Beautiful World - Sparkle

Welcome to November's Beautiful World Tour, brought to you by Flourishes! Each month the team presents a themed blog hop, hosted by our group of international designers... we are literally spread out all over the globe!  At the heart of our projects is the idea of truly showcasing beauty in card making – whether it just be in a beautifully colored image, a fabulous way to incorporate an embellishment or a new twist on a card layout.

 If you just happened on the blog hop today because you're a regular reader of my blog, and you'd like to view the entire hop, you can start back at the Flourishes Blog - you'll find a full list of participants there, and all the details you need. If you're already hopping and you arrived here from Kathy's blog, you're doing just fine.

This month our theme is the Beauty of Sparkle!

I chose to make my focal panel sparkle and shine by using shimmery paints! I stamped the peonies from the Garden Picks set several times on watercolor paper, then painted the panel with Twinkling H20s, which are a shimmery watercolor paint. After that layer was dry, I painted over the whole panel with Shimmerz paints, which are full of sparkly mica powder. It was fun working out the gradient color from yellow to deep orange.

The sentiment is from the Tag Lines set.

Leave comments for all our designers and you could WIN A FREE FLOURISHES STAMP SET!! Comments will be accepted until the end of the month, and a random comment will be chosen by one of our designers - but we're not telling which one! The more comments you leave, the better your chance of winning will be.


From here you'll be traveling on to Canada to visit the lovely and talented.........

Thanks for hopping with us today!