A Pretty Fine Shoe!

Hello my blogger friends

Well this card has taken me almost all day to make!

I knew what I wanted to do – doing it was a challenge though

But I got there in the end.

I was itching to use the fabulous new stamps I bought from www.chloescreativecards.co.uk

And also some fab super thick high shine chunky glitter

And use them I did!

I just hope the person this has been made for likes it as much as I do....

So materials for this card I used ….

Heat mat to work on and protect your surface – I always use it...

white plain 8x8 card

2 sheets burgundy 8x8 scalloped textured card

2 sheets smooth white card

Stamps – DEC06 large shoe, DEC08 Floral scroll, birthday sentiment

silver sparkle WOW embossing powder, black embossing powder

Fran-tage silver halo mix glitter

Martha Stewart Cherish corner punch

purple glittered flowers

grand nestability shapes

purple organza ribbon

Sticky pads

Eazi Score Board & tool

Tonic 8” guillotine

Scissors

Tweezers

Shaping tool from www.dimensionstamps.com

Foam shaping mat – stamping mat or even a mouse mat

To make the card …

I folded the card to create the 8x8 card blank, then stuck a full sheet of the burgundy scallop edged card using double sided tape and ensuring it was central to leave the white border all around.

I used a fancy nestie to die cut my shape from white card then cut another a few sizes smaller.

Next I used the floral scroll stamp and a versamark ink pad and stamped the design around the edges of the largest piece first then sprinkled with the silver glitter embossing powder and heated.

I repeated on the 2^nd white piece.

So now I used double side tape on the back of the largest white piece and stuck it centrally onto the burgundy card.

Another piece of burgundy card was cut down to size – I removed the scalloped edges – then punched the corners with the Martha Stewart Cherish corner punch.

Large sticky pads were then used to attach the card to the white embossed piece.

The 2^nd piece of white embossed card also had large sticky pads over the back and this was placed onto the burgundy.

As I had some scraps of white and burgundy I used some smaller nesties to die cut a burgundy mat for the white die cut to fit on.

The burgundy panel was covered with sticky pads and stuck in the right hand corner of the card...

I stamped the birthday message onto the white piece, ran around the edges with a pastel pink pro marker then added sticky pads to the back and stuck onto the burgundy.

And on to the shoe – I stamped the shoe 3 times with versamark onto smooth white card then sprinkled with the WOW silver glitter embossing powder and heated – I cut one shoe out and popped to a side, then cut the heal and toe front from another just inside the embossed lines, covered with versamark then dipped into black embossing powder and heated – I did this 3 times to give a high gloss finish then added tiny black sticky pads and added to the full shoe.

Next I cut out the top of the shoe from one of the spare embossed shoes, squirted some cosmic shimmer PVA onto my heat sheet, sprayed with water then mixed, next I used a fine paint brush to cover this shoe top with glue then covered with the beautiful chunky silver halo glitter and set aside to dry.

Once it dried I was able to cover the back with sticky pads and carefully position this onto the shoe itself.

WOW

To finish I stuck a purple glitter flower embellishment onto the centre of the shoe top and also onto the top right corner of the birthday message.

I tied a bow using purple organza ribbon and stuck that to the top left corner.

And that's the card all done!

At least next time I go to make something like this I know what works and what doesn't so that will save a huge amount of time!

As I said at the start – I do hope the person this is for likes it as much as I do – but I am sure she will!

Catch you again tomorrow – same place folks

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