Ten Down Fourteen to Go

Is it really ten weeks since the Through The Purple Haze challenge blog started? There have been some super challenges so far and this weeks is no exception encouraging the use of bling.

I kept the actual design really simple and then added the bling. Unfortunately due to the lousy weather recently it has been really difficult to photograph this card as I have had to use a daylight lamp and this has bleached out the image somewhat.

I used a dark blue and light frosted blue pearlised paper and plain white card to created the card. I started by cutting a nesting label in the dark blue and the white and then matted these onto the frosted blue and dark blue paper before sticking to plain white card folded to form an A5 Card blank. The Central image is a swirly Christmas tree cut with a die which was free from a magazine - lovely image but absolutely dreadful to release from the die and it took me longer to do that and several attempts before I got a decent die cut to use, than it did to make the rest of the card. Once I had a decent image I blinged it up with self adhesive blue gems and added a sentiment cut from the dark blue paper.

I am entering this into the following challenges.
http://throughthepurplehazechallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ - bling it up