Mom needed a swap card for her upline meeting. I came up with an idea in my head, but when I tried it, it was horrible! But I didn’t want to give up. She came up with her own design for the swap, so I was free to use any supply/technique on this card.

My original design was just the wheel and a punched star. The punch in my mind was much much bigger than what is actually the SU punch.  So I got out my stash of chipboard sheets and I cut a bigger star. Then I covered it with Gesso for a base and Yoyo Yellow craft ink. I had to add ribbon to give the star an anchor and help separate it from the wheel image.

The center of the punched star is filled with a yellow button, yellow beads, and some clear microbeads to fill the leftover space.

This is a combo challenge card. Julee posts awesome sketches every Monday – she calls them Mojo Monday…I love that name! This card uses her Mojo 49 Sketch. The card also fulfills the VSN challenge “Alice in Wonderland” – to use pearl-ex, twinkling H2Os, lumiere or scallops.

I was inspired by Pine’s work with Twinkling H2Os on Kraft paper. I only have a couple Verve stamps, so I chose to use the star stamps. I simply painted the H2Os onto the stamp and stamped onto black cardstock. I also broke out some glittery paper that I purchased months ago from Cut Cardstock. The white and blue paper are both shimmery. Though, the photo doesn’t show it, there is a lot of shimmer in this card.