Star of Light for a Paper Players Sketch PP318

This week at The Paper Players, the fabulous Jaydee has a sketch challenge for us and it's a great one!  Take a look:

 Next to color challenges, sketches are my favorite.  I love having a starting point for my design...as well as a little freedom to interpret the sketch my own way (wink).  So, here's my card:

 

I did take the liberty of flipping the sketch and placing the focal point on the left side instead of the right.  It seemed to work better with the sentiment I had in mind.  The Star of Light stamp set and coordinating framelits are amazing!  I love that swirling trail of stardust...here I stamped it in Night of Navy on the Smoky Slate card base.  

 Here you can see the star I created with two framelits from the set.  The base layer is silver glimmer paper and the top layer is Night of Navy cardstock.  I adhered them together with some glue dots and swirled some silver thread behind.  Oh, and that strip of clear acetate is pretty neat too--Patterned Acetate sheets from the Holiday Catalog.  The print can be use on either side depending on whether you want silver or gold!  Sorry the pic is a little too washed out to see the detail in the acetate--it was too sunny!

I stamped the swirling stars on the inside in Smoky Slate ink and saved the Night of Navy for the sentiment.  When stamping on the inside, I like to use the lightest colors of my design for background stamping so as not to detract from the sentiment.

Be sure to check out the rest of the inspiration from The Paper Players design team...I know you will find lots of beautiful projects to inspire you to play along.  Join in the fun....just do so before our challenge closes on Friday, October 28th at Noon (PST).  Thanks for stopping by, friends!

The Paper Players Design Team

Claire Broadwater

Jaydee

Joanne James

Laurie Schmidt

LeAnne Pugliese

Nance Leedy

Sandy Mathis

Linda Callahan

Hannelie Bester

Colleen Begley