, minor technical difficulties with a jar of Martha Stewart glitter. I thought I had closed the lid all the way and when I picked it up and manhandled it...*POOF* I became a fluffy cloud of glittery GLITTER.

Oh. My. Gosh. So it was all over the floor, all over my feet - trying not to move so I wouldn't STEP in it, all over my clothes, my arms, my HAIR, my FACE! LOL...good thing the colour was so pretty or I'd be even more irritated!

Anywho, the cards that brought about the glittery mass that is me! I was on Marti's blog and had to try out the sketch she used from http://www.iheart2stamp.com!

And of course, this is ME you're reading, so it's going to be a mass photo posting...LOL, grab a drink...

Let's see...what did I use:

The flowers are from my LSS
I used liquid glass/dimensional glaze to draw swirls on the flower and then I glittered all over it with Martha Stewart glitter. The cardstock was Cuttlebug SMOOSHED (à la Marti - http://www.pezadoodle.com/) following her tutorial and using her Brilliance Dew Drop ink pad. The swirly flourish is brought to you by yours truly, an original made with custom coloured seed beads (of COURSE using Marti's alcohol ink...LOL...I'm starting to see a pattern here!) and pliable wire.

SIDE NOTE: Marti, those flourishes were actually packaged up to be on it's way to you tomorrow, but I used them instead. LOL...I'll send you more! *HUGS*

CURRENT MOOD: GLITTERY CURRENTLY LISTENING TO: TAKE A BOW - RIHANNA