Celebrating Mini Brads & Spangles

Last night I wanted to try something new that just came in the mail some Queen Co Sprinkle Mini Brads.

I used the Miss Priss ones as centers to the Funky Flower Power Sequine Mix I picked up at Wal mart. They are metalic purple pink and Irridescent, they caught some gleam from the flash. They turned out really cute and are much better IRL. I used the Botanicals paper pkg for the green and Pinks, and SU Barely Banana for the yellows. The reason It took so long to get this card done is I got stumped on the image to be mounted on the square. I am not convinced I am totally happy with the cupcake, but for now it will do. Lets just say I found where my stamp sets were really lacking.

My SU Demo brought her new stampsets and Ink colors for me to play with. We also worked with the white flowers a bit. I will be using some of them in the future. She also brought me this cupcake from an old hostess set to use on my card. I wanted its colors to be a little muted to the Pixie Pink and Old Olive so I chose mellow Moss, Pretty in Pink and Barely Banana markers to color the image. Then I highlighted some shine on the frosting and the flame with my stardust gel pen. The squares and cupcakes are also mounted on Dimensionals.

I used the Bloom Dots Embossing folder in my cuttlebug to Emboss the background, and the brushed Brillance moonlight white dew drop over the whole surface. I thought the flowers matched the sequins well. I add some snipets of ribbon in an Olive and Bright Pink gingham. The edges of the yellow were dragged on a Pixie Pink Stamping pad after trimming the edges with Scalloped scissors. I stamped parts of a swirl from my Autumn leaves set on the Barely banana base. I hope you enjoy the card, I know its not my best work, but it does look much better in real life. Now I need to go play with the images I stamped and the stamp set I convinced my demo to loan me...until I order it.

Until Later ....Happy Stamping!

Psst...I included the links to ALLTHAT SCRAPS, because 1. I love that she has free shipping for US orders of 10$ or more, and 2. It is the only place I have found these mini sprinkle brads. they are 1/8" diameter.