Glitter cogs with stripes

This nearly ended up in the bin.

I had die cut the cogs from both pearlised grey and a panel of black card, layered them over some double-sided adhesive sheet and added an ombre glitter effect inside the cogs. But I wasn’t very happy with the result and, try as I might, I could not come up with anything that I liked at all. I hate throwing things out though, so it sat on my desk for a day while I did some other sparkly things and pondered.

Eventually I gave up trying to add to it and, instead, took my scissors and fussy cut a black border around the cogs. Now I had something I could use.

I had a dig through my patterned paper pads and found this striped text sheet which matched nicely with the gold glitter and black card. I also found some pastel yellow vellum and stamped a sentiment on that.

The final touch — the gold micro beads at the end of the sentiment strip — are actually a fix-up. When I went to glue the sentiment in place, a bit of adhesive spread from under the cogs and, as is the way with adhesive and vellum, it looked horrible. Luckily only a tiny bit was visible, but it annoyed me so I fixed it by carefully gluing a few micro beads over it.

Supplies:

• stamps:
  Altenew – birthday greetings
• dies:
  Memory Box – gearworks border
• inks:
  Ranger – archival – jet black
• Elizabeth Craft silk microfine glitter:
  solar gold, antique silver, warm diamond
• embellishments:
  gold micro beads
• paper and card:
  Prima – paper pad – stationer’s desk
  Papermill Direct – plain – black
  Hunkydory Adorable Scorable pearly shimmer
  Anita’s – plain pastel vellum pack

Class:

Online Card Classes – Sparkle & Shine