Oct 12 2007
Bling…
Wohoo! I love bling! Especially on holiday designs! Yesterday’s Ways to use it Challenge, posted by my good friend Jacksonbelle (thanks Linz!), was to use Bling on your designs. My favorite form of bling is gemstone stickers. I have quite a collection! 
Making Memories, Hero Arts, Doodlebug Designs, Imaginisce, Me and My Big Ideas…they all have some great rhinestones! And I, have some of each. 
I just had to pair up this challenge with my new Flourishes Rejoice stamp set. A subtle addition of a rhinestone and some Stickles is just what my design needed.
Holly Rejoice
I paired up this beautiful Rejoice stamp with this holly patterned paper. The paper is from Basic Grey Fruitcake line! They look like they were made to go together! I love how the sentiment as the holly images around it. One stamp is all you need for both image and sentiment! This stamp is now available from Flourishes and also comes with a beautiful angel and some fabulous sentiments. I colored in my rejoice with my Copic markers. Starting light, I worked up adding darker shadows as I went. The edges were then sponged with Close to Cocoa ink and light curled up at two of the corners. The added rhinestone was adhered over top of the starburst in the O and I went over my berries with some Burgundy Stickles.
For finishing touches to my design, I pulled out my sewing machine and stitched around the card base to form a subtle frame. A little Hodgepodge hardware tab was attached to the bottom fo the image panel and then tied with a scrap of burgundy Mary Arts ribbon.
Cornish Heritage Farms Design Team Coordinator
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That is beautiful!!! I do love that stamp and really like the BG paper with it. Also adore the bling you added. TFS!
I love the golden coloring around your image. Fab Julia!
Wow, that is just beautiful! I love your card, it’s just perfect!
Beautiful!
love the subtle distressing of turning up those opposing corners, too ;^)*
Beautiful stamp and paper combo!
This is just stunning Julia! I love how you colored it! Great card!
Gorgeous! Love the golden shading!!!
Oh my word — that paper is AMAZING — it is PERFECT for that stamped image!!! This card is fabulous!!! I LOVE your coloring — it all goes together so well!!! And that paper has a familiar ring to it — I’m wondering if I might have some — gee, it sure is wonderful!!! TFS!!!
This is just so perfect - and so stunningly beautiful!
WOW! This is one STUNNING card!
So absolutely beautiful, How wonderful that you share with us. Have a great weekend..
oooooooooooooh So pretty, J! love it with the fruitcake paper!!!!
I think that stamp was MADE for the Fruitcake paper….such a perfect match! Beautiful card, Julia!
This is so beautifully colored, and I love the designer paper you’ve used! Love the ribbon and bling in the “o”
This card is amazing and looks too good to be handmade! Your work, as always, is divine. Love the Basic Grey CS — I’m using it on one of my holiday card designs, too!
Goodness, this is beautiful, Julia! I love the way you shaded around the image and added the bling. The paper is absolutely perfect with this stamp!