It's Photo Inspiration week at Just Us Girls Challenge, and I can never resist stars as a subject for a card.
I'm never sure quite how a card will come together. Sometimes it's quickly, and just as I imagined it. Sometimes it takes a lot of twists and turns and ends up totally differently than I anticipated. This card evolved. I started with the Memory Box stencil and Barn Door Distress Ink.
Originally the stencil was the size of a card front, and I tried a variety of things to add the black and white stripes and polka dots from the star banner in the photograph. I finally cut the stencil panel down, added some striped paper from My Favorite Things behind it, and attached it to some fun foam for some dimension before adding it to the black card base. I die cut the little polka-dot stars (Simon Says "Holiday Shapes) from another pack of paper from My Favorite Things, and added them to the larger stars.
There are three tiny black rhinestones for some added interest, and several of the stars got a coat of Wink of Stella glitter. Sadly none of the sparkle shows up in the photographs. The sentiment seemed a perfect match for the card and came from the "Sparkle and Shine" set by W+9.
We're enjoying a very warm Sunday . . . hopefully not the last, but surely the last for the next couple of weeks. Lots of chilly, rainy weather in the forecast. I have a couple of big indoor projects to tackle, so it may just be a good thing, after all.
