Golden Girls!

We were overwhelmed, in a really, really, *GOOD* way, by all of the glitzy gilded goodness you glorious Belles produced this fortnight, so take a bow, every single one of you! Meanwhile here are a few gold medalists whose cards we especially loved:

Deanne of Three Trees (Paper) Creations

...used vintage images in a totally fresh and fabulous way, with lots of gold pattern, gold distressing and those awesome gold stick pins!

Lee Ann Barrett of Greyt Paper Crafts

...paired (to quote her title) "lots and lots of glitter" with a few gold foil letters in a way that made our sparkle-loving hearts swoon!

Christine Dring of Chrispy's Creations

...went completely monochomatic in a way that makes us wonder why we thought we ever needed any other colors anyway!

Once again we ask you to join us in thanking the lovely Lisa Hausmann for thinking up such a wonderful idea in the first place and then coming along to inspire us with her gorgeous cards! We'll be back at midnight with another lovely guest star who miiiiiiiight just have something a bit sketchy up her creative sleeve! ♥

Gilt Trip

We're still celebrating all things golden, gilded and glittery... won't you join us? Here are the cards we made this week:

Lisa's Other Card

Lisa says, "I wanted to really focus on the incredible die-cuts I achieved with my Cameo by backing the wreath and sentiment with simple white. The star-printed vellum - a total favourite too these days - provided subtle detail while allowing that gold to simply shine off the card."

Stephanie's Other Card

Stephanie says, "I love gold foil paper ... but I hate trying to photograph it.  I stamped my Impression Obsession sentiment in Delicata Gold Glitz ink on ivory cardstock and embossed with gold detail embossing powder.  I embellished with two different kinds of gold sequins and framed it in gold foil paper ... golden, glitzy & mailable."

Lauren's Other Card

Lauren says, "I used the very awesome Cardabilities sketch #106 to guide my design"

Baby, It's GOLD Outside!

This fortnight we're pleased and proud to have as our lovely guest star and prompt-setter the very talented Lisa Hausmann of Recklinghausen Musings! Lisa's come up with a gloriously glimmering theme, she wants to see GOLD! But we'll let her tell you herself:

"I love following scrapbook trends and incorporating them into my own style. The rush to use lashings of gold on our layouts totally had my name on it and hardly a page goes by without a little (or a lot of) gold finding its way on there! So it was only a matter of time before I'd be overloading my cards with gold too. I love how luscious and rich it looks and am thrilled to be sharing my love of gold with the Belles this week."

Since we Belles love anything shiny and sparkly, OF COURSE we were happy to oblige, and we hope you will be, too! Here's what we did:

Lisa's Card

Lisa Says, "I brought together as many gold elements as I could find in my stash to see how many shades and textures I could incorporate onto my card. Sequins, a doily, glitter paper, foil card die-cuts as well as gold letters are a beautiful contrast to the simpler background. I just let the gold do all the work. "

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "I've got quite a few golden items on my card: the diecut tree is made from doily scraps I've layered with bits of Doodlebug's awesome glitter-encrusted cardstock; the sentiment is one of those super-shiny foil peel-offs; the little velvet flowers have a touch of gold glitter; and finally the background paper in which I've framed the whole thing is a gold filigree print. I've used  Sketchbook Saturday #127 to guide the placement of all my yummy embellishments!"

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, "I pretty much went all-out-gold as well ... stamping done with Delicata Golden Glitz Ink ... gold DCWV glitter background paper ... gold sequins ... and snowflakes punched from gold foil paper.   Unfortunately there was no gold ribbon in my stash (seriously, that must be remedied), so I used blue glitter ribbon instead ... layout is from Tuesday Morning Sketches.

So grab your foil papers, your shiniest embossing powder, your golden glitter and sequins or whatever glamorously gilded ingredients make you happy! Link up before 6pm (EST) on Wednesday, September 10th. Keyword for galleries and flickr is JB:14:18.

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